Indian skipper Rohit Sharma recently in an interview mentioned how Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag weren’t able to get the captainship despite being great players.
Also he mentioned that he wanted to lead the team in his under 30 but didn’t get the chance then.
Now the World Cup has started and India will play their 1st match against Australia on 8th October in Chennai in which he will be leading the Indian side.
In that interview Rohit said,
“Obviously you want to be at your peak for this, say when you are 26-27. But you cannot always get what you want. You are talking about the Indian captaincy and there have been stalwarts in the Indian team. I had to wait for my turn and that’s absolutely fair enough. The guys before, Virat was before me, so was MS Dhoni.
Just look at the names that are missed out: Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, these are all stalwarts of Indian cricket. Not to forget Yuvraj Singh. He never captained India. Yuvraj has been such a match winner for India, he should have been the captain at some stage but he didn’t get it. That’s life. I got it now and I am grateful for it. I would rather have it when I know how to captain a team, when I know what is required and all. Rather than when I don’t know the ABCD of the captaincy. So in that respect, it is good.”