After Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma too retires from T20 Internationals

Close on the heels of Virat Kohli announcing retirement from the T20 Internationals, India skipper Rohit Sharma too hung up his boots from the international level of the shortest format.

"No better time to say goodbye to this format. I have loved every moment of this. I started my India career playing this format," Rohit said in the post-match press conference.

“This has to be the greatest time. It's only because how desperately I wanted to win this. I am not big on stats and all of that. I think winning games for India, winning trophies for India, that is what I look forward to all the time," said Rohit, who led India to their second T20 World Cup and the first ICC trophy in 11 years. He hit match-winning half-centuries in the semifinal and the final match of the last 8 stage. 

"And having this now right beside me probably has to be definitely one of the greatest, I can say that. I wanted this badly. It's very hard to put it in words because that moment, I don't want to say what I was thinking and what was going in my mind, but it was a very emotional moment personally for me.

"I wish I could capture that moment myself but not really, you can't do that but I will always remember that. Yeah, those are the moments you wait for and then you don't plan these things, it just happens because you're so desperate for certain things in life and I was very desperate for this in my life. So happy that we eventually crossed the line this time."

Rohit scored 4,231 runs 159 matches at an average of 32.05 and a strike rate of 140.89.

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