Opinion: Rohit Sharma Comes Full Circle With 2025 Champion’s Trophy. He Has Too Much Fight To Give Up Just Yet

Rohit Sharma may not be as trim as he used to be in the past, but that didn’t prevent him from playing a captain’s knock in the final of the 2025 ICC Champion's Trophy.

Source : PTI

When Ravichandran Ashwin announced his shock retirement in the middle of the Border-Gavaskar Test series against Australia last December, it was left to Captain Rohit Sharma to take questions from the journalists assembled at Adelaide. The Indian skipper declared that Ashwin deserved to go out on his own terms, and that the team respected his decision — even as the likes of Sunil Gavaskar criticised the timing of the off-spinner’s retirement, with the series deadlocked 1-1.