Indian Cricket's Future Is In Safe Hands, Says Rohit Sharma

Following his team's unbeaten run in the ICC Champions Trophy, the Indian skipper Rohit Sharma said that the future of Indian cricket is in safe hands, with plenty of young talent displaying the hunger, passion and talent needed on international level.

India's winning Champions Trophy campaign witnessed key contributions from seniors as well as from youngsters. While Shubman Gill scored 188 runs in five matches with a century, Shreyas Iyer (243 runs in five matches with two fifties), Axar Patel (109 runs in five matches with five wickets) and Hardik Pandya (99 runs in four matches and four wickets), KL Rahul (140 runs in five matches at an average of 140.00), Varun Chakravarthy (nine wickets) also played crucial roles in the team's second successive white-ball title win.

Sharma said the way his India side made it undefeated through the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is indicative of their passion and commitment - and it bodes well for the future.

Asked whether he agreed that the team could dominate international cricket over the next decade, Rohit talked about how the set-up has been created in order to support the progress of young talent.

"That is the whole point," he was quoted as saying by ICC. "You want to create your bench strength while you are playing. Whenever we had the opportunity in the last four or five years, we have always tried to give opportunities to all these players. They have grabbed it."

He added that young players were shining across all formats of the game, giving rise to plenty of debates around selection.

"When you are discussing about which player to pick, who to drop, who is going to miss out on the opening eleven, that tells you there is so much depth in this team," he said.

On the white-ball front, India are now aiming to win the next two global events, the 2026 T20 World Cup on home soil (and co-hosted by Sri Lanka) and the 2027 ODI World Cup in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia.

"I can surely say that Indian cricket for the future is in very, very safe hands, looking at how the players are coming up, how they want to take that responsibility, how much hunger is there," said Rohit who was named man-of-the-match in the final against New Zealand for his 76.

"The passion, the talent, all of that is there. It is just about now going out there and doing it.

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