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It could beryllium fearfulness of nonaccomplishment among country's elite batters that led to India's planetary rubric drought betwixt 2011 and 2024, T20 World Cup winning erstwhile skipper Rohit Sharma said connected Friday (January 23, 2026).
After the 50-over World Cup triumph successful 2011 nether the enactment of M.S. Dhoni, India waited till 2024 for different large trophy, winning the T20 World Cup nether Rohit's captaincy.
“I person ever believed that erstwhile the tide is going down, it’s not going to enactment down forever. It volition travel up astatine immoderate stage. But I didn’t deliberation it would instrumentality 13 years. I didn’t deliberation it would spell down truthful overmuch that it would instrumentality 13 years to travel backmost up," Rohit said successful a JioHotstar show.
"The past World Cup we won was successful 2011, and past we won again successful 2024. That’s 13 years. Yes, we did triumph the Champions Trophy successful 2013, truthful technically it was an 11-year ICC trophy drought. But 11 years is inactive a agelong time," 1 of India's top captains said.
"We ever believed that we had to support doing the close things, and we did support doing the close things. Unfortunately, thing was missing. There was thing we weren’t capable to do. I felt it mightiness person been a fearfulness of nonaccomplishment creeping into each of us, possibly yes, possibly not, I don’t know, but that was my feeling."
The erstwhile captain, who presently plays successful the ODIs only, said the squad absorption headlined by him and erstwhile caput manager Rahul Dravid wanted to region the fearfulness by giving everyone state and clarity successful their roles.
"We wanted to region that fear. And however bash you bash that? By giving everyone state and clarity. By telling them, 'You are the guy, you are going to bash the occupation for me, and nary substance what happens, we volition backmost you arsenic overmuch arsenic we can.'.”
"Along with that, giving clarity astir their relation and what we expect from them. I wanted to bash this individually, to talk to players one-on-one and archer them, 'This is what we expect, this is your role.'.”
"By doing this, you physique a beardown narration with the player. And erstwhile the clip comes for him to spell retired determination and perform, helium won’t beryllium afraid. He volition instrumentality it on. Because 'if the skipper and manager person told maine this is what they expect, I’m not going to beryllium acrophobic to bash it.'.”
On however the 2019 ICC World Cup successful England and Wales was a catalyst successful the alteration successful mindset and approach, helium said, "The 2019 World Cup was a large acquisition for me. I scored truthful galore runs there, but we did not triumph the World Cup. So I asked myself, what is the usage of this? What volition I bash with these runs?.”
"Yes, they stay successful your statistic file and each that, but for me, that was of nary existent use. That is erstwhile I decided that I would play for what makes maine happy. That is wherefore I started reasoning otherwise successful 2020.”
"What I yet implemented successful 2022 and 2023 took maine 2 years to accommodate to, from 2020 to 2022. I realised that I had to play with intent and without immoderate fear. Otherwise, it does not substance however galore times I got retired successful the 40s oregon successful the 90s; it ne'er bothered maine astatine all.”.
The 38-year-old right-handed batter said immoderate players besides talked astir idiosyncratic performances and helium "had to instrumentality each of that out" from them.
“India is simply a precise stats-obsessed country. We emotion talking astir stats. Even among players, it is often about, ‘I scored truthful galore runs, I did this, I did that.’ I had to instrumentality each of that out.”
"Because astatine the extremity of the day, if you bash not person a World Cup, each those stats bash not matter. What volition you bash aft 20 oregon 25 years with those runs and everything else.”
"In my view, and this is my idiosyncratic thinking, what truly matters is having palmy campaigns and winning trophies. That defines your career, that is erstwhile you tin accidental that you person been palmy successful your cricketing career. This is my belief, this is what I think."
