Indian skipper Rohit Sharma got emotional after Hardik Pandya bowled the last ball of the match sealing the win in T20 World Cup 2024. After crying happy tears, hugging and kissing his teammates, Rohit went to the pitch at Kensington Oval, Barbados. Then he did something what Tennis legend Novak Djokovic does after winning the Wimbledon. Like Djokovic eats grass, Rohit tasted the Barbados pitch as well. The video of Rohit eating a speck of grass was posted by ICC and went viral on social media. Two days after the feeling of winning the World Cup is yet to sink in, Rohit revealed why he did it.
“Nothing was scripted. I was feeling the moment. When I went to the pitch because that pitch gave us this (WC trophy). We played on that particular pitch and we won the game. That particular ground as well, I will remember that ground forever in my life and that pitch as well," Rohit said in a video posted by the BCCI on July 2.
"I wanted to have a piece of that pitch with me. Those moments are very very special. The place where all our dreams came true, I wanted something of it. So, that was the feeling behind it," he added.
Rohit still coming to terms with the win
After winning his first World Cup trophy as captain, Rohit said that it still feels like a dream as India won the game from a point where the win predictor showed chances of them ending on the right side in single digits.
“Yeah, the feeling is surreal. I would still say it hasn't sunk in totally. It's been a great moment right from when the game got over till now. It feels like a dream we still feel that it hasn't happened. Although it has happened but it feels like it hasn't happened. That's the emotion, that's the meaning that you have," the 36-year-old expressed as he laid bare his emotions with the trophy in hand.
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