Dubai, Mar 10 India captain Rohit Sharma gave a priceless answer on his retirement rumours following India’s win in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 final against New Zealand in Dubai. India beat New Zealand by four wickets in the final to clinch their third Champions Trophy title.Ahead of the summit clash, there were widespread reports claiming that the India skipper might bid adieu to ODI cricket after the end of the tournament. Following India’s win, Rohit was asked about his future plans in the post-match press conference.
The star batter laughed off the question at first and went on to say, “There’s no future plan, things will keep on going as it is,. I’m not going to retire from this format. Just to make sure that no rumours are spread moving forward.
“Not just this game but right from the beginning, our spinners in particular, there’s too much expectations when you are playing on a pitch like that, but they never disappointed. We do understand their strengths playing on pitches like this, it helped them and we used that to our advantage.”
“We played some really good cricket and throughout the tournament in terms of our bowling we were very very consistent. (on KL) Very very solid mind, never gets overawed by the pressure around him, that’s one of the reason we wanted to have him in the middle phase, to try and finish off the game for us. With his experience and class, there’s a bit of calmness when he bats and he picks the right shot to play in the pressure situation which allows the other guys who are batting around him to come out and play freely for example Hardik”.
“He came out and played some really good shots in both games which gave us a little bit of a breather. Overall the batsmanship that was shown by all our batters throughout the tournament was superb. (on Varun) He has got something different about him – I have said it many a times. When you are playing on a pitch like that you want the batters to force on him and that’s where he becomes a lot more dangerous, that was the thought which went behind getting him into the squad and actually playing him. He didn’t start off in the tournament for us, but when he played against New Zealand and he got five wickets, we saw the kind of ability he possesses with the ball and we wanted to maximise that and he did not disappoint.”
” He has got great quality about his bowling and luckily for us it came to use at various times. Very grateful, really appreciate their support coming out in huge numbers and getting behind the team. It may not be seen as useful as the game that we play but when they come out and get behind the team it makes a huge difference. And like I said, they made it feel like home so that was very very good from them.”