'Representing India is no joke', why did champion captain Rohit Sharma say so?
The Indian team won the Champions Trophy title for a record third time. Indian team captain Rohit Sharma expressed his views openly in the press conference after the match. Hitman praised his team and said that it was successful in dealing with external pressure.
Sharma said that if the Indian team had lost even one match, many kinds of speculations would have been made but it did not come to that.
After the victory in the Champions Trophy, Indian captain Rohit Sharma said that due to strong determination, the team was successful in dealing with the pressure from outside. There was a lot of pressure from outside.
Indian team won the Champions Trophy title
He said that if the team had lost one match, then many kinds of speculations would have been made. But our players dealt with it well and they ignored it and focused only on their game and won the trophy.
Satisfaction comes from victory
Rohit said that representing India is no joke. Everyone wants to represent India with great honesty. I contributed a lot in the 2019 World Cup, but we could not win. So, it was not fun.
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The 'Hitman' said that we knew that the conditions would be very difficult, but we adapted well to them. We came out with more spinners instead of more fast bowlers. We looked at how much these wickets have been used before coming here.
Indian trinity got new life
The Indian captain said that I knew that the role of slow bowlers would be important. So we wanted to select the team on this basis. Rohit, Kohli and Gambhir were on the target of critics due to the team not performing as expected in the last few months.
Now the victory in the Champions Trophy has given new life to these three. With this, not only these three but the future path of the team has also become clear to a great extent. The team focused on the process and now the result is in front of everyone.
Rohit will continue playing
Indian team captain Rohit Sharma made it clear during this time that as long as his bat is scoring runs, he will continue playing. It was believed that after the Champions Trophy, Rohit Sharma will retire from the ODI format.
But the Indian captain expressed his intention and said that he is not going anywhere and will continue playing in the 50 over format.
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