The amazing opening batter Abhishek Sharma has said that his only goal as a cricket player is to win prizes, not to set personal goals. The 26-year-old cricketer said these things on October 5, one day before India’s T20I series against the West Indies.
Abhishek Sharma said that the way he thought about making a difference and helping his team succeed formed during Punjab’s 2024 domestic T20 season, which finished with a title win. Punjab beat Baroda by 20 runs in the final to win the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy for 2023–24. It was their first title. Sharma won the award for Player of the Series in that match.
Since then, he has been on India’s teams that won the Asia Cup in 2025 and the T20 World Cup in 2026, giving him two more major international titles. He was also a big part of the Men in Blue’s gold medal win at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026. He played an important role and scored an important fifty (61 off 28 balls) against arch-rivals Pakistan in the final match.
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Abhishek Sharma has made it clear that his team’s success is more important to him than his own stats. He thinks that a player can’t directly affect milestones, but that a batter can change the level and impact of each inning with their actions. He says that this way of thinking has guided every game he has played since he was in Punjab.
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The next game Abhishek is likely to play in is India’s five-match T20I series at home against the West Indies. Tuesday is the first day of the series. It will be played at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow.
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