“It'll be a good thing”- Rohit Sharma shared his thoughts on India winning maiden test series in South Africa

 Rohit Sharma will lead India in the two match test series against South Africa.

Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma has stated that a win in the test series against South Africa will not make up for the team’s defeat in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023. However, Rohit, in his trademark sarcastic flair, stated that they had put in a lot of effort over the last few months and deserved to win something.

Before the first test match between India and South Africa, which begins on December 26 in Centurion, Rohit was questioned about his feelings following the World Cup final loss to Australia, and he indicated that all of the players will be desperate to rebound from that defeat.

“We have never won a Test series in South Africa and it’ll be a big thing if we do it here. I do not know whether it’ll be able to take away the pain of World Cup defeat. If we are able to achieve it then it’ll be a good thing. Itna Mehnat Kiya hai to kuch to chahiye humko,” Rohit said at the press conference.

South Africa remains somewhat of a ‘final frontier’ for Indian cricket team as they have never won a test series on Proteas grounds.

Rohit Sharma on India losing the ICC World Cup 2023 final to Australia

Given that this was Rohit’s first media appearance since the World Cup, he was asked about the sad video he made around a week ago, as well as concerns about ‘moving on’ from the heartbreak.

Indian captain acknowledged that there is so much cricket going on these days that players must move on. Despite his delay, the opener said that he has come forward and is looking forward to fresh challenges.

“The way we played, you expect to go an inch further. Unfortunately, we couldn’t do it. That was the hard part. You saw how we managed to play the 10 games. We didn’t do certain things well in the final and that’s why we lost. It is hard but there’s so much happening in life, so much cricket, you’ve got to find the strength. It took me time to come out but you’ve got to move on. We got a lot of encouragement from the outside world and that motivated me personally to get up,” Rohit added.

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