Rohit struck 138 off 110 balls in defeat by England in their third ODI, which some speculated could be his last for India.<\/p>\n
Published On 20 Jul 202620 Jul 2026<\/p>\n
Former India captain Rohit Sharma \u2060has dismissed \u2060speculation over his international future, saying his sole focus remains on representing the country and contributing to the team\u2019s success.<\/p>\n
\u2060The 39-year-old\u2019s comments came after he struck a blistering 138 off 110 balls in India\u2019s unsuccessful chase in the third and final one-day international against England on Sunday amid reports that the match at Lord\u2019s could be his last appearance in Indian colours.<\/p>\n
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Sharma has long said he plans to play in the ICC World Cup in 2027, which is to be jointly hosted by South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia.<\/p>\n
The hundred ended a lean run in which Sharma had gone 11 ODIs without reaching \u200cthree figures, a stretch that fuelled questions about his place before next year\u2019s World Cup. However, the opener retained the backing of the team\u2019s management.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy job is with the bat, come and play, represent my country, represent my team. That\u2019s what I have been told to do \u2060since my debut, so that\u2019s what I am \u2060going to do,\u201d Sharma said in an interview on the website of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe noise since I made my debut was there. And till the time I am \u2060going to stay here, it is always going to be there.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it doesn\u2019t really matter too \u2060much. What matters is what I do \u2060on the field, try and contribute to the success of the team. That\u2019s all my focus is right now. And let the noise be there. If there is no \u200cnoise, there is no fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite Rohit\u2019s innings, India lost the match and conceded the ODI series 2-1.<\/p>\n
India next travel to Zimbabwe for a \u200cthree-match \u200cTwenty20 International series from Thursday through Sunday before touring Sri Lanka for a Test series next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rohit struck 138 off 110 balls in defeat by England in their third ODI, which some speculated could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[1724,64,63,740,2057,1209,44,588,85,3586],"class_list":["post-812478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-europe","tag-india","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}