Follow Us‘Cricket isn’t all about individual success.’ If there’s one quote that sums up Rohit Sharma’s captaincy, then it's this one. The former Mumbai Indians skipper has also earned himself the tag of being a ‘selfless’ captain, with his changed approach to batting, where he doesn’t really care a lot about milestones.
“My target has never been to score a certain number of runs in a season," Rohit told journalist Vimal Kumar in a YouTube video.
"I want to win matches and for that, I have always given my best. It doesn’t matter if you score 600-700 runs and aren’t winning a trophy. It (The runs) won’t matter.”
Rohit has scored 293 runs in the ongoing IPL 2025 season, where he’s averaging 32.55, striking at 155.02, with three fifties.
“I have learned my lessons during the 2019 World Cup itself. If you aren’t able to reach final and win trophy then what will I do with those 500-600 runs? It might be good for me but not for the team," he said, driving home the point that winning as a unit always comes first.
MI have won five IPL trophies (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020), and never has an MI player won the Orange Cap in those editions, showing how the team has always been ahead of the numbers.
"Whenever MI has won a trophy, nobody from our team has won the Orange Cap. There’s a reason behind that," said Rohit.