Rohit Sharma reveals Rahul Dravid played a crucial role behind India’s Champions Trophy victory

Former Indian captain Rohit Sharma has opened up on the two ICC titles he won as a captain. While the Indian team, under Rohit, missed out on lifting the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 title, losing to Australia, they stunned the cricketing world with two consecutive ICC titles.

Speaking on the sidelines of the CEAT Cricket Awards event in Mumbai, Rohit lauded the former Indian head coach Rahul Dravid’s efforts behind India winning the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 and ICC Champions Trophy 2025.

"It is not about one year of work or two years of work. We had come so close to winning that trophy many times (during the 2014 T20 World Cup finals against Sri Lanka and the 2016 T20 WC semis versus West Indies), but we could not quite get over the line. That is where everyone decided that we needed to do something different. One or two players cannot do it. You need everyone to buy into that thought. That was really good from the team, and that is something that helped me and Rahul Dravid, when we were planning for the T20 World Cup and then on to the Champions Trophy," he added.

Speaking about Rohit Sharma’s ODI record, he has accumulated 11,168 runs in 273 matches and 265 innings at an average of 48.76 and a strike rate of 92.80, with 32 centuries and 58 fifties. Most recently, he has been sacked as the ODI captain, and Shubman Gill has replaced him for the forthcoming Australian tour.

In Rohit Sharma’s ODI captaincy, India bagged the 2018 and 2023 ODI Asia Cup titles. Later, they won the ICC Champions Trophy in Dubai earlier this year.

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