Indian skipper Rohit Sharma recently talked about the moment he got to know about his 2011 World Cup omission. Rohit also recalled how he had reacted and dealt with the situation.
Rohit recalled that he had “no one to talk to about this” and he was in his room “sitting and thinking about what went wrong.”
Rohit's reaction
“It is very hard. Honestly, it's not easy because World Cup is something that you always dream of playing and being part of the World Cup. And plus, contributing for the team's success. I still remember I was in South Africa at that point and we were playing the series when we got the news. I had no one to talk to about this. At that point, I was just in my room sitting and thinking about what went wrong and what I could have done better and all of that,” Rohit said during his conversation on Dream 11 with Indian women’s team cricketer Jemimah Rodrigues.
“But I think, it's important that at that stage I was, we're talking about like tens years from now, and I was only 23 or 24 at that point. So I knew that there's lot of cricket left in me and it's not the end of the world and it was more important for me to comeback from this. What has happened has happened, there is nothing you can change about it,” the Indian skipper added.
A new approach
The 34-year-old Indian skipper further admitted that “it was a very tough time.”
“You can be disappointed, you can be frustrated, and that's allowed because it's only natural. You get dejected and frustrated. But in that frustration, I did not want to get out of my path and I wanted to do things I thought of which is to get better as a cricketer and see what went wrong. It was a very tough time and I went by a philosophy of thing that okay tough moments will not last forever but tough people will so I wanted to get really tough and how I do my skill training and all of that.”
