20 days since the ICC World Cup final, Rohit Sharma expressed his feelings said “I had no idea how to come back from these first few days I did not know what to do. My family and my friends kept me going and kept things pretty light around me which was quite helpful. It was not easy to digest, but life moved on. You have to move on in life. But honestly, it was tough… it was not so easy to move on. I have always grown up watching 50 over the World Cup, to me that was the ultimate prize the 50 over World Cup.”
” So, we have worked all these years… you know for that that World Cup and it was disappointing. If you do not get through it and do not know what you want, what you have been looking for all this while… what you were dreaming of, you get disappointed, you get frustrated as well at times. I thought we did everything, we could from our side… if someone will ask me, what went wrong? Because we own 10 games… and in those 10 games, yes, we made mistakes but those mistakes happen in every game you play.”
”You cannot have a perfect game. You can have a near-perfect game… but you cannot have a perfect game. If I look on the other side of it… I am really proud of the team as well. Because how we played was simply outstanding, because you do not get to perform like that every World Cup. You know and I am pretty sure at least how we played up until that final… it would have given people a lot of joy, a lot of pride watching the team play.”
20 days since the ICC World Cup final, Rohit Sharma expressed his feelings
”After the final, it was very hard to get back, and start moving on… which is why I decided that I needed to go somewhere and just get my mind out of this, but then… wherever I was, I realized that people were coming up to me and there were appreciating everyone’s effort, how well we played. Yeah… I mean I feel for all of them. They all, along with us, they were dreaming of lifting that ICC World Cup… along with us everywhere we went during this entire campaign, there was so much support from everyone who came to the stadium firstly and people who were watching it from home as well.”
”I want to appreciate what people have done for us in that one & half month period. But again, if I think more and more on that we were not able to go through all the way. For me to see, you know, people coming up to me and telling me that they were very proud of the team, made me feel good to a certain extent.”
”Along with them, I was healing as well because I felt, okay these are the kind of things you want to hear from people. When they understand what the player must be going through and when they know these kinds of things and not to bring out that frustration that anger, it means a lot to us. For me definitely it meant a lot because there was no anger, it was just pure love from people that I met and it was wonderful to see that. So it gives you the motivation to get back and start working again and look forward to the ultimate prize.”
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