As the Cricket World Cup 2023 begins, the Indian cricket crew would look to finish the lengthy and excruciating look ahead to an ICC title. Having final received the ODI World Cup in 2011 and an ICC title in 2013, it has been a decade since India tasted such success on the worldwide stage. India captain Rohit Sharma, who will probably be main the crew in his first ODI World Cup, opened up on his captaincy stint within the Indian crew, admitting that it is completely truthful that Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni received the function earlier than him.

In an interview with Indian Express, Rohit stated that the best time to get the captiancy of the nationwide crew would’ve been 26-27 but it surely’s not potential to all the time get what one needs.

“Obviously, you want to be at your peak for this, say when you are 26-27. But you cannot always get what you want. You are talking about the Indian captaincy and there have been stalwarts in the Indian team. Many more players deserved to be the captain of the team. I had to wait for my turn and that’s absolutely fair enough. The guys before, Virat was before me, so was MS (Dhoni),” he stated.

Rohit additionally gave examples of some different stalwarts of the Indian crew who did not get to captain the nationwide crew on a full-time foundation for lengthy.

“Just look at the names that are missed out: Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag … these are all stalwarts of Indian cricket. Not to forget Yuvraj Singh. He never captained India. Yuvraj has been such a match-winner for India, he should have been the captain at some stage but he didn’t get it. That’s life. I got it now and I am grateful for it. I would rather have it when I know how to captain a team, when I know what is required and all. Rather than when I don’t know the ABCD of captaincy. So in that respect, this is good.”

On India’s ambition of profitable the World Cup title, Rohit stated that the Indian crew needs to maintain the pacers recent, and therefore, have chosen extra of them.

“A team needs to play 11 games to reach the World Cup final. Last time we played this format was in 2019, but to play 11 ODIs in one-and-half months is not easy. It’s a long World Cup. We don’t want any of our pacers to break down. Hence we have selected more of them.”