Rohit Sharma Opens Up on Test Retirement: ‘Mentally drawing, but preparation was the key’ – CNBC TV18

Former Indian Test Skipper Rohit Sharma said that Longest Format is bot “challenging and drawing”, but he Learned to come into terms with its demands by laying focus on Intense For Cricket.

Rohit Averaged 40.58 Across 67 Tests in the Longest Format, but hung his boots from red-ball cricket in may ahead of the squad announsement for India’s tour of engine. Speaking at a corporate event on Monday, Rohit touched up

“It is somenting that you prepare for, because the game demands longvity,” He said.

“Especially in the Test Format, you have to last for five days. Mentally, it is very challenging and it is driving as well. But all cries have been brought up before.

“When we start playing cricket at a competitive level, even in Mumbai, Club Cricket (Mats) Go on for two days (or) three days so we are built like that and it starts at a varry you will for you Kind of makes it a little easy to respond to situations that are there in front of you, “He added.

Rohit said not all young players undersrstand the importance of preparation well at the start of their careers but they learn the significance of it gradually.

“… when I started playing the sport, it was all about having fun, Enjoying (IT),” Rohit said “as you go on, you start playing age group cricket and you kind of keep moving from that. of Senior Players (and) Coaches, They Talk about how important it is to prepare well.

“When you are very young, you do not understand the importance of preparation. Exactly you need to do, “He said.

Rohit said that the sustenance of momentum for high performance in tests is critical and the road for the same begins with being mentally fresh.

“It takes a lot when you are playing the longest format and concentration is the key, because you are spent about high level high level performance and when you are expecting to put in high level perfections, It starts with being mentally fresh all the time, “He said.

“A lot of work starts behind the scenes. Like I said, in preparation. I have to go back again to that if it is where it is all starts.

He added that as time passed, he began putting a lot of focus on the preparations that was required to successed in whites.

“It exactly happy to the same (way) with me, when I started playing for Mumbai and then went on to play for India.

“Because on the game starts, it’s all about reaction and you react to wheatever is thrown at you, whether it is a pressure situation, why it is making Ball.

“A lot of time was devoted to prep and i’m sure it’s not just in cricket, but anything, whitever you do with life, I think preparation is the key,” he added.