“I feel disappointed, but...” uttered Rohit Sharma after a month of silence as he reflected on India's heart-wrenching defeat in the 2023 World Cup finals.
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00:00It wasn't easy to digest.
00:02Along with us, they were dreaming of lifting that World Cup.
00:06After that finals, it was very hard to get back and start moving.
00:31I had no idea how to come back from this.
00:35The first few days, I didn't know what to do.
00:37My family, my friends kept me going.
00:41Kept things pretty light around me, which was quite helpful.
00:47It wasn't easy to digest.
00:50But yeah, life moves on. You have to move on in life.
00:54But honestly, it was tough.
00:57It was not so easy to just move on.
01:00I've always grown up watching the 50-year-old World Cup.
01:04And to me, that was the ultimate prize.
01:07The 50-year-old World Cup.
01:09So we've worked all these years for that World Cup.
01:14And it is disappointing, right?
01:17If you don't get through it and you don't get what you want,
01:21what you've been looking for all this while,
01:23what you were dreaming of.
01:26You get disappointed and you get frustrated as well at times.
01:31I thought we did everything we could from our side.
01:34If someone asked me, what went wrong?
01:37Because we won 10 games.
01:40And in that 10 games, yes, we made mistakes.
01:43But that mistake happens in every game that you play.
01:47You cannot have a perfect game.
01:49You can have a near-perfect game, but you cannot have a perfect game.
01:53If I look on the other side of it, I am really proud of the team as well.
01:57Because how we played was simply outstanding.
02:00Because you don't get to perform like that every World Cup.
02:06And I'm pretty sure at least how we played up until that finals,
02:11it would have given people a lot of joy, a lot of pride watching the team play.
02:18After that finals, it was very hard to get back and start moving,
02:24which is why I decided that I need to go somewhere and just get my mind out of this.
02:33But then wherever I was, I realized that people were coming up to me
02:38and they were appreciating everyone's effort, how well we played.
02:42Yeah, I mean, I feel for all of them, right?
02:45Because they all along with us, they were dreaming of lifting that World Cup along with us.
02:51Everywhere we went during this entire World Cup campaign,
02:55there was so much support from everyone who came to the stadium firstly
03:01and then people who were watching it from home as well.
03:04I want to appreciate what people have done for us in that one and a half months.
03:12But again, if I think more and more on that, I just feel quite disappointed
03:16that we were not able to go through all the way.
03:19For me to see people coming up to me and telling me that they were very proud of the team
03:26made me feel really good to a certain extent.
03:30And along with them, I was healing as well because I felt,
03:39okay, this is the kind of things that you want to hear.
03:43When you meet people, when they understand what the player must be going through
03:49and when they know these kind of things and not to bring out that frustration, that anger,
03:56it means a lot for us.
04:00For me, definitely it meant a lot because there was no anger.
04:04It was just pure love from the people that I met.
04:08And it was wonderful to see that.
04:10So, it gives you motivation to get back and start working again
04:14and look for another ultimate prize.