At the Champions Trophy of 2013, the captain M.S. Dhoni asked Rohit Sharma to open the innings for India. “He just came up to me and said ‘I want you to open the innings as I am confident that you will do well,'” Rohit recalled in an interview with the Press Trust of India in 2017.
“I believe the decision to open in ODIs changed my career and it was a decision taken by M.S. Dhoni,” he said. “He told me that I shouldn’t be scared of failures or get upset by criticism.”