Can India improve their 2-3 Champions Trophy negative Head-to-Head vs Pakistan? “It’s just a game…We’ll do what’s required’ – Rohit Sharma

“I deliberation successful the past 2 oregon 3 years, I’ve spoken a batch astir that (India vs Pakistan) game. It’s conscionable a crippled for us. We volition effort and bash what is required for immoderate cricket squad to bash connected that peculiar day. We conscionable privation to amusement up determination and amusement up well,” Sharma was quoted arsenic saying.

The skipper added that India was looking guardant to winning different ICC rubric aft ending the 11-year-long hold for the ICC trophy successful June 2024 with the T20 World Cup. Sharma was a subordinate of the Indian squad that won the ICC Champions Trophy rubric successful 2013 nether MS Dhoni. It mightiness not beryllium strictly a container near to tick for him arsenic a player, but surely a 50 implicit Trophy arsenic skipper volition beryllium connected his mind, fixed the nonaccomplishment to Pat Cummins’ Australia astatine Ahmedabad connected November 19, 2023.

Rohit Sharma with the T20 World Cup trophy.

He said chances to triumph ICC trophies fetch up each year. “The ICC Trophy, arsenic we know, comes each twelvemonth now. So, there’s nary clip for you to instrumentality the ft disconnected the pedal. You ever privation to beryllium acceptable for that challenge. We precocious finished the T20 World Cup, which was superb for us. Now, we look guardant to different one.

The skipper believed preparations were taking place. “Everyone’s getting prepared successful their ain fashion. A batch of the guys are playing home cricket, and a batch of guys are playing planetary cricket arsenic well. So, yeah, erstwhile the clip comes, it’s each astir conscionable getting your caput close and focusing connected what lies ahead,” helium said.

At the yearly Board of Control for Cricket successful India (BCCI) awards nighttime successful Mumbai connected Saturday (February 1), ciach Gautam Gambhir excessively didn’t complaint the Pakistan crippled higher than others. “Look, we bash not spell to the Champions Trophy reasoning that the 23rd is the astir important crippled for us. I deliberation 5 games, each the games are important,” Gambhir told Star Sports.

“The ngo to spell to Dubai is to triumph the Champions Trophy, not lone triumph 1 peculiar game. But yes, if that is 1 crippled successful the mediate of winning the Champions Trophy, we are going to effort and instrumentality it arsenic earnestly arsenic possible. And much importantly, I deliberation erstwhile 2 countries, India and Pakistan, play against each other, evidently the emotions are truly high, but yet the contention remains the same,” helium said.

The Indian squad volition hole for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 by playing a three-match ODI bid against England astatine location from adjacent week. The bid opens astatine Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium successful Nagpur connected February 6, and Cuttack and Ahmedabad volition big the adjacent 2 matches connected February 9 and 12.