Following India's T20 World Cup 2024 victory, captain Rohit Sharma & skipper Virat Kohli announced their retirement from T20 cricket. Reflecting on his career since 2007, Sharma expressed satisfaction with coming full circle. He acknowledged the challenges of playing and captaining across formats, emphasizing the need for quick adaptation. Sharma cited the difficulty but enjoyment of T20 cricket and stated that retiring after winning the World Cup was the perfect ending to his T20 career.
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00:00I started when I came to the Indian team for the first time in 2007.
00:05My first challenge was to go to Ireland for the 50-over.
00:10But immediately after that, we went to South Africa to play the T20 World Cup.
00:15And we won there.
00:17And now it's a full circle. Proper circle.
00:21So I'm very happy with this.
00:23You scored a sixer in the last over of the 2000 final.
00:26That became very vital. Do you still remember that?
00:29Yes, I remember. We were so young at that time.
00:32We were 20 years old.
00:34I always tell my players to try to play their role.
00:40I had a role at that time.
00:42I used to bat 5 or 6 overs.
00:45So it was very important for us to get a good finish at that time.
00:49At that time, a good score was 140-150.
00:55So I was thinking about how to reach around 150.
01:00And eventually, I think we ended up somewhere around 150.
01:05So it was a learning stage for me.
01:09I was learning things.
01:11And now, obviously, like I said, it's come to a full circle.
01:15I understand the game much better now.
01:18Having played the game for so many years.
01:20So it's been brilliant.
01:22Is it difficult to be a test captain, a one-day captain and a T20 captain?
01:27Because every ball keeps changing.
01:30Absolutely.
01:31I think it's a big challenge to play all three formats.
01:34And let alone captaining it.
01:37I think it's very difficult for the players to adapt quickly.
01:42When you're playing a test match, you have to work on your technical aspects.
01:47You have to work on your batsmanship.
01:49You have to pay attention.
01:51When you come to T20, you have to play different kinds of shots from the start.
01:56Because I open the ball.
01:57So it's a challenge in its own format.
02:00And it's just as much fun to play in different formats.
02:05Because as a sportsman, what we want at the end of the day is a challenge.
02:08And the captain?
02:09And the captain too, obviously.
02:11I mean, your plan is set in a test match.
02:13The field is set.
02:14The bowlers come and work.
02:16And then you move one or two fielders here and there.
02:20And you plan to a certain batter.
02:22You have to out this batter.
02:24But in T20, the game runs fast.
02:26You have to change the field placement.
02:28You have to put one bowler over and then bring the other bowler.
02:32So it's a fun format.
02:35All three formats.
02:36And I have certainly enjoyed this a lot in all three formats.
02:41Captaining and batting.
02:43So it's been great.
02:50Good action.