Ahead of India’s crucial encounter against Scotland on Thursday in the ongoing T20 World Cup 2021, deputy skipper, Rohi ohit RSharma said that runs and hundreds mean nothing honestly if the team couldn’t win a trophy. India will lock horns with Scotland in Dubai on Thursday.
Ahead of the game, in a video shared by teh ICC, Rohit Sharma said, “From 2016 to now, all I can see is of course, I have gained a lot of experience. I have matured as a batsman a lot more than I was in 2016. Understanding of the game, what the team needs, because you always have to put the team ahead of yourself and see what the team needs at that point. Try and take a moment or two and think if I am going to play a shot, is it what the team needs at this point.”
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He further explained, “When you start the innings for your team, you have the best opportunity to face maximum balls. You get as many runs as possible which is why you see the number of hundreds that has been scored around the world in T20 has to be by the top three batters. So yeah, my job remains the same.”
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Rohit Sharma received the ‘Player of the Match’ award for his 74 in India’s 66-run victory over Afghanistan on Wednesday. He made a record of amassing five centuries in the 2019 World Cup, before India crashed out of the tournament after losing to New Zealand in the semifinals.
Talking about the same, Rohit Sharma said, “Yeah, the 2019 World Cup was a very special one for me personally. Only because I got runs and it was good. There was a procedure that I was trying to follow and it worked for me.”
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He further added, “That was happiness. You know when you go into any tournament, there is a certain plan which has been placed by you and you want to follow that. That is what I did and it worked for me. If you don’t win the trophy, all those runs that you score, all those hundreds that you score mean nothing honestly.”
