'This is Going to be Mad': Rohit Sharma on 2007 and 2024 WC Winning Parades

Rohit Sharma turned emotional during the victory parade of the 2024 T20 World Cup-winning Indian men’s cricket team in Mumbai on Thursday.

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Rohit Sharma and Team India landed in the national capital after a 16-hour chartered flight, five days since winning the trophy, thanks to a category 4 hurricane in Barbados.

After a breakfast at Prime Minister’s residence, the Indian national cricket team took part in a parade on the streets of Mumbai.

The players rode atop an open deck special bus brought from Gujarat for the victory rally, sporting the teams colours, some photos of the players and the trophy printed and proclamations of ‘Champions 2024’, as the wild crowds on both sides of the picturesque Marine Drive roared an incessant thunderous welcome to their icons.

Skipper Rohit was seen punching in the skies often, hugging his co-players, embracing Coach Rahul Dravid, some of the other players, though a tad weary, waved the Indian Tricolour, smiled, waved and expressed their own joy at bagging the World Cup. Some administrators – like Jay Shah, Rajeev Shukla and Staurt Binny – were also on the bus.

Inside the Wankhede Stadium, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) felicitated the Indian team.

While Rohit had words of praise for Surya and Hardik, Virat Kohli, who like Rohit has announced his retirement from T20I cricket, expressed some special words for Jasprit Bumrah for how the pacer extricated the Indian team from difficult situations on several occasions during the World Cup.

Bumrah on his part said that having his toddler son along with him at the Kensington Oval made it special for him, laughing off suggestions that he may have to encounter a petition signed by a billion people urging him not to quit the game.

While there were numerous moments for the fans to score in their memory for eternity, three would find a place in everyone’s favourite moments of the evening.

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Top-most of those cherished moments will be when Rohit Sharma walked hand-in-hand with Virat Kohli to the crowd near the stands as if saying thanks on their behalf as they retire from the game’s shortest format.

(With inputs from Agencies)