“There’s no secret to success, it’s all about hard work,” Rohit said in Mumbai on Saturday. “International cricketers – men’s and women’s – they work really, really hard to achieve what they have achieved. Of course, it’s not just the players who perform on the field but there’s so many people behind the scenes as well who put in so much hard work into that success. So a lot of people and personnel to give credit to.
“I feel very, very happy and proud to see what we’ve been seeing for the last couple of years now to come out with flying colours and achieve what we have achieved, not just men’s team but also women’s team to win that World Cup in Mumbai was fantastic to watch. And recently now what the men’s team did to win the T20 World Cup, what they did was phenomenal. And I hope this is just the start, there’s no looking back from here because once you get the momentum – and we often talk about momentum in cricket – both men’s and women’s teams have, all I hope is that we carry this momentum.”
Rohit himself started this streak of India lifting ICC titles when he led them to the 2024 T20 World Cup glory in June 2024 and then the Champions Trophy title in March 2025. To add to that, India’s Under-19 teams, both men and women, also won their last respective World Cups. The Under-19 men’s team lifted the trophy only last month under Ayush Mhatre in Zimbabwe whereas the Under-19 women won the trophy in 2025 under Niki Prasad in Malaysia.
