Rohit Sharma in motion throughout an IPL match. With the defeats towards Australia in the World Test Championship and World Cup burning his thoughts, Rohit Sharma nourishes the dream of playing in the upcoming editions in 2025 and 2027.
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With the harm of India’s defeats to Australia in the World Test Championship and the World Cup finals nonetheless burning his thoughts, skipper Rohit Sharma nourishes the dream of playing in these tournaments’ upcoming editions in 2025 and 2027.
The 36-year-old Rohit was a part of India’s 2007 T20 World Cup victory, however he counts the 50-over showpiece as the actual stuff.
“I am playing well at the moment and I am thinking of continuing for a few more years. I really want to win that World Cup. The 50-over World Cup is the actual World Cup. We have grown up watching the 50-over World Cup.
“There is the World Test Championship final taking place at Lord’s in 2025. Hopefully, we are going to make it there,” Rohit said in a YouTube chat show – Breakfast With Champions – that was also attended by British pop singer Ed Sheeran.
Six months have passed since India succumbed to Australia in the World Cup final at Ahmedabad, but Rohit found it tough to come to terms with that defeat.
“It was taking place in India. We performed effectively till that final. When we gained the semis, I assumed, we have been only one step away from it (victory). I assumed, what’s that one factor that may make us lose that final, and actually, nothing got here to my thoughts,” he said.
The Mumbaikar eventually found a shelter in that ready answer – one bad day on the field.
“We’d ticked all of the bins, we have been playing good cricket, confidence was there. But that was one unhealthy day and the Aussies had an excellent day. I do not assume we performed unhealthy cricket in that final,” he noted.
However, Rohit found some solace in India’s resounding 4-1 Test series win over England recently at home.
But the Indian captain said the series was not a cakewalk as the eventual scoreline suggested.
“You would possibly enter the sector with a plan, however whenever you see issues transferring otherwise, you need to change it.
“When we played recently against England, we came across a different team, they were playing cricket differently. Each batter came and challenged us. So, we had to change our mindset,” he stated.
Rohit didn’t discover it amusing that the visiting groups have a tricky time on Indian shores, and in reality, he equated himself with their travails.
“It is difficult to win away from home. They make life difficult when you are away. It is the same for other countries as well because it is not easy when they come to India. You want to take advantage of that (home conditions),” he defined.
It introduced the discuss to his favorite second in Test cricket, and the elegant right-hander picked his maiden hundred as probably the most cherished one.
Batting at No. 6, Rohit made a 301-ball 177 towards the West Indies at Kolkata, which was additionally the farewell sequence of Sachin Tendulkar.
“India is all about scoring that hundred and then the crowd erupts. My first hundred was in a Test match at Kolkata. It was Sachin Tendulkar’s 199th Test, so the stadium was packed, some 70000 people in the stadium. Probably it was (the best moment),” he added.
‘IPL has grown a lot’ =============== Rohit, who has not missed a season of the Indian Premier League since its inception in 2008, stated now there was no weak group in the league, a outstanding shapeshifting from its early years.
“IPL has grown so much in the last decade or so and every team is now competitive. I don’t think there is any weak team in the IPL. It is something like EPL first division where any team can beat any team.
“But it was not like that when it began off. Now, there may be a lot know-how concerned, persons are conscious what gaps are to be stuffed, in order that they get the precise gamers from the public sale and so forth,” he offered.
Rohit also shared his memory of playing alongside the legendary Shane Warne in the IPL.
“I used to play towards Shane when he was main Rajasthan Royals and I used to be with (now-extinct) Deccan (Chargers). He obtained very good cricketing brains, and he thinks about cricket in a special angle.
“Adam Gilchrist was his teammate (in Australia), and he played for us (Chargers) and he used to tell us how good he was. Even while commentating he (Warne) used to predict what’s going to happen in the next two or three balls.”
