The team captained by Rohit Sharma has performed amazingly in the World Cup 2023. Till now the team has not lost a single match under the captaincy of Hitman and remains the only invincible team. Meanwhile, former BCCI President Sourav Ganguly has made a big revelation on Rohit’s captaincy.

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Sourav Ganguly: ‘Rohit Sharma did not want to become captain’

Ganguly has recently said that Rohit Sharma was not ready to take the captaincy of the Indian team. The reason behind this was that he had to play in all formats and due to pressure, he did not want to be the captain. It was only after former Indian captain Virat Kohli that Rohit took over the captaincy of all three formats.

Ganguly said "Rohit doesn't wanted the captaincy because there was a lot of pressure on playing all formats – it has come on a stage I told him you have to say yes or I will announce your name, I am happy he has taken it now he is leading from front and you guys can check the… pic.twitter.com/JeEs20eL5b

— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) November 10, 2023

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Didn’t want pressure from all formats

Ganguly recently said that “Rohit did not want captaincy because he was under pressure to play in all formats. This also came up at one stage. I told him you have to say yes or I will announce your name. I’m glad he took it (captaincy). Now he is leading from the front and you can see the results.”