Rohit Sharma’s outstanding streak of showing in each T20 World Cup because the match’s inception is now set to finish. Solely two gamers have participated in all 9 editions, and Rohit stands because the lone Indian in that elite group. However with the 2026 T20 World Cup coming to India subsequent February and his retirement from T20Is final June, the previous captain acknowledged that he’ll expertise the subsequent version from dwelling for the primary time, admitting that the considered “watching the World Cup on tv” remains to be one thing he’s studying to just accept. Regardless of stepping away from T20Is greater than a 12 months in the past and ending his Check profession in Could, Rohit mentioned the shift to life as a retired participant stays an ongoing adjustment.
On Tuesday, ICC chairman Jay Shah introduced Rohit because the official ambassador for the Males’s T20 World Cup 2026. The 2024 T20 World Cup-winning skipper referred to as the honour particular, noting that gamers are not often appointed ICC ambassadors whereas nonetheless energetic of their enjoying days. He expressed hope that the upcoming version would generate the identical pleasure with a brand new group of Indian gamers. Rohit additionally mirrored on his three ICC titles, together with two as captain, and recalled how troublesome it was to finish India’s lengthy drought between 2014 and 2023. He admitted that successful any world trophy is an immense problem and that the workforce’s desperation throughout the lean years made the current triumphs much more significant. With Suryakumar Yadav now main India’s marketing campaign on the 2026 occasion because the workforce makes an attempt to turn out to be the primary aspect to retain the T20 title, Rohit confessed that the concept of not being within the dressing room stays unfamiliar. Nonetheless, he mentioned he’s progressively discovering consolation on this new chapter. Watching a World Cup as a spectator, he mentioned, will probably be uncommon after that includes in each one in every of them to this point. “I’m nonetheless getting used to sitting at dwelling and watching it on TV,” he remarked, including that he has begun to take pleasure in this totally different perspective. Rohit made it clear, nonetheless, that he has not retired from all codecs. He reminded everybody that he stays an energetic cricketer and can rejoin the squad later this week in Ranchi for India’s three-match dwelling ODI sequence in opposition to South Africa. “I’ll be assembly the boys quickly. I’m nonetheless enjoying,” he mentioned with a smile.