Cricket World Cup 2023: Rohit, Kohli will need support from other batters in big games

Five matches, five successful chases and India are right on top. All looks good, the bowling has been on top with every bowler contributing.

But the batting has been set up by two players — Rohit Sharma who has given India flying starts in four games and Virat Kohli finishing off the games in style.

Yes KL Rahul has made significant contributions with the bat along with Rohit and Kohli. But I am afraid the rest of the players like Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer have not gone on to play one long innings.

India are winning now, but what happens when the team lose both Rohit and Kohli early in a big match?

India were going the same way in the 2019 World Cup where Rohit scored five hundreds and Kohli scored five half-centuries.

But both of them failed in the low-scoring semifinal against New Zealand as the team suffered a painful defeat.

Even in the 2017 Champions Trophy final against Pakistan, the top two of Indian batting fell early as India went down to Pakistan after dominating every game in that tournament.

On Sunday, India was tested against the Kiwis and would have struggled had Kohli not finished off the game.

While everything is looking good for now with five wins in five matches, that's the only area of concern for the team management.

So Rohit's men still need to few things right to emulate MS Dhoni’s side which famously won the World Cup in 2011.