ST. LUCIA: It was the first media interaction with Rohit Sharma in this tournament, on the eve of India’s T20 World Cup opener with Ireland in New York. Normally, going into a tournament of this magnitude, you would expect a slightly cagey captain, someone holding his cards to his chest. In a departure from the trend, though, Rohit seemed extremely frank. It seemed he was tired of carrying the burden of a defeat in the ODI World Cup final in November last year and was just happy to let himself go.
When the captain says right at the beginning of the tournament that “our opening partnership won’t change through the tournament while the rest will go up and down as per necessity”, you know something has changed in Rohit. It is this sense of freedom in every step that the Indian captain has exercised over the last one month that paid rich dividends in a game of massive significance for India.
