As the last ball of the T20 World Cup final was played, the Indian skipper, Rohit Sharma laid flat on the ground and pounded it several times. It was his way of letting the world know that his and India’s 13-year wait for a World Cup was finally over. This was followed by hugs, tears, screams and dance moves.
After doing all this with his teammates and the support staff, Rohit quietly walked towards the centre of the pitch, plucked a piece from it and put it in his mouth. It felt so good that he did it again. Later, Rohit revealed that he did so because he wanted to keep a part of the pitch with him.
“You know… I was feeling the moment when I went to the pitch because that pitch gave us this. We played on that particular pitch and we won the game, that particular ground as well. I will remember that ground forever in my life and that pitch as well. So I wanted to have a piece of it with me. So yeah, those moments are very, very special. And the place where all our dreams came true, I wanted something of it. That was the feeling behind it,” he said in a video posted by BCCI.
When asked about his other celebrations, Rohit said that, “See, those things are actually not… I do not think I can describe that because nothing was scripted. It was… It was all… You know, whatever was coming instinctively,”
With India’s T20 World Cup triumph, Rohit became only the third Indian captain after Kapil Dev and MS Dhoni to win a World Cup.
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