Rohit — breaking the shackles of self-doubt in typical ‘Hitman’ fashion
It’s impossible to even venture into imagining what Rohit Sharma must have gone through over the last four months. What started off as one low score mushroomed into two, then four, then a half-dozen. His form became an issue of national debate; every press conference, understandably, focused on the lack of runs. It came to such a pass that, unprecedentedly, Rohit sat himself out of the decisive Sydney Test at the start of the year, believing his form as it was then didn’t warrant a place in the playing XI.Throughout this depressing phase, the 37-year-old put on a brave exterior. He wasn’t feisty or combative, lacing his answers with typical humour – his closest friends will tell you that no one is more capable of laughing at one’s misfortunes without rancour – but one could see that he was...
