Veteran India batter Rohit Sharma had announced his retirement from his T20I career back in June 2024. The announcement had come soon after India won the T20 World Cup. Virat Kohli first announced his retirement from T20I after the title win and Rohit Sharma followed him with a similar announcment as well. The next day Ravindra Jadeja too quit the T20 format at the highest level and this saw them leaving huge void in the team.

“Had we not won the T20 World Cup, I would have announced my retirement anyway because I had tried enough. It is (was) not fair for me to continue. You have to give chances to others. But after winning, you feel that you still have it in you; you are playing well, and you have given the result as well, so why not? Why not continue?” Rohit Sharma told journalist Vimal Kumar on latter’s YouTube channel.

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“Because this place that you have earned, by no means came to you just like that. You worked really hard for it. I know what all I have done in my life and all the things I have gone through to get this. So I have an idea of all these things. So why do you want to leave? If you are batting well, giving results, then why?” he added.

While announcing his T20I retirement back in 2024, Rohit Sharma had said, “This was my last game as well. No better time to say goodbye. I wanted this (trophy) badly. It’s very hard to put in words. This what I wanted and it happened. I was very desperate for this in my life. Happy that we crossed the line this time.”

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His retirement announcement had come on the heels of Team India’s second T20 World Cup title, a victory that brought immense joy and pride to the country as well. Notably, Rohit Sharma is now active only in ODIs for India, along with continues to play T20 cricket for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League as well.