5 instances Indian Premier League (IPL) champion Rohit Sharma is struggling to search out his type within the sixteenth version of the cash-rich league. He has repeatedly failed to attain huge runs within the ongoing event. The Mumbai Indians (MI) skipper managed to attain simply 184 runs in his final ten video games with a below-par common of simply 18. Rohit even went on to realize an embarrassing feat in his final match in opposition to Chennai Tremendous Kings (CSK) on Saturday (Could 6), the place he departed with out opening his account and have become the batter with essentially the most no. of geese in IPL historical past, i.e. 16.

The Mumbai batter fell sufferer to MS Dhoni’s tactical brilliance within the conflict as he tried a failed lap shot and ended up hitting it straight into the palms of Ravindra Jadeja, who was strategically positioned by Dhoni at backward level. Commentator and former India cricketer Okay Srikkanth was very sad with the weird manner of Rohit’s dismissal and expressed his dissatisfaction by slamming the latter on-air.

Srikkanth launched a scathing assault on the 36-year-old MI batter on dwell TV and mentioned: “Rohit Sharma ought to change his title to ‘NO HIT SHARMA’, I can’t even play him in XI if I used to be Captain of MI.”

Notably, this was Rohit’s second consecutive duck within the season.

So far as the results of the match is anxious, Mumbai confronted yet one more setback and misplaced to Chennai by six wickets. Though Nehal Wadhera scored an excellent 64 off 51 deliveries within the recreation, he sadly ended up on the shedding aspect. In the meantime, Piyush Chawla‘s two wickets for his staff additionally went in useless.

Talking of MI’s general efficiency within the ongoing league, this was the Mumbai-based staff’s fifth loss in ten matches, and so they have now slipped to the sixth place of the IPL 2023 factors desk. Any additional defeat from right here will solely slim the probabilities of Mumbai reaching the IPL 2023 playoffs.