India skipper Rohit Sharma firmly believes that their “time will come” to win an ICC trophy, a milestone they’ve been chasing for the previous decade.
India’s captain, Rohit Sharma, stays assured that their long-sought ICC trophy is inside attain, regardless of a decade-long pursuit. The disappointment of the latest World Cup 2023 last loss to Australia prolonged India’s ICC title drought to 10 years, their final triumph being the Champions Trophy in 2013 below MS Dhoni’s management.
Speaking to JioCinema on the sidelines of the opening Test towards England, Rohit expressed optimism, saying, ‘The final three years have been nice. Apart from securing ICC trophy finals, we’ve triumphed in each different side. Winning is a mindset, and I imagine our time will come. We have to concentrate on the current, not dwell on the previous, as we can not change it. Our collective focus is on the long run; we’re enjoying our hearts out.’
After being runners-up within the 2014 T20I World Cup, India confronted semi-final exits within the 2015 ODI World Cup, the 2016 T20 World Cup, and the 2019 ODI World Cup. The agony endured with defeats within the finals of the 2017 Champions Trophy and a semi-final loss within the 2022 T20 World Cup. Additionally, India misplaced the finals of the primary two World Test Championship cycles.
Rohit Sharma, recognized for his aggressive captaincy, emphasised his method to management, stating, ‘I aimed to instill a change, encouraging gamers to play with freedom. I needed to take away the obsession with statistics from this crew. Numbers are overrated; in India, we speak loads about them. I scored 5 lots of within the 2019 World Cup, however we nonetheless misplaced. The lots of do not matter. I could replicate on them 20 years later after retirement, however what we wanted was the trophy. Individual accomplishments are secondary; crew sports activities are about profitable trophies, not about private milestones’, he added.
