You can’t just go and think': Rohit warns India ahead of Pakistan clash

NEW DELHI: Former India skipper Rohit Sharma has warned Team India not to instrumentality their high-profile T20 World Cup 2026 clash against Pakistan lightly, adjacent though they are favourites connected paper. India look Pakistan connected February 15 astatine the R. Premadasa Stadium successful Colombo, and Rohit believes past records oregon rankings won’t substance erstwhile the lucifer starts.

India person dominated Pakistan successful T20 World Cups and caller T20Is, but Rohit stressed that cricket tin beryllium unpredictable and each squad tin triumph connected its day. Speaking astatine an lawsuit successful Dubai, helium said, “Firstly I ne'er believed successful this connection called favourites. It’s specified a comic game, and we’ve seen it present there’s truthful overmuch that has happened successful this past 10 years of planetary cricket. All these teams person truthful overmuch vulnerability present playing T20 cricket. "You can’t conscionable spell and deliberation that it’s a two-point triumph for us. You conscionable person to play bully cricket connected that peculiar time to execute those points different you mightiness extremity up going location without anything.”He added that existent form, estimation oregon past won’t warrant success. According to Rohit, the cardinal is performing connected the time of the match, due to the fact that immoderate squad tin bushed different successful T20 cricket. “So it’s not astir what you’ve done successful the past, what is your squad like, players are successful signifier oregon not form. You conscionable person to play good connected that peculiar time due to the fact that each squad is susceptible of beating immoderate squad connected that peculiar day,” helium said.India person mislaid lone erstwhile to Pakistan successful World Cups, successful the 2021 T20 World Cup, and person beaten them successful their past 5 T20I meetings.