'We can lift it' Rohit Sharma poses with World Cup 2023 trophy, confident of team's success at home

Indian skipper Rohit Sharma believes that the home side has a chance to lift the World Cup 2023 trophy. Rohit said that he and Team India will be banking on the immense home support at every venue as they aim to win their first ICC title in a decade. India will host the ODI World Cup after 12 years, which is also the last time India won the prestigious tournament.

“I’ve never seen it so close. Even when we won in 2011, I was not part of the squad. But yeah, it looks beautiful, so many memories behind the trophy as well, the past, the history,” Rohit said while holding the trophy.

“Yeah, so, it looks beautiful and hopefully we can lift it, fingers crossed,” Rohit, who is currently in the United States, was quoted as saying by the ICC.

The tournament beginning October 5 will be played across 10 venues in India.

“I know for a fact that every ground, every venue that we will be travelling to will get massive support. You know, it’s the World Cup, so everyone is looking forward to this and the World Cup coming back to India after 12 years… “…you know 2011 was the last time we played a 50-over World Cup. We played a 20-over World Cup in 2016 but a 50-over World Cup after 12 years in the country, people are quite excited and we can see the buzz already back home. I’ll be looking forward to playing in all venues.”

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“2011 was a memorable one for all of us, I remember watching it from home, every single match, every single ball which was being bowled and that was being played.

“There were two kinds of emotions, one was obviously I was not a part of it, so I was a little disappointed. I decided I was not going to watch the World Cup, but again, the second memory I remember was that India was playing so well, quarter-finals onwards.” Rohit had excelled in the 2019 edition in which he amassed five hundreds.

“And 2015 and 2019, I was a part of it, which felt really good to play the World Cup. We went to the semi-finals, tried everything we could to go to the finals and play well in the finals, but again, a very unfortunate incident where we couldn’t go through to the finals,” he said.

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Rohit feels the key to emerge victorious in the showpiece would be to start fresh in every game.

“I know every day is a fresh day. Every day is a fresh start, it’s not like Test match cricket where you have the momentum with you and you carry the momentum to the next day.

“One-day cricket, limited overs format is like that, that’s where the challenge comes. You’ve to start fresh every day and you know that’s where I was (in 2019),” he said.

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