Lucky I am back on my feet playing again: Rohit
nagpur — “There will always be regrets in life but I am glad that I am back on my feet playing cricket again,” Rohit Sharma said when asked if 22 Test matches in an international career spanning 10 years does justice to the talent that he possesses.
Playing his first Test in more than a year after recovering from a career-threatening injury, Rohit scored his third hundred first ton in longest version in more than four years.
“There will always be regrets in your life. Even if you score 10,000 runs, you will feel, ‘oh, I should have scored 15,000 runs’ or people will tell you, ‘you should have scored 15,000 runs, man!,” he said.
“But for me, I am glad that I am back on my feet, because when I went through that injury (thigh surgery in 2016), at one point I was thinking whether I will be able to walk or not. “I’m lucky that I am on my feet, playing and scoring some runs, so yes, I’m happy,” Rohit said after India defeated Sri Lanka by an innings and 239 in the second Test. Currently India’s second best player in ODIs after skipper Virat Kohli, Rohit said he wants to live in the present and let bygones be bygones.
“I am not someone who will think about what has happened in the past. I like to see what is in front of me, and yes, that is how I look at it. When I was inexperienced having just come into the team, there were lot of things that I used to think about, but not anymore.”—