Indian Cricket team's batting coach Sanjay Bangar has backed Rohit Sharma for the No. 3 batting position in Tests. Talking to BCCI.TV, the former all-rounder said that he has been spending a lot of time with the Mumbai batsman in the nets and is hopeful that Rohit will be able to convert the starts at the top of the order. Excerpts from the interview: Happy with the way things panned out in the warm-up match? Yes, surely. I think all of the batsmen got two decent innings and this is what you basically want after a long layoff. I don’t term 30 days as a long layoff but in modern-day times, that’s a big enough gap for the players to be away from the game. So it’s good for the boys to be back playing three-day format and it is an ideal preparation going into the first Test match. Are you concerned that Rohit didn’t spend enough time in the middle? Rohit is an experienced campaigner. He has been on the international scene for a long period and he is hitting a lot of balls in the nets. So whatever absence of time that he has not been able to spend out in the middle, we are spending time in the nets and he is hitting a lot of balls, he is batting really well. It’s just a matter of time that he gets a decent start and looks to convert that into a big one. What are your views of him batting at 3? I think what he definitely brings at No. 3 is the flair factor. With the kind of cricket that this team is looking to play wherein we are wanting to at least go past 300 on each batting day, that’s where somebody of his calibre can chip in and contribute in that manner. Your views on the cheap dismissals? Virat got out driving? As far as Virat is concerned, he did go and play in the India A game. He wanted to spend some time out in the middle. Again, for a player of his class and experience, he wouldn’t really read too much into these dismissals. I think he is very geared up. He is doing all his preparations in his own normal way, whatever routines that he has set for himself, he is following that really well. Again, looking forward to some brilliant innings that we expect from Virat. No effect at all, manner of dismissals? No, obviously we believe that in life we learn every day and obviously these innings must have taught each of the individual batters some lessons wherein they would have approached and assessed the kind of wickets we are going to encounter, the pace of the wickets and which are the shots which you are going to go and apply in the Test matches. I think those are definitely the learnings the batsmen have derived from these two innings. Crucial for the bowlers to chip in with the bat? I think there is a lot of value in the lower order. If you look at our lower order, Ashwin and Harbhajan have both got two Test hundreds. We all know what Bhuvneshwar is capable of because of the kind of innings and contributions that he made in England which is considered to be the most testing of conditions. There is a lot of value to be unearthed and definitely it was a clear indication that we are looking for contributions from the lower order as well and we do have a lot of faith in them and we are hoping they will deliver in crunch situations for the team. Five batsmen and six, what kind of different mental approach? At the end of the day, the individuals have to have their own benchmarks and look to compete with those benchmarks. Where they fit into the scheme of things as far as the team plans are concerned does also matter. But at the end of the day, there are 11 players and every individual has a particular role to play. And we will be more than happy that the chosen 11 for that particular day, for that particular match, if everyone comes and does his own thing well, does justice to the role that we have assigned to them, we will be more than happy. A word on Saha’s role? He is just at the start of his career. We need to be patient with him, give him time to settle. He is filling the boots, the huge void left by somebody like a Mahendra Singh Dhoni. But again, I think playing with six batsmen and he is a proven performer – he does bat really well, he is quite capable and versatile, good player against spin bowling. I think with time, he will get more comfortable in this position and we are making all the efforts to ensure he clicks in that particular slot. He has put in some fabulous performances for his state, been one of the mainstays for Bengal as also for East Zone, he has chipped in really well. The beauty about him is that whenever the chips are down, he comes out and delivers. We can only go back to Sydney or the Adelaide Test, he did really play well. It’s just that he couldn’t convert those starts of 30 or 35 into match-winning innings. Even at Adelaide, he was looking to take the match along with Virat. I think we need to give some time for him to mature and get accustomed to the kind of pressure that somebody like a wicketkeeper-batsman faces in a Test format.