Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has opined on Rohit Sharma’s poor show with the bat and he said that this is one of the problematic areas for the Mumbai Indians (MI) in IPL 2022. Rohit, who got out for 18 in Thursday’s (May 12) match against the Chennai Super Kings (CSK), has failed to score a fifty in the tournament so far. The Mumbai Indians captain has scored only 218 runs at a dismal average of 18.16 in the 12 matches as well.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Aakash Chopra explained: “There are one-and-a-half to two dozen problems if you ask me. Rohit hasn’t scored runs. He hasn’t scored even one half-century. We are discussing so much that Virat Kohli’s year hasn’t been good but he has scored one half-century, Rohit Sharma has not even scored that. It seemed at times that the vintage Rohit is back, but not to be. Ishan Kishan – only glimpses. One 80, then a fifty, one 40, then one fifty in between and that’s it. So, this team didn’t play that good cricket at all, they have been troubled.”
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On the other hand, Ishan Kishan has scored 327 runs at a below-par average of 29.72 in IPL 2022 so far. He has scored three half-centuries but has not been at his best, having a strike rate of just 117.20. While speaking about the Mumbai Indians’ chase against CSK, Aakash Chopra said that Kishan and Rohit were dismissed very cheaply again.
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“They were chasing 97 runs and in the first over itself Mukesh Choudhary dismissed Ishan Kishan for the second time in this season. Rohit Sharma was playing well, hit three-four fours and Simarjeet dismisses him as well. Daniel Sams – surprise surprise, comes at No. 3 for the first time in his T20 career. Why did he come, I don’t know? Mukesh Choudhary dismisses him and then Tristan Stubbs as well. But the total was small, the runs were scored in the end. Tilak Varma – he has been that guy who has done well consistently. He is the biggest positive in this team’s bad campaign. He has maintained that standard,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
