India celebrates wildly and honors its world cup legends...

Rohit Sharma, fielding at cover in the icc t20 world cup final, raised his arms in delight as the last ball was bowled and then fell to the ground, face first. He gave the earth a joyful slap before starting to cry. In the dressing room, rahul dravid rose from his seat, gave a happy scream, and punched the air with glee. A bit later, the tears started to fall. virat kohli, for once, refrained from using histrionics elsewhere. He raised his arms, shut his eyes, and raised his gaze to the Kensington Oval in the sky.

Meanwhile, back in India, thousands of revellers erupted into the streets early on sunday morning, donning the national blue and having their faces painted in the tricolors. Nearly every town and city in the nation stayed up late, from Jammu to Chennai, from hyderabad to Kolkata, a collective sigh of relief that reflected the euphoria in barbados thousands of kilometers away.

After winning the trophy, players like virat kohli declared he was done with Twenty20 international cricket before the intense emotion of the match could even leave his system. Rohit followed suit a short while later during the news conference after the game. Dravid had previously stated that his time with the team would end following the World Cup. For all three of them, it was the ideal way out.

Few athletes get to craft their own exit strategy, precisely schedule their withdrawal from a game, or arrange their appearance, as Ian Bishop stated on X. Here, rahul dravid, Rohit Sharma, and virat kohli have executed it flawlessly.

The relationship and mutual trust among the three individuals made them genuinely unique. Soon after Kohli's disorganized exit as captain in 2021, Dravid was appointed coach. After taking over, Rohit calmed any turbulence and focused only on leading the team ahead in the most efficient way possible. Dravid and Rohit didn't want it to turn into an ego fight, even though it might have happened very easily.

We have seen that kohli cooperated throughout the past three years. He remained the ideal team player, accepting their ideas and expressing his own. Two years have passed since Rohit and Kohli's world cup victory, during which time they hardly played in the format. However, Dravid had faith in their expertise, and they delivered on it.

There was never a teacher-student dynamic here. They call him rahul bhai. A big brother who would reach across and provide them the information they required. rahul would provide his opinion, but the captain would make the final decision. The stronger link was Rohit's response to these stimuli.