Rohit Sharma, India’s all-round skipper, is one of the most successful hitters in international cricket right now, and he has gone a long way since his debut in 2007. For years, Rohit was touted as the country’s most promising youth, but he never quite lived up to his promise in his early years, and it wasn’t until the 2013 Champions Trophy that everything changed for the current Team India captain.
However, Rohit’s path to success was not without setbacks, the most significant of which came in 2011 when he was left out of the World Cup team that went on to win the trophy, ending India’s 28-year drought. During a conversation with India Women’s squad batter Jemimah Rodrigues, Rohit reflected on how he felt “frustrated and dissatisfied” after the World Cup. “It’s quite difficult. To be honest, it’s not easy because the World Cup is something you’ve always wanted to play in and be a part of. In addition, I contribute to the team’s performance. I was in South Africa at the time, and we were in the middle of a series when we heard the news. I didn’t know who to talk to about it.” “At that time, I was just lying in my room, thinking about what went wrong, what I might have done better, and all of that,” Rohit said to Jemimah on Dream 11. “It’s okay to be upset or frustrated since it’s only natural. You get discouraged and frustrated. But, in my irritation, I didn’t want to leave my route and instead wanted to achieve what I had in mind, which was to improve as a cricketer and figure out what went wrong. It was a difficult period, and I lived by the notion that “bad times don’t stay forever, but tough people do,” so I wanted to grow very tough with my skill training and everything.” Rohit, on the other hand, persevered through the adversity and was named to the following two World Cup squads in 2015 and 2019. Rohit Sharma was in magnificent form during the previous World Cup in England, and he made the bowlers pay.
He was the best run-scorer in the premier tournament, with 648 runs scored at an average of 81.00. Even though India lost to New Zealand in the semi-final, Rohit Sharma’s batting skills made the rest of the world pay attention. India’s opening batsman hit five hundred and a half-century in the first innings.