Cricket News: Rohit Sharma, India’s standout opener, has seen a big shift in his role for the international team in recent months. After being selected captain of the T20I side following the World Cup in November, Rohit was named captain of the fifty-over format a month later, and after Virat Kohli’s surprise appointment as Test captain, Rohit took over the command in all three formats of the game.
The Indian opener is already the captain of the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League, where he has led the team to five titles, the most by a single captain.
Rohit Sharma is a great football lover and the country’s only ambassador to LaLiga, the premier league of Spanish football, among other things. Furthermore, we’ve seen Indian cricketers warm-up for matches by playing football; as a result, does Rohit take a page from the sport’s playbook when it comes to his own game, and potentially leadership as well?
“I will go to the point of competitiveness, because, when you see them play, you can see it in their eyes, that they want to win so badly. Their passion is just to a next level that you can’t inculcate; how passionate you are to make a difference to your team that has to come from within,” Rohit Sharma responded to a query from Hindustan Times during an interaction organised by the La Liga.
Rohit also revealed that the Team India players take a deep interest in football, further adding that hard work is one thing that “we can try and replicate in our setup.”
“All these guys that we have now, in the cricket team, they’re all passionate, and they even love football, they love talking about football. Every time there’s a big game that has happened the previous night, the next morning at breakfast, the topic is only about that. So, I can see how passionate these guys are about football and it is the same thing that we want to bring in here as well.
“To me, it’s their hard work, honestly playing football for 10 years is not easy, your body takes so much. So hard work is one thing that we can try and replicate in our setup as well, without hard work there is nothing to look forward to, you work hard and you will be good for a couple of years, and then you’re gone. Playing with your talent is something that can you get the extra mile.”
