'Virat Kohli made it a big news' - When Rohit Sharma forgot his wedding ring in a hotel room

India’s veteran opening batsman Rohit Sharma is a renowned name in the cricket fraternity. The right-hander is known for giving nightmares to the opposition bowlers with his attractive strokeplay and aggressive outlook towards the game. However, time and again, Rohit has found himself becoming a butt of a joke among his Indian teammates. 

Not many are aware but Rohit has a bad habit of forgetting things. A few years back, Indian skipper Virat Kohli had revealed that Rohit manages to forget valuable and important things like a passport, watch, mobile phone tablet, and other things in a hotel room or team bus while traveling. 

Not only this there was a time when the limited-overs vice-captain forgot to wear his wedding ring. Sharma is happily married to Ritika Sajdeh since 2015 and the couple is parents to a lovely daughter, Samaira. The incident of the opening batsman forgetting his wedding ring was narrated by Rohit himself during an appearance on Gaurav Kapur’s show Breakfast With Champions episode, in 2017. 

Recalling the incident, the 34-year-old revealed that he was newly married and was running late to catch his flight. As he didn’t have the habit of wearing his wedding ring, he took it off while sleeping and wore it in the morning. However, in the haste of reaching the team bus on time, Rohit forgot his ring in the hotel room. 

I was in a rush that day: Rohit Sharma

“Naya naya married tha yar. I was newly married. Aadat nai thi pehenne ki (I didn’t have a habit of wearing it at all times). Naya naya shaadi hua tha, toh main nikaal ke sota tha. I’ve a very bad habit of getting up late and then rushing towards the airport. I always tell my teammates to give me a call or knock on my door (in the team hotel) before we leave for training or the airport. Uss din aisa nai hua. Main late hogaya aur nikal gaya. (That day, I got very late and left in a hurry),” Rohit Sharma recalled.

Narrating further, the right-hander added that it was after seeing the ring on Umesh Yadav’s finger, he realized that he forgot his in the hotel room. It was then he asked for help from Harbhajan Singh to retrieve the ring safely but the whole team got to know about the episode and Virat made big news about it. 

“Toh Umesh Yadav mere paas se guzre aur unke haath mein maine wedding ring dekha. Toh main bola ‘ohho, s**t yar ring‘. Maine Bhajju paa ko side mein liya aur bola ‘Bhajju paa, aapke pehchaan wala banda tha hotel mein usko bolo shayad ring mil jaaye‘….Dheere dheere sabko pata chal gaya. Phir Virat Kohli ne bahut bada news bana diya,”