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Rohit Sharma confirmed he won’t retire from ODI cricket after winning the 2025 Champions Trophy. India beat Latest Zealand by 4 wickets, making Rohit the primary captain since MS Dhoni to win two ICC titles.
Rohit Sharma posing with the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy (AP)
In a significant breaking news for Indian cricket, Rohit Sharma has confirmed that he has no plans to retire from ODI cricket after winning the 2025 Champions Trophy.
India beat Latest Zealand by 4 wickets on the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, making Rohit the primary captain since MS Dhoni to win two ICC titles. There was a ton of speculation within the lead-up to the ultimate concerning the 37-year-old’s future. He already retired from T20Is last 12 months, and the subsequent ICC ODI tournament is the 2027 World Cup, when he’d be near 40 years of age.
“I’m not going to retire from this (ODI) format. Going forward please don’t spread rumours,” Rohit said on the post-match press-conference, as quoted by news agency PTI.
“No future plans. Jo ho raha hain, woh chalta jayega (Whatever is occurring will keep continuing),” Rohit added.
Rohit had doubts over not only his future but in addition his present coming into the tournament. He was struggling for runs in Test cricket and couldn’t do anything of note within the group stage.
There have been also calls from experts asking him to alter his batting approach and tone down the aggression to bat longer. Nonetheless, the skipper put all that to rest together with his sensible knock in the ultimate.
He smashed 76 off 83 balls against the brand new ball to set the proper foundation for the team within the 252-run chase. Gill could take his time and contribute a 31 on the opposite end, and despite quick wickets of the top-three, Shreyas Iyer and Axar Patel, too, didn’t have the run-rate pressure on them after they got here to bat. Ravindra Jadeja finished things off with a 4 on the last ball of the forty ninth over.
“It is rather nice,” he said earlier within the post-match presentation, as quoted by Cricbuzz. “We played some really good cricket through the tournament, to return out here and have the result our way is a fantastic feeling, very completely happy with how we played this game. It (attacking game) will not be natural to me nevertheless it is something I actually desired to do, if you find yourself trying something different you wish the backing of the team, you wish the backing of the management and so they were throughout with me.”
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
