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Former Indian captain Rohit Sharma, who propelled India to the ICC T20 World Cup title and ICC Champions Trophy silverware, has opened up on his celebration after winning the T20 WC silverware back in 2024, after defeating South Africa in Barbados.
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Rohit, who is the brand ambassador for the forthcoming ICC T20 World Cup 2026, while speaking to the ICC, has revealed that before the trophy presentation ceremony, his teammates suggested different types of celebrations, but he went ahead with a celebration that he had watched in a football match and decided to try it out as it came naturally to him.
"Yeah, there were a lot of talks before, you know, that ceremony happened. The guys were telling me, You should do this, you should walk like this, you should do that. I said, Please move aside. I am just going to do what comes to me naturally. I don't want to risk for going and collecting the trophy. It's a beautiful moment, and I want to live it. And what I did was just naturally what came to me. You know, it is a celebration that I have often seen in a football match. And I quite liked it," he said.
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Furthermore, the opening batter also disclosed that he even used that particular celebration during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, when he caught a batter in the slips, but the cameras missed capturing the celebration.
"It is something I did in the 2019 World Cup also. Nobody noticed it, but I did it in the 2019 World Cup, also when I took a catch in the slip. But usually, when you take a wicket, the camera pans onto a bowler or a batter who got out, not the fielder who has taken a catch. It was a beautiful catch that I took in the slips. Unfortunately, the camera was not on me. But that is when I did it," he recalled.
"It was just a couple of days before that game. I was watching a football game, and I loved the celebration. I was like, oh, it is pretty cool. Maybe I will try it someday," he concluded.
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