{"id":195370,"date":"2025-10-12T17:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195370\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:36:13","slug":"dekho-mitchell-starc-saamne-khada-hai-fans-give-rohit-sharma-bizarre-motivation-ahead-of-odi-series-watch-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195370\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dekho Mitchell Starc saamne khada hai!&#8217;: Fans give Rohit Sharma bizarre motivation ahead of ODI series &#8211; watch | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1280720-photos-2025-10-12t075247051.jpg\" alt=\"'Dekho Mitchell Starc saamne khada hai!': Fans give Rohit Sharma bizarre motivation ahead of ODI series - watch\" title=\"Rohit Sharma's preparations for the ODI series against Australia starting next week are in full swing (Screengrabs\/X, Getty Images)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Rohit Sharma&#8217;s preparations for the ODI series against Australia starting next week are in full swing (Screengrabs\/X, Getty Images) <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rohit-sharma\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rohit Sharma<\/a> spent nearly two hours at Mumbai\u2019s Shivaji Park sharpening his skills ahead of India\u2019s upcoming ODI series in Australia. The former India captain trained under the watchful eye of his longtime friend and ex-Mumbai teammate Abhishek Nayar, as fans gathered in large numbers to witness the rare public session.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We got desperate&#8217;: Rohit Sharma on what clicked at 2025 Champions Trophy<\/p>\n<p> The 38-year-old, who last represented India in the Champions Trophy final against New Zealand in February, looked in fine touch during the nets at the All Heart Cricket Academy.Known for his trademark timing, Rohit played a flurry of pull and cut shots against pace, followed by inside-out drives that drew cheers from the fans. He also dedicated a considerable part of his session to countering spin, practising sweep and slog-sweep strokes. At one point, as Rohit faced a delivery in the nets, smashing it for a pull shot, a fan\u2019s voice rose above the noise. \u201c2027 ka World Cup jeetna hai Rohit bhai, tumhare bina possible nahi hai! Australia me bhi aise hi maarna hai\u2026 dekho dekho, saamne Starc khada hai, (We have to win the 2027 World Cup, Rohit bhai. It won\u2019t be possible without you. You have to hit like this in Australia too. Look, (Mitchell) Starc is standing in front of you.)\u201d shouted one supporter, drawing laughter from the crowd.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rushiii_12\/status\/1977081410226995526\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Watch the hilarious video here<\/a> The ODI series against Australia begins on October 19 in Perth, marking Rohit\u2019s return to international cricket after stepping down as India\u2019s ODI captain recently. Both Rohit and Virat Kohli, who retired from Tests and ODIs, have been called up for the three-match series.<\/p>\n<p>Poll<\/p>\n<p>Do you believe Rohit Sharma can steer India to victory in the 2027 World Cup?<\/p>\n<p> The senior duo, along with newly appointed vice-captain Shreyas Iyer, will link up with the Test squad currently facing the West Indies before flying out to Australia on October 15.<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rohit Sharma&#8217;s preparations for the ODI series against Australia starting next week are in full swing (Screengrabs\/X, Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[85247,85248,1721,1619,18856,85249,85250,85251,82290,61780,85246,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-195370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-australia-odi-rohit","9":"tag-australia-odi-rohit-sharma","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-mitchell-starc","12":"tag-rohit-sharma","13":"tag-rohit-sharma-australia","14":"tag-rohit-sharma-australia-odi","15":"tag-rohit-sharma-mitchell-starc","16":"tag-rohit-sharma-news","17":"tag-rohit-sharma-odi","18":"tag-rohit-sharma-practice","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}