'We set out to do ...': Rohit's first comment after losing captaincy

NEW DELHI: In his archetypal nationalist remarks since being replaced arsenic India’s ODI captain, Rohit Sharma connected Tuesday reflected connected the travel that took India from heartbreak successful the 2023 ODI World Cup last to back-to-back ICC titles — the 2024 T20 World Cup and the 2025 Champions Trophy.

Speaking astatine the CEAT Cricket Rating awards successful Mumbai, the seasoned opener credited erstwhile caput manager Rahul Dravid and the players’ corporate content for the team’s transformation.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!“Look, I emotion that team, loved playing with them and it's a travel that we were each into for galore years,” Rohit said. “It's not astir 1 twelvemonth oregon 2 years of work. It was astir getting into enactment from galore years.

We'd travel truthful adjacent to winning that trophy galore times but we couldn’t conscionable get implicit the line. That is wherever everyone decided that we request to bash thing different.”The 38-year-old skipper emphasised however India’s occurrence stemmed from a mindset displacement that Dravid and helium had instilled during their partnership. “There’s ever a thought of doing that and past really going and doing that. It cannot beryllium done by 1 oregon 2 players.

We needed everyone to bargain into that thought, which was bully from everyone,” Rohit explained.

While accepting a memento for India’s Champions Trophy triumph earlier this year, Rohit spoke passionately astir the process that defined their caller ICC dominance. “All the guys who took portion successful that contention got into that thought process of however to triumph games and however to situation ourselves and not beryllium complacent oregon instrumentality thing for granted.

Those were the qualities we tried to bring in, and we thought it was a bully method of conscionable going and doing that repeatedly,” helium said.The seasoned batter said the consistency and unity wrong the broadside became India’s biggest strength. “Everyone enjoyed that process. Once we got implicit the enactment erstwhile we won the archetypal game, we wholly enactment that crippled speech and past started focusing connected the adjacent one. That was truly bully from the squad and that is thing that helped maine and Rahul bhai erstwhile we were readying for the T20 World Cup, and past connected to the Champions Trophy.

We conscionable carried it well,” Rohit added.

Even arsenic Gautam Gambhir took implicit the coaching reins from Dravid earlier the Champions Trophy, Rohit noted that the instauration of India’s occurrence remained the same. “In 2023, though we didn’t transverse the enactment successful the finals, we acceptable retired to bash thing arsenic a squad and everyone did that,” helium said.Rohit, who has present handed implicit India’s ODI and Test captaincy to

Shubman Gill

, remains portion of the Indian setup and volition question with

Virat Kohli

for the three-match ODI bid successful Australia starting October 19.