Hindi → English transcript

Flexibility is necessary, but that doesn't mean you send an opener to bat at number seven.

Or make Hardik Pandya open — that doesn't happen.

Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma have only opened in the last seven or eight years.

If a hittable ball comes his way, he plays the shot and will hit it hard.

Number four and number five may move up or down — there's nothing wrong with that.

Some flexibility within the team is necessary.

And when we joined the team, our positions changed as well — you can see my batting position moved from the top to the bottom.

So we, the youngsters, have batted all the way from the top to the bottom of the order.

So he's talking about flexibility.

It's not that you just send him to bat at number eight and push the number-eight player up.

We don't do that nonsense — a bit of movement up and down in the team is necessary.