“Was A Privilege To Work With Rohit Sharma”: Ex-Coach Rahul Dravid’s Massive Reward For India Skipper

Former India head coach Rahul Dravid hailed skipper Rohit Sharma and stated it was his privilege to work with the 37-year-old. Rohit has earned laurels in white-ball cricket, and his spectacular tally speaks volumes about his prowess in limited-over cricket. Rohit has garnered 14,846 runs, three double tons of, 33 tons of, and 87 fifties in ODIs and T20Is mixed. Aside from his mouth-watering tally, Rohit is a two-time ICC T20 World Cup (2007 and 2024) and ICC Champions Trophy winner. He additionally holds the file for many sixes within the shortest format.

Rohit’s stint as India’s T20I skipper was a memorable one. He overtook Dhoni as probably the most profitable T20I captain with 49 wins in 62 matches. Dhoni had 41 victories from 72 video games. Additionally to high it off, he led India to the ICC T20 World Cup title after an exciting win within the closing in opposition to South Africa at Barbados, ending India’s ICC trophy drought of 11 years.

Talking to Star Sports activities, Dravid stated Rohit Sharma was a “improbable chief”. He added that persons are “gravitated” in direction of him and the Males in Blue.

“I believe it was a privilege to work with Rohit. In these two and a half years, I believe he was a improbable chief. Folks actually gravitated in direction of him, the crew. I believe that makes an enormous distinction. There have been loads of different senior gamers as effectively, whether or not it was Virat, Bumrah, or Ashwin in Check cricket that we performed. So a lot of them–just as a result of loads of Indian cricketers are huge names, and they’re superstars, and rightly so, and so they’re adopted by so many people–sometimes folks suppose that they’ve huge egos and that they’re very troublesome to handle.” Dravid stated.

The previous India head coach added that individuals suppose that huge gamers like Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and others are very “humble” and have no egos.

“However really, I believe it is simply the other. Lots of these superstars are literally very humble about their preparation. They’re humble about their work ethic. And that’s the reason they’re superstars. Have a look at Ashwin immediately; at this age, he is prepared to adapt, he is prepared to study. So only one instance. After all, at instances you need to handle them, handle their our bodies, handle the workload, loads of these issues. However to be sincere, it was not very troublesome. I had a superb group of individuals round me. And it was a privilege and a pleasure to work with a few of these guys. And I am completely satisfied we had been in a position to create a superb surroundings. However loads of the credit score should go to the captain and the senior individuals who, to be sincere, really drive a crew,” he added.

Dravid had a fantastic profession as a coach for Crew India, ending with an ICC T20 World Cup trophy after an exciting win over South Africa this 12 months in June at Barbados. Earlier than this, India ended as runners-up within the 50-over World Cup at dwelling final 12 months after a dominant 10-match win streak, shedding to Australia. In addition they ended up as runners-up within the ICC World Check Championship to Australia final 12 months. India additionally received the 50-over Asia Cup final 12 months.

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