India completed a 3-0 whitewash of the West Indies in the T20 series on Sunday with a six-wicket win over the visitors in the final clash at Chennai.
It completed a comprehensive home outing for the hosts who captured all three of the Test, ODI and T20 series against the visitors.
As dominant as India might have been across all three formats against the Windies, stand-in skipper Rohit Sharma believes the upcoming full tour of Australia will be a different level of challenge altogether. However, the limited-overs stalwart believes the confidence India take from their wins over West Indies will serve them well Down Under.
India are set to play three T20s, four Tests and three ODIs in their tour of Australia which gets underway on Friday.
“Australia is always challenging when it comes to going out there and performing. Every time you go there, you are tested as a player, as an individual and as a team as well,” the right-handed batsman stated.
“I think we have got to be at our best and when you win a series like this and when you play like that in the tournament, you are high on confidence. It’s all about taking that confidence to Australia and doing what we did as a team.
“Australia will be a different ball game I completely understand. But I think the things that we have been doing as a team and as a player, we keep repeating it. The best teams in the world keep repeating those performances. It will be important for us that we start fresh. Not think about what we have done in the past.”
Rohit expects Australia to be a completely different challenge.
The Australia tour also sees Rohit make a return to India’s Test squad after he was ignored for the tour of England as well as the home series against West Indies.
The 31-year-old though, is not looking too far ahead and is instead concentrating on the T20 series which will get underway at Brisbane on November 21.
“I am someone who doesn’t think too far ahead. So I am focusing on the T20 series first. Of course, the Test match is something that I was looking forward to for a long time and it will be nice to go out there and represent India in Tests, but we want to win the T20s first,” Rohit explained.
“The last time we played a T20 format in Australia we won 3-0,” he added.
The Test series between the two sides will get underway after the completion of the three T20s with the first match set to get underway at the Adelaide Oval on December 6.
