5 months ago
2
In a stunning revelation, former India skipper Rohit Sharma connected Sunday (December 21, 2025) said helium contemplated status aft the heartbreaking nonaccomplishment to Australia successful the 2023 ODI World Cup last arsenic helium “felt that the athletics had taken everything retired of me.”
Under the captaincy of Rohit, the Indian squad enjoyed a imagination tally successful that tourney astatine location and marched into the last with 9 consecutive wins. However, Australia dashed their hopes successful the crippled that mattered the most, with Travis Head scoring a match-winning hundred.
“After 2023 World Cup final, I was completed distraught and felt similar I didn't privation to play this athletics anymore due to the fact that it had taken everything retired of maine and I felt I had thing left,” Rohit said during a Masters Union event.
“It took immoderate clip and I kept reminding myself that this is thing I genuinely love, that it was close successful beforehand of me, and I couldn't fto it spell truthful easy. Slowly, I recovered my mode back, regaining the vigor and getting myself moving again connected the field.
“Everybody was highly disappointed, and we conscionable couldn't judge what had happened. It was a precise pugnacious clip for maine personally due to the fact that I had enactment everything into that World Cup not conscionable 2 oregon 3 months earlier it, but ever since I took implicit the captaincy successful 2022,” helium added.
Rohit, who has retired from T20Is and Tests and was removed from ODI captaincy earlier this year, continues to play the 50-over format and would similar to extremity his vocation with 1 last effort astatine the 2027 World Cup.
“My lone extremity was to triumph the World Cup, whether it was the T20 World Cup oregon the 2023 World Cup. So erstwhile it didn't happen, I was wholly devastated. There was nary vigor near successful my body. It took maine a mates of months to retrieve and bring myself back,” said Rohit.
Less than a twelvemonth aft that nonaccomplishment to Australia successful Ahmedabad, Rohit led the Indian squad to the T20 World Cup rubric successful the Americas, but overcoming the symptom of the decision successful November 2023 was highly difficult.
“I conjecture erstwhile you put truthful overmuch into thing and don't execute the result, it's a precise earthy reaction. That's precisely what happened with me. But I besides knew that beingness doesn't extremity there.
“It was a large acquisition for maine however to woody with disappointment, reset, and commencement fresh. I knew that thing other was coming the 2024 T20 World Cup successful the USA and West Indies and I had to displacement each my absorption towards that.
“It's precise casual to accidental this now, but astatine that moment, it was highly difficult,” Rohit said.
