Team India captain Rohit Sharma expressed his desire to win more matches and trophies in the future even after winning the recent T20 World Cup in the West Indies and USA. The veteran also mentioned this at the CEAT Cricket Rating Awards ceremony, where he was named the men’s international cricketer of the year as well. However, Rohit led his IPL franchise Mumbai Indians (MI) to five IPL titles but
failed to win in the World Test Championship and ODI World Cup final last year as Indian captain. But, he finally broke India’s ICC trophy drought by leading them to the 2024 T20 World Cup title as well.

At the awards ceremony, Rohit said: “There is a reason I won five IPL trophies. I’m not going to stop, because once you get the taste of winning games, winning Cups, you don’t want to stop and we’ll keep pushing as a team. We’ll keep striving for better things in the future. We’ve got a couple of solid tours coming up, very challenging ones as well. For us, it never stops. Once you achieve something you always look forward to achieving more. That is what I will be doing. I’m pretty sure my teammates will be thinking on the same line. What I’ve seen in the last two years in Indian cricket, there’s some real excitement, some real good cricket is being played.”

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While it will be interesting to see whether Rohit Sharma will still be playing during the next ODI World Cup in 2027, he is almost certain to lead the team in two key ICC events next year – the Champions Trophy and World Test Championship final (if India qualify). However, Rohit Sharma also thanked the three pillars of Indian cricket – head coach Rahul Dravid, BCCI secretary Jay Shah, and chief selector Ajit Agarkar
for their incredible recent run culminating with the T20 World Cup win as well.

“It was my dream to transform this team and not worry too much about the stats, the results, to make sure that we create that environment where people can go out there and play freely without thinking too much. That is what was required. I got a lot of help from my three pillars, who are actually Mr Jay Shah, Mr Rahul Dravid (and the) chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar,” Rohit Sharma said at the awards ceremony.

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“That was very critical for me to do what I did and obviously not to forget the players, who came in at different points in time and helped the team to achieve what we achieved. When we won the World Cup, it was important for all of us to enjoy the moment which we did pretty well and thanks to our nation as well for celebrating with us,” he concluded.