Sport is all about winning and Rohit Sharma doesn’t want to miss out on an opportunity to do so. The India captain hasn’t lost a final, be it the IPL or the now-defunct Champions League T20 or in an interim role in the Asia Cup.
India haven’t won an ICC trophy since the 2013 Champions Trophy and Rohit is keen to make amends.
“Whether it’s me or someone else, even the guys before, their role was to take Indian cricket forward and win as many games, as many championships as possible.
“For me also, it will be the same. I want to win games, I want to win championships. That is what you play for,” Rohit, who was hit on the thumb during nets, said at a media conference.
“And yeah, it will be nice to win some titles, win some extraordinary series. But yeah, like having said that, I genuinely feel that we don’t want to put too much pressure on ourselves by overthinking about these kind of stuff.
“As a captain, like I said, every captain wants to win championships, So I’ll be no different. I also want to win championships. And that’s what the sport is all about, winning championships. So for me, it will be nice if I can win one or two championships, as in when I decide to move on from this job.
“We know what we have won and what we have lost. No point thinking about it repeatedly. During the T20 World Cup also I was asked the same question. The players know what needs to be done. How we can do well, we are focused on that.”
Rohit felt the team learnt from their mistakes in the 2021 WTC final which they lost to New Zealand.
“Last time we played, we did make a few mistakes, which we have already spoken about in this group. And yeah, we know exactly what went wrong for us in the last championship final. So, hopefully we’ll not repeat those kind of things,” the Team India captain said.
“Look, since the time we’ve come here, the talk has been around how we can play well, what are the things we need to do as a team.
“A lot of the guys in our squad are quite experienced right now... and they have been in the situation where there was too much pressure and they’ve come out on top.
“It’s just about handling that pressure, thinking about what are the right things to do under pressure at that point in time.”
