England fast bowler Mark Wood on Tuesday said taming Rohit Sharma with judicious use of short-pitched balls will figure highly in his and the team's plans to edge past a dominant-at-home India in the upcoming five-match Test series.
The first Test is scheduled to begin here from Thursday, and Wood said the nature of pitches, even if slow, could abet the strategy. "Yeah, the conditions will be assessed once I am out there, and bumps (bouncers) are rarely bought out here.
But the pitch sometimes can be two-paced and, if it is slow, it can help (bowlers) because the batters will be through with the shot," Wood said in a press conference. "Someone like Rohit, I know how good he is on the short ball.
That doesn't necessarily mean that I wouldn't bowl a bouncer. It just means that I'll have to be really accurate with it and bowl at the right time," he added.