Watch | Rohit Sharma eats grass from Barbados pitch after India clinch T20 World Cup trophy

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1 min read 30 Jun 2024, 11:28 AM IST

Rohit Sharma guided India to T20 World Cup triumph aft 17 years, celebrating emotionally with the team. His grass-eating enactment mirrored Djokovic's tradition, portion helium besides announced his status from T20 cricket, expressing his affectional travel and long-awaited rubric win.

Rohit Sharma eating writer from Barbados pitch. (Twitter/X)

Indian skipper Rohit Sharma led the Men successful Blue brilliantly to a T20 World Cup trophy aft a spread of 17 years connected Saturday. Soon aft the victory, temper successful the Indian campy turned affectional with players rejoicing the triumph astatine marquee lawsuit aft intimately losing retired during the WTC Final and ODI World Cup Final successful little than a year's time.

Rohit looked peculiarly affectional arsenic helium thumped his hands and laid level connected the crushed to instrumentality successful the magnificient victory. The Indian skipper was besides seen crying and sharing immoderate affectional moments with each Indian squad members including Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya.

However, a infinitesimal that has gotten everyone's attraction is Rohit eating writer from the Barbados pitch. While Rohit hasn't spoken connected the incidental yet, the enactment of eating Barbados writer whitethorn beryllium an effort by the Indian skipper to instrumentality a portion of World Cup winning transportation with him. The video was posted by the authoritative ICC grip connected Instagram and has received implicit 17 lakh likes connected Instagram.

Notably, the solemnisation mirrored those shown by Serbian Tennis prima Novak Djokovic has eaten writer from the tribunal aft each Wimbeldon rubric triumph since 2014. Notably, Rohit besides tried (and failed) to reflector the trophy lifting celebation of Lionel Messi astatine the presumption ceremonial connected Saturday.

Rohit retires from T20 cricket:

In a astonishing determination connected Saturday, Rohit besides announced that helium has played his past T20 planetary lucifer for India. Speaking astatine the post-match enactment with the press, Rohit said, “This was my past (T20) crippled arsenic well… No amended clip to accidental goodbye to this format. I've loved each infinitesimal of this. I started my India vocation playing this format. This is what I wanted, I wanted to triumph the cup."

"I wanted this badly. Very hard to enactment successful words. It was a precise affectional infinitesimal for me. I was precise hopeless for this rubric successful my life. Happy that we yet crossed the line." the Indian skipper added.

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Published: 30 Jun 2024, 11:28 AM IST