Former India player Aakash Chopra has said that Rohit Sharma’s return to run-scoring ways is welcome news for the Mumbai Indians (MI) for the rest of the IPL 2025. He shared that Rohit had faced a poor run with the bat in his first six innings in the ongoing edition of the IPL.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra’, he said, “Now there is a bigger smile on the face because there were questions, and they were all serious. I will be very, very honest. If Rohit Sharma doesn’t score runs and takes so many innings to score more than 20 runs, you feel it’s not right. He was improving in each subsequent inning, but 26 was the highest. It was absolutely unacceptable.”
“If we look at it from his point of view, it was extremely ordinary. Even if we look at it from the point of view of any team’s opener, it was unacceptable. So, it was necessary for him to score runs in this match. He started well and played a few of his trademark shots. The thing I liked was that he didn’t throw away his wicket. He stood till the end and kept hitting. He won the match by nine wickets, and he had a star against his name, which means the guy is a superstar. That was the important bit. He hit (Matheesha) Pathirana for sixes. Rohit coming in form is a huge story,” Chopra stated.
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However, Aakash Chopra also praised Suryakumar Yadav (68* off 30) for playing unbelievable sweeps in the Mumbai Indians’ IPL 2025 win against the CSK.
“The second story is Suryakumar Yadav, the batting range he has, actually just one shot, the sweep. Hitting a sweep against a spinner over long leg is almost unthinkable. Hitting a six over square leg is also a special shot, but tell me the name of guys who hit like that against spin, and the ball goes over long leg for a six,” he said.
“You can’t find a single person except Suryakumar Yadav. He has got this wonderful ability. He demolished spin. Jaddu’s (Ravindra Jadeja) ball was turning a little, he picked up a wicket as well, but he (Suryakumar) put him in line. Whether it was Ravichandran Ashwin or Noor Ahmad, when he gets going, there is no stopping Surya bhau,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
