India's new One Day International captain Rohit Sharma has said that middle order batters of his team will have to prepare themselves to deal with the worst case scenario, in order to win ICC trophies going ahead. Sharma was on Wednesday declared new ODI captain by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Virat was reportedly sacked as ODI captain after he failed to voluntarily step down within 48 hours, as demanded by the BCCI. The cricket board has shown a lot of trust in Rohit Sharma and chose him India's new white ball captain.
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1. In the past four years, India's ICC trophy journey has not been good, India has lost in the final of the 2017 Champions Trophy, the semi-final of the 2019 ODI World Cup and crashed out in the group stage of the 2021 T20 World Cup as well. Going through this analysis, Rohit Sharma wants his team to prepare themselves for the next World Cup.
2. "We lost the Champions Trophy, the 2019 world cup and even this T20 world cup. That initial phase of the game is where we lost the game. That's something I will keep in mind. I will see that we have to prepare for the worst. We have to prepare for when the team is 10 for 3. And that is how I want to move forward and get the message across to the boys," Rohit said in a YouTube show 'Backstage with Boria'.
3. In the YouTube show, the new captain spoke his heart out, with his complete analysis, "There is a similarity in all the three games we lost. Two Pakistan games and one New Zealand game in the three ICC tournaments. That can happen. I do understand that the quality of bowling was exceptional at that point. But it has happened three times. I hope it doesn't happen for the fourth time."
4. Rohit Sharma believes that winning the World Cups is important as winning the championship always stays with the team. "When you play the sport, you want to achieve the best. And I feel the best I feel is winning the championship. You might score many runs, many hundreds but winning that championship always stays with you. You know why? Because that's a collective effort from the team. At the end of the day, we play a team game. It's not an individual sport. So, what you achieve as a team is very very important to me," he said.
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