Rohit Sharma led Mumbai Indians (MI) have started their 14th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) campaign with a defeat to Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) where RCB sealed the deal on a last-ball thriller. However, Mumbai has a record of starting with a defeat as well.
However, against KKR, they put up a great show and successfully won the game by 10 runs as well. But ahead of the game, the presenter and the wife of Indian cricketer Stuart Binny, Mayanti Langer made her prediction on the game. She took to Twitter and wrote, “If Mumbai scores more than 200, I want Vada Pavs. Because one must honour the hitman.”
The tweet has gone viral and fans have started reacting to it as well whereas Some Rohit Sharma fans did not like the way she made the relation between Vada Pavs and Rohit Sharma as it has often been used as a meme as well.
Here is how Twitterati reacted:
https://twitter.com/Anubhav_MSDIAN_/status/1381938974541766659?s=20
https://twitter.com/Solskjaer69420/status/1381959848259059722?s=20
Make vada pav great again 🤭
— ηєнα (@dreamer__neha) April 13, 2021
Carrots plzz…😋 pic.twitter.com/19HYQsmecw
— Atish45🇮🇳 (@Aj451098) April 13, 2021
Guys chill there is nothing wrong in her tweets rohit likes vadapav let us take it positive hope she gets double vadapav
— Likith ˢᵃʳⁱᵖᵒᵈʰᵃᵃ ˢᵃⁿⁱᵛᵃᵃʳᵃᵐ (@45Likith) April 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/Shekhar_O7/status/1381950498228465667?s=20
Earlier in the game, Mumbai Indians put up 152 runs in their allotted 20 overs on the back of a quickfire fifty from Suryakumar Yadav. And, despite having a flying start at the beginning which also included a steady fifty from Nitish Rana, Kolkata Knight Riders failed to win the game. At one point, they needed 31 runs off 30 with seven wickets in hand but they couldn’t manage to take the team home which left many in shock and the team came under the scanner as well.
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However, after the match, Rohit Sharma was a happy captain, who said at the post-match presentation: “Was a great fightback, excellent fightback by each one of them. You don’t see a game like this often. Lots of confidence from this game and we move forward. KKR batted brilliantly in the powerplay. Rahul came and got us crucial wickets in the middle. Krunal bowling those overs at the end was vital as well. It was a complete team effort and credit to all the bowlers.”
“As batters you need to carry on. The trend in Chennai is you can’t hit from ball one. You have to plan before you go into bat. We were 15-20 runs short. Should have batted well at the fag end. We need to understand how we need to bat at the death but I don’t want to take anything away from the boys. SKY has carried his form well. He plays fearless and it’s a positive sign for us in the first few overs. We need a guy there to do that. We have done the finishing part well as a team, just that we need to understand the surfaces here and adapt,” Rohit Sharma concluded.
