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Criticisms Should Not Have Any Agenda: Rohit Sharma
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India are scheduled to play five Tests in England after the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, with Rohit Sharma likely to captain the side, but the opener isn’t looking too far ahead. In his last eight Tests, the opener has only managed 164 runs in 15 innings at an average of 10.93. Rohit, however, wants to focus on winning the sixth IPL title for the Mumbai Indians (MI).
“I haven’t thought much about the England tour yet. IPL is going on now. We want to win the IPL. My thoughts are all about this. I have said before also, focus on what’s going on now. I believe in that,” Rohit said in a chat on journalist Vimal Kumar’s YouTube channel.
Overall, the 38-year-old has scored 4301 runs in 67 Tests at an average of 40.57, studded with 12 centuries and 18 fifties. “As long as you play a sport, you will never be happy with the performance!
“I am happy with what god has given me rather than think about why I didn’t do this, that. It’s all written in the destiny – you will get this amount. Whatever I do, I am going to get only this. I don’t want to be hyper self-critical with Test cricket; I am happy with what I have done.
“You don’t have to live to keep other people’s expectations; it’s about what you want. What the world thinks expects doesn’t matter as they are not part of my journey. No one knows how I have dealt with training, handled ups and downs in my life, no one apart from your close ins don’t know about.I don’t keep unreal expectations, it’s simple and it’s my expectations.”
Under Rohit’s leadership, India were whitewashed 3-0 by New Zealand at home and then lost the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia after 10 years. But things have been different in white-ball cricket. India won the 2024 T20 World Cup and the 2025 Champions Trophy in the space of less than 12 months, and those trophies came under Rohit’s captaincy.
In IPL 2025, Rohit started the tournament with six low scores but then registered back-to-back fifties to return to form.
“I have understood the system: when you do well, the reaction is too much and same when you don’t do well. Too much on both times. What can I do about this? Just go with it. If you don’t do well, get ready for criticism. I am not saying one shouldn’t criticise but you have to be mindful of criticism. Just that it shouldn’t be personal and should not have any agenda. One who is sensible knows how to criticise.”