Rohit Sharma understands the gargantuan pressure that a home World Cup brings but the Indian skipper wants to insulate himself from the outside chatter as he embarks on an arduous journey to win the country’s first ICC trophy in a decade.
Shouldering more than a billion hopes, Rohit knows what’s at stake in the ODI World Cup, which starts October 5 with England taking on New Zealand in Ahmedabad.
Rohit told PTI in an exclusive interview –
“For me, it is important how I keep myself relaxed and not worry about external factors that play a role, whether positively or not negatively. I want to shut out everything. I want to get into the phase I was in before the 2019 World Cup.
Rohit added – “I was in great frame of mind and prepared really well for the tournament.
“I was in good shape, good mindset. I want to bring that back and I have time to do that. Trying to recollect what were the right things that I was doing before the 2019 World Cup as a cricketer and as a person. I want to revisit that thought-process of mine personally.”
Rohit further added –
“A person can’t change overnight with his success or failures. I don’t think one result or one championship can change me as a person. I have not changed as a person in the last 16 years and I don’t think anything needs to change on that front.
“The focus will be on how I can achieve my goals in the next two months, for me and my team. A person can’t change in a period of one or two months.”
