Rohit Sharma's assurance to super-subs paying off

Rohit Sharma was asked about a batter of Shreyas Iyer's calibre warming the bench at the Eden Gardens, he admitted it was very hard on the fellow Mumbaikar not making it to the playing XI. The new all-format skipper, however, made sure that the 27-year-old got a look-in as soon as BCCI decided to give Team India regulars Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant a break from the tough bio-bubble and rest them for the T20 leg of the series against Sri Lanka. Also, the absence of KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav and Deepak Chahar provided Rohit the perfect opportunity to try out the fringe players.

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This was India's 12th consecutive win in T20Is. India joined Afghanistan as the only other Test playing nation to record 12 consecutive T20I wins. India's victory follows their 6-0 limited-overs romp against West Indies in the previous home series earlier this month.

On Sunday, after completing a 3-0 whitewash of the islanders, Rohit stood behind the super-subs with an assurance that they shouldn't feel threatened about their spots in the playing eleven. "We do understand at times that we've held back but it's important to tell the guys that you don't have to worry about your positions in the team. We want to fill whatever gaps we do have. We just want to move forward," Rohit said.

Even the players who weren't preferred for white ball cricket for quite some time were given a chance to prove themselves after Rohit took over, and that's been the hallmark of his captaincy.

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The home side went into Sunday's affair with a batsman short, and lost skipper Rohit