India captain Rohit Sharma is adamant that, after ten years of trying, their “time will come” to lift the coveted ICC trophy.
India’s captain, Rohit Sharma, is adamant that their “time will come” to lift the coveted ICC trophy, a goal they have been pursuing for the previous ten years. India’s search for an ICC championship has now lasted ten years, with their recent World Cup 2023 final defeat to Australia. Under MS Dhoni’s captaincy, the team’s previous triumph was at the Champions Trophy in 2013. “The previous three years have been fantastic. With the exception of winning the ICC trophy finals, we have achieved everything,” Rohit remarked to JioCinema prior to their first Test match against England.
That’s one task we haven’t been able to complete, but I believe the right moment will arrive. We only need to have a positive outlook and remember that the past is something you cannot change.
“What comes next is something you can influence, which is why we are all concentrating on it. We are giving it everything we have. Following their 2014 T20I World Cup semifinal finish, the squad had to vacate the 2015, 2016 T20, and 2019 ODI World Cups in the semi-finals.
Losses in the 2017 Champions Trophy final and the 2022 T20 World Cup semifinal only made the suffering worse.
Additionally, they were defeated in the first two World Test Championship cycle finals.
Not a game of numbers
Sharma, who is renowned for his forceful stroke play, went on to discuss his philosophy of captaincy.
“Players going out there and playing with a lot of freedom is something I wanted to bring about.” I intended to remove this team’s emphasis on statistics related to cricket.
“We overvalue numbers. We certainly discuss numbers and all of that a lot in India. In the 2019 World Cup, I scored five hundreds, yet we were still defeated. The hundreds are irrelevant.
“I may think about them may be 20 years later after I retire, but what did we get? I wanted the trophy.
“Those five or six hundred don’t seem like they make a lot of sense if you don’t win trophies.” Trophy winning is the main focus of team sports, not individual achievements, the speaker continued.
