4 min learnMar 15, 2026 12:19 AM IST
Former captain Rohit Sharma on Saturday hoped that India’s males’s and girls’s groups will construct on their momentum of profitable T20 and 50-over World Cup respectively, and can fetch extra laurels to the nation in future.
India have recorded a string of wins in ICC occasions from the time Rohit led the group to T20 World Cup win in 2024. It was adopted by the Harmanpreet Kaur-led aspect recording their maiden title win in Girls’s ODI World Cup in 2025, a yr during which the ladies’s U-19 group additionally clinched the worldwide T20 title.
India started 2026, bagging the U-19 ODI World Cup for a file sixth time whereas the Suryakumar Yadav-led seniors turned the primary to win the T20 World Cup for a file third time final Sunday.
“I’m very completely happy and really proud to see what now we have been seeing for the final couple of years now,” Rohit, the face of the T20 Mumbai League, stated through the announcement of the fourth version for males and inaugural iteration for girls right here.
“To come back out with flying colors and obtain what now we have achieved, not simply the boys’s group but in addition the ladies’s group profitable that World Cup in (Navi) Mumbai was incredible to look at,” he added.
The Mumbai man hoped that extra international titles are on India’s means.
“Not too long ago, the boys’s group, what they did was phenomenal. I hope that is simply the beginning, there isn’t any wanting again from right here as a result of when you get that momentum… we regularly discuss momentum and now each the boys’s and girls’s groups have that momentum. All I hope is that we feature this momentum ahead,” Rohit stated.
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The previous India skipper additionally doffed his hat to the individuals who work “behind the scenes” to make the success potential.
“There isn’t a secret to success, it’s all about onerous work. The lads’s and girls’s group have labored actually onerous to attain what they’ve achieved at this time,” he stated.
“After all, it’s not simply concerning the gamers who carry out on the sector, there are such a lot of individuals behind the scene who’ve put in a lot of onerous work into that success in order that the group can have success. Lots of people and personnel to provide due to,” Rohit added.
The 38-year-old stated aside from placing within the onerous yards, a participant rising up additionally wants luck on his aspect to be on the proper place in proper time.
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“When gamers are picked within the nationwide group there’s a purpose why they’ve been picked. We have now seen there’s a lot competitors in our nation after we discuss cricket. Proper from U-14s you bought to be fortunate; after all you want the expertise to seek out success however you additionally received to be fortunate to be on the proper time on the proper place for individuals to note you.
“Typically you might be as proficient as you might be but when individuals are not watching you, then you definately might be barely unfortunate. You bought to fortunate as effectively however there isn’t any substitute to onerous work and that isn’t simply with the Mumbaikars but in addition with the gamers who’re representing the nation,” he stated.
T20 Mumbai had returned after a brief hiatus final yr for a 3rd version and the eight-team males’s league can even have a three-team ladies’s competitors happening concurrently this season.
“It was a troublesome activity proper after the IPL received over and monsoon had simply began. I received to provide credit score to every member of the MCA (Mumbai Cricket Affiliation) to tug that by, making three video games in a day occur shouldn’t be simple.
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“Additionally an enormous, massive spherical of applause to all of the groundsmen as effectively who put their fingers up and received the grounds prepared, which is why I stated there isn’t any substitute to onerous work. With three new (ladies’s) groups added, it’s getting larger,” he stated.