{"id":34902,"date":"2025-12-22T06:28:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=34902"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:28:33","slug":"contemplated-retirement-after-2023-world-cup-final-defeat-rohit-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/contemplated-retirement-after-2023-world-cup-final-defeat-rohit-sharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemplated retirement after 2023 World Cup final defeat: Rohit Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In a stunning revelation, former India captain Rohit Sharma said he contemplated retirement after the heartbreaking loss to Australia in the 2023 ODI World Cup final as he \u201cfelt that the sport had taken everything out of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under the captaincy of Rohit, the Indian team enjoyed a dream run in that tournament at home and marched into the final with nine consecutive wins. However, Australia dashed their hopes in the game that mattered the most, with Travis Head scoring a match-winning hundred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter 2023 World Cup final, I was completed distraught and felt like I didn\u2019t want to play this sport anymore because it had taken everything out of me and I felt I had nothing left,\u201d Rohit said during a Masters Union event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took some time and I kept reminding myself that this is something I truly love, that it was right in front of me, and I couldn\u2019t let it go so easy. Slowly, I found my way back, regaining the energy and getting myself moving again on the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody was extremely disappointed, and we just couldn\u2019t believe what had happened. It was a very tough time for me personally because I had put everything into that World Cup not just two or three months before it, but ever since I took over the captaincy in 2022,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Rohit, who has retired from T20Is and Tests and was removed from ODI captaincy earlier this year, continues to play the 50-over format and would like to end his career with one final attempt at the 2027 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy only goal was to win the World Cup, whether it was the T20 World Cup or the 2023 World Cup. So when it didn\u2019t happen, I was completely devastated. There was no energy left in my body. It took me a couple of months to recover and bring myself back,\u201d said Rohit.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a year after that loss to Australia in Ahmedabad, Rohit led the Indian team to the T20 World Cup title in the Americas, but overcoming the pain of the defeat in November 2023 was extremely difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess when you invest so much into something and don\u2019t achieve the result, it\u2019s a very natural reaction. That\u2019s exactly what happened with me. But I also knew that life doesn\u2019t end there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a big lesson for me how to deal with disappointment, reset, and start fresh. I knew that something else was coming the 2024 T20 World Cup in the USA and West Indies and I had to shift all my focus towards that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very easy to say this now, but at that moment, it was extremely difficult,\u201d Rohit said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34903\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34903\" src=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Unknown-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Contemplated retirement after 2023 World Cup final defeat: Rohit Sharma\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Unknown-2.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Unknown-2-233x130.jpeg 233w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Unknown-2-230x129.jpeg 230w, 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