Indian cricketing greats Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli brought down the curtain on their international careers in the shortest format with a T20 World Cup triumph that June.
However, this was only an added bonus for modern-day legends Rohit and Virat, as both decided to call it quits from their T20I careers after India overcame South Africa to win their second T20 World Cup crown at Barbados.
In this short form of cricket, these two run machines were the flag bearers of Indian hopes for over 15 years till they bowed out at the peak.
According to former Indian spinner Amit Mishra in a viral video, he reveals what separates Rohit from Virat; “The difference is in the nature. Rohit is very open with his players. A very good thing about Rohit is that when I met him for the first time, he had not changed.” So who would you relate to more – the one who stays the same or the one who changes according to the situation?”
He further says: “Yes, there was hardly any talk between us,” when asked if he has seen any change in Virat Kohli.
Amit Mishra said during a podcast: “Yes of course. Fame and power were the reasons because when you get power, you feel everybody is talking to you because of something. That’s how Virat Kohli changed after getting fame, power and captaincy.”
During T20 World Cup matches series Kohli hardly made any runs but his match-winning 76 earned him player of final award thus leading team frontline by hitting three half-centuries in that tournament where India remained unbeaten
Kohli won his second world cup at 35 after winning ODI championship under MS Dhoni in 2011 who also led India to title victory in T20’s showpiece event during its inaugural edition back in 2007.
It happened when India defeated arch-rivals Pakistan in the final of 2007 being played in Johannesburg where a rookie Rohit, 37 now, also featured.
Both of them have accumulated 45,961 runs between themselves across three international formats and will continue to play test cricket as well as one-day internationals.
However, this T20 victory is redemption for Rohit after he was remove from Mumbai Indians’ captaincy in this year’s IPL.
During the whole tournament except the finale game, which saw his blistering knock of 59-ball innings with score of 76, Kohli had gone through a drought having scored only 75 runs out of seven matches.
White ball skipper since 2021 replacing Kohli and then took over all-format captaincy later on thus ending India’s global title drought subsequent to their Champions Trophy win six years ago.
