NEW DELHI: Team India, led by captain Rohit Sharma and batting stalwart Virat Kohli, is determined to overcome the disappointment of losing the ODI World Cup at home. Their primary focus now shifts towards clinching victory in the upcoming T20 World Cup, just a few months away.
India, who last won the T20 World Cup way back in 2007 under Mahendra Singh Dhoni's captaincy, suffered a six-wicket defeat at the hands of Australia in the ODI World Cup final.
Former India cricketer Piyush Chawla feels the senior pros - Virat and Rohit - would want to do something 'special' to add an ICC silverware to their elusive cabinet.
The upcoming ICC T20 World Cup is scheduled to take place from June 4 to 30 this year, hosted jointly by the West Indies and the United States.
1/10:Indian cricket in 2023: Statistical highlights
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2/10:Test cricket
<p>Indian men's cricket team played 8 Tests, 35 ODIs and 23 T20Is in 2023. India won 3 Tests, lost 3 and 2 ended in draws.</p>Getty Images
3/10:White-ball formats
<p>Out of 35 ODIs, India won 27, lost 7 and 1 ended in No Result. Out of 23 T20Is, India won 15, lost 7 and 1 ended in No Result.</p>Getty Images
4/10:Mohammed Shami
<p>With his career-best bowling performance of 7/57 in the first semifinal vs New Zealand on November 15, Mohammed Shami became the first Indian to bag a seven-wicket haul in ODIs/World Cup.</p>Getty Images
5/10:World Cup record
<p>Mohammed Shami remains the only bowler to bag a seven-for in World Cup knockouts.</p>Getty Images
6/10:Virat Kohli
<p>Virat Kohli became the first batsman to hit 50 ODI hundreds, breaking the record of Sachin Tendulkar (49).</p>Getty Images
7/10:Most tons
<p>Virat Kohli hit 8 hundreds in 2023 — six in 27 ODIs and two in eight Tests - the most by an Indian batter in international cricket.</p>Getty Images
8/10:World Cup record
<p>Virat Kohli's 765 runs at an average of 95.62, including three hundreds and six fifties, in 11 innings in the 2023 World Cup is a record.</p>Getty Images
9/10:Rohit Sharma
<p>Rohit Sharma's 67 sixes in 26 innings this year is a world record for most sixes by any batter in a calendar year in ODIs, surpassing the 58 in 18 innings by AB de Villiers in 2015.</p>Getty Images
10/10:HITMAN
<p>Rohit Sharma's 31 sixes in eleven innings in the 2023 World Cup is a record for most sixes by any batter in a single edition of the World Cup. </p>Getty Images“You can look at it differently as well because Kohli and Rohit must be thinking the other way (Asked if they will carry baggage from the past). They want to do something special to really win the World Cup," Piyush Chawla told Star Sports.
"You don’t think like there is baggage or something because once you are on the field, you don’t think about what happened in the past, you are just living that current situation. If you ask me personally, I would say that experience matters in crunch situations,” he said.
Virat signed off the 2023 ICC ODI World Cup with 765 runs in 11 matches, including the record-breaking 50th ODI century. He batted at an average of 95.62 in the mega competition.
Three centuries and six half centuries - that's how Virat stamped his authority in the 13th edition of the quadrennial event and was deservingly named 'Player of the Tournament'.
The Indian run-machine surpassed the tally of 673 runs scored by a single batter in the 2003 World Cup. The record was previously held by his idol Sachin Tendulkar.
