Rohit’s bat calm in IPL for years
Rohit Sharma is playing in IPL since 2008. From 2008 to 2016 season, Rohit had scored more than 350 runs every time. But since then Rohit’s bat is calm. In the last 6 seasons, he was able to score more than 350 runs only twice. In two seasons, he could not even score 300 runs. Last year, his bat yielded 268 runs at an average of 19 and a strike rate of 120. There was not even a single fifty in this. It was the first time in IPL history when Rohit could not score a half-century in the entire season.
Completely failed against RCB
Even in the first match of IPL 2023, Rohit’s bat remained completely calm. Facing 10 balls, he got out after scoring just one run. Today the match is at Wankhede Stadium. Since 2011, Rohit has been playing for the Mumbai franchise. From 2011 to 2013, he scored 717 runs in 23 innings at this ground at an average of 44 and a strike rate of 138. Between 2014 and 2017, scored 689 runs in 25 innings at an average of 31. The situation is worse since 2018. In 17 innings, the Indian captain has scored 434 runs with the bat at an average of 25 and a strike rate of 122.
Is it only because of the captaincy in the team?
If any player had been failing like this continuously, he would have been out of the team by now. Getting a place in the playing XI was a distant thing. But Rohit has been a hit under the captaincy. Even after his failure with the bat, Mumbai won the title in 2017, 2019 and 2020. But now even the team is not winning. In such a situation, apart from the pressure of scoring runs on Rohit, there is also a lot of pressure to win the team.
Source: navbharattimes.indiatimes.com
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