After T20 World Cup 2024, Rohit-Virat said goodbye to T20, ended the game as champions
In the final match of T20 World Cup 2024, India defeated South Africa by seven runs and won the title of World Champion.
In such a situation, after winning the final match, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have said goodbye to T20 International. Both the legendary players (Rohit-Virat) have retired from the T20 format. Virat announced this after the match. While Rohit announced it in a press conference. In such a situation, both of them retired after making India the T20 champion.
T20 career of Rohit-Virat
Let us tell you that Rohit has been a part of the Indian team in T20 format since 2007 and Kohli since 2010. During this, both of them made many records in their name. Kohli started his T20 international career on 12 June 2010. In such a situation, he played his last match in June itself after 14 years.
Virat has played 125 matches in his T20 career. He has scored 4188 runs at an average of 48.69. Which includes one century and 38 half-centuries. At the same time, Rohit has scored 4,231 runs in 159 matches. Which includes five centuries. In this format, he is the second highest run-scorer after Virat.
Virat retires from T20 format
Let us tell you that after the T20 World Cup Final match was over, while talking to the broadcaster, Kohli announced his retirement. Kohli said that this was his last T20 World Cup. This was his last T20 match for India. We wanted to win the cup. He further said that even if we had lost, he would have retired. This is the time to give a chance to the young player. It was a long wait for us to win the ICC tournament.
Rohit also said goodbye
At the same time, Rohit also announced his retirement by holding a press conference. Talking about retirement, Rohit said that there could not be a better time than this. Rohit said that he was very desperate to win the T20 World Cup trophy. He wanted the team to win and it did happen. This time we were successful. Rohit said that he will not play T20 format. However, he will still play for the team in Test and ODI. He said that there could not be a better time than this to say goodbye.
