By India Today Sports Desk: Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma hit his second half-century of IPL 2023 of their must-win recreation in the direction of SunRisers Hyderabad at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
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Rohit carried out a measured knock in an vital match for MI, scoring 56 runs off 37 balls. The 35-year-old started off slowly and was watching alongside as Cameron Green ripped the SRH bowling assault to shreds en path to his 20-ball fifty.
Rohit was going at nearly a run-a-ball until the ninth over, when he smashed Vivrant Sharma for an unlimited six over sq. leg. The India skipper switched gears from there on, and hit categorical pacer Umran Malik for 3 back-to-back fours inside the very subsequent over.
He then hit Karthik Tyagi for a boundary inside the twelfth over to convey up his forty second IPL half-century. Rohit was lastly dismissed when Nitish Reddy took a mid-air blinder off a thick exterior edge inside the 14th over. Rohit scored 56 runs off 37 balls, hitting eight boundaries and a solitary six.
In fact, Rohit moreover crossed the 5000-run mark for MI, whereas moreover turning into merely the second Indian cricketer after Virat Kohli to cross 11,000 runs in T20 cricket.
Mumbai (Playing XI) – Rohit Sharma (C), Ishan Kishan (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Nehal Wadhera, Cameron Green, Tim David, Chris Jordan, Piyush Chawla, Jason Behrendorff, Kumar Kartikeya (In for Hrithik Shokeen), Akash Madhwal.
Hyderabad (Playing XI) – Mayank Agarwal (In for Rahul Tripathi), Vivrant Sharma (In for Abhishek Sharma), Aiden Markram (C), Heinrich Klaasen (WK), Harry Brook, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Glenn Phillips, Sanvir Singh (In for Abdul Samad), Mayank Dagar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik (In for Kartik Tyagi).
