Former India head coach Rahul Dravid hailed skipper Rohit Sharma and mentioned it was his privilege to work with the 37-year-old. Rohit has earned laurels in white-ball cricket, and his spectacular tally speaks volumes about his prowess in limited-over cricket. Rohit has garnered 14,846 runs, three double a whole bunch, 33 a whole bunch, and 87 fifties in ODIs and T20Is mixed. Aside from his mouth-watering tally, Rohit is a two-time ICC T20 World Cup (2007 and 2024) and ICC Champions Trophy winner. He additionally holds the file for many sixes within the shortest format.
Rohit’s stint as India’s T20I skipper was a memorable one. He overtook Dhoni as essentially the most profitable T20I captain with 49 wins in 62 matches. Dhoni had 41 victories from 72 video games. Additionally to prime it off, he led India to the ICC T20 World Cup title after an exhilarating win within the last in opposition to South Africa at Barbados, ending India’s ICC trophy drought of 11 years.
Chatting with Star Sports activities, Dravid mentioned Rohit Sharma was a “implausible chief”. He added that individuals are “gravitated” in the direction of him and the Males in Blue.
“I feel it was a privilege to work with Rohit. In these two and a half years, I feel he was a implausible chief. Folks actually gravitated in the direction of him, the crew. I feel that makes an enormous distinction. There have been loads of different senior gamers as effectively, whether or not it was Virat, Bumrah, or Ashwin in Take a look at cricket that we performed. So lots of them–just as a result of loads of Indian cricketers are large names, and they’re superstars, and rightly so, and so they’re adopted by so many people–sometimes folks assume that they’ve large egos and that they’re very tough to handle.” Dravid mentioned.
The previous India head coach added that individuals assume that large gamers like Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and others are very “humble” and haven’t any egos.
“However really, I feel it is simply the alternative. A variety of these superstars are literally very humble about their preparation. They’re humble about their work ethic. And that’s the reason they’re superstars. Take a look at Ashwin at present; at this age, he is prepared to adapt, he is prepared to be taught. So only one instance. After all, at instances it’s important to handle them, handle their our bodies, handle the workload, loads of these issues. However to be sincere, it was not very tough. I had a superb group of individuals round me. And it was a privilege and a pleasure to work with a few of these guys. And I am joyful we have been capable of create a superb setting. However loads of the credit score should go to the captain and the senior individuals who, to be sincere, really drive a crew,” he added.
Dravid had a high quality profession as a coach for Crew India, ending with an ICC T20 World Cup trophy after an exhilarating win over South Africa this yr in June at Barbados. Earlier than this, India ended as runners-up within the 50-over World Cup at house final yr after a dominant 10-match win streak, dropping to Australia. In addition they ended up as runners-up within the ICC World Take a look at Championship to Australia final yr. India additionally received the 50-over Asia Cup final yr.
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