You’ll get an answer for sure in due course: Rohit on his T20I future
Johannesburg: India captain Rohit Sharma can leave everyone in peals of laughter with his comments, while himself maintaining a poker face.
Before the press conference started here on Monday, he smiled and told everyone, “No questions on IPL. Only on Indian cricket team.”
Someone pushed his luck and enquired, “it’s a press meet, we can ask.”
Rohit pointed to the BCCI logo on his crest to signal it’s a board-organised press meet. He knew he would be probed about his white-ball future. Where does Rohit the batter see himself in the coming two years?
“I will play whatever cricket is there in front of me,” he said in a loaded answer one can interpret the way one wants to.
The next question was more direct? “Do you seniors, you, Virat (Kohli) feel desperation to play T20 World Cup?”
“Desperation cricket khelne ke liye sabko hai (We are all desperate to play cricket). Everyone wants to do well whatever chances they get,” he said. And, then, he let everyone know what they were trying to extract from him.
“I know what you are trying to ask. You will get an answer, you will, for certain,” said Rohit as he tried to suppress his grin.
On a serious note, he admitted that the World Cup final was a bitter pill to swallow for everyone in the team.
“The World Cup until the final the way we played, you expect to go an inch further. Unfortunately, we couldn’t do it and that
was the hard part, take that, honestly we have all these years worked hard for it, and you saw how we managed to play the first 10 games and the final,” he said.
“Obviously, we didn’t do certain things well in the final and that cost us the match, there were not many
things we could point out that we didn’t do this right or we didn’t do that right,” said Rohit, sounding practical in his thought process.
“It’s hard from a loss like that, but there’s so much happening in life and there’s so much cricket happening, move on from that, it took time to come out from that and you got to look
forward,” he added.
