Veteran commentator Aakash Chopra feels that the Mumbai Indians (MI) might review their association with Rohit Sharma if their captain continues to fail with the bat as he has done in the last two seasons of the Indian Premier League (IPL). MI, who had a poor last season, bounced back to finish third in IPL 2023 as well. However, Rohit faced a second successive poor season with the bat and looked far from his best form throughout the tournament.

While talking about Mumbai’s IPL 2023 campaign in a video shared on his YouTube channel, Aakash Chopra said: “Rohit didn’t really come to the party. Although he captains very well, the franchise might think that it’s not turning out to be a fruitful partnership if he does not do well consistently as he has an extremely important position in the batting order. This has become a sort of pattern and it is not a good thing. He started very slowly, then was dismissed for zero twice in a row, and it seemed it would turn out very bad. Then he did score a few runs for sure but we saw quite a few times that he got out while trying to play a big shot.”

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Rohit Sharma scored 332 runs at an average of 20.75 in his 16 innings in IPL 2023. He scored only two fifties, with 65 being his best as well. Aakash Chopra also added that Rohit Sharma’s usual sublime strokeplay was not seen in IPL 2023 also. He also added that his form is a massive concern for the team as well. He scored 268 runs at an average of 19.14 in IPL 2022 as well.

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“The quality that he possesses, when your close your eyes and think about Rohit Sharma – short ball and he hits a pull into the stands, he will play an extremely beautiful drive or hit a six against spin while standing at his position – these pictures come to your mind, but we saw Rohit Sharma going through extremely poor form this year. The last year was also similar. The season before that was okay but the last two seasons have been very pedestrian, they have been extremely middling seasons. If we see from Rohit Sharma’s standards, they have been extremely ordinary. I feel this was a huge area of concern for this team,” Aakash Chopra concluded.