Everything came a bit late in Rohit Sharma's cricketing career, despite the talent he always possessed: the refurbished Test career as an opener, the India captaincy, this kind of public adulation.
He knows it's his proverbial last lap, but has been working overtime in the last year especially to leave his imprint on Indian cricket history.
And with this T20WorldCup triumph, he joins Kapil Dev and MS Dhoni in the pantheon of successful leaders in the public imagination; throw in his bucketful of IPL titles and that compliment doesn't look out of place.
The T20 World Cup-winning captain is a chilled-out big brother, a sharp-witted straight-talker, a smart strategist, a caring mentor, with fans now warming up to his grounded legacy- building persona.
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