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Rohit Sharma received a warm welcome on his arrival in Mumbai on Monday. The former India skipper returned from Australia, following the conclusion of the 3-match series, which the men in blue lost 2-1. However, Rohit had an impressive outing, marking his return to professional cricket after he retired from Tests earlier this year. On Monday, Rohit landed in Mumbai and was almost mobbed while leaving the airport premises. The fans took the opportunity to click selfies with the star Indian batter before he got into his car and left for his residence. Mumbaiचा राजा for a reason! ? Welcome back, @ImRo45, can’t wait to see you in action already! 🫡#AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/n0UzM0DH4t — Star Sports (@StarSportsIndia) October 27, 2025 Rohit, after scoring just 8 in the first ODI in Perth, bounced back with scores of 73 and 121 not out in the next two games. With 202 runs in three matches, Rohit finished the series as the highest run-scorer, also bagging the Player of the Series award. After scoring his 33rd ODI hundred in Sydney on Saturday, Rohit credited his stupendous knock to the quality of preparation he puts himself through ahead of the series and considers this a blueprint for the twilight of his career. “Sometimes you can think so many things, but it doesn’t come off, but today was the day where I thought okay, this is what I have to do, and it just perfectly fit into my plan,” Rohit said in a video shared by the BCCI on Sunday. “Obviously, when you play in Australia, you’ve got to plan and play, so all the planning and all the understanding that I had from the previous experience, I used it today,” Rohit added. “Since the time I started playing, I’ve never had four to five months to prepare for a series so I wanted to utilize it, I wanted to do things in my own, on my own terms and that actually worked out pretty well for me in terms of understanding what I need to do for the rest of my career, it was important to utilise that time, and I prepared pretty well at home,” he explained. “I give a lot of credit to how I prepped before coming here giving myself a lot of time in the first place, which was very important because sometimes you need to understand that there’s so much to do in life besides what you do professionally, but I got a lot of time in my hand so I utilised that like I said I could do things on my terms, at my own time, which actually really helped me,” Rohit concluded.
