Former India opener turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has shared that two of their batters getting run out cost the Mumbai Indians’ (MI) run-chase against Punjab Kings (PBKS). Both Tilak Varma and Kieron Pollard got out in a similar fashion.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Aakash Chopra said, “Kieron Pollard has not come this year. He batted slightly okay in one match against KKR, here he was not batting well. He is struggling, run out. You might say it was Surya’s fault but you cannot walk the first run. Both he and Tilak Varma got run out, how will you win if two of your six batters get run out?”
The veteran was also critical of the Mumbai Indians’ batting order. Chopra explained: “You send Dewald Brevis and along with him is Tilak Varma. I have got a question, that too when things have gone well, will you not send your team’s best batter to bat? Sending Suryakumar Yadav at No. 5, it is a faux pas in my opinion. He got 30 balls in the end. If you had given him 45 balls, the match wouldn’t have reached here.”
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Dewald Brevis (49 off 25) and Tilak Varma (36 off 20) added an 84-run partnership for the third wicket after the Mumbai Indians were reduced to a score of 32/2 very quickly. However, Mumbai faced their fifth straight loss in IPL 2022.
Speaking about the start of the MI innings, Aakash Chopra stated: “When the second innings started, Rohit Sharma came and batted amazingly well. He hits sixes and then he falls prey to Rabada, he was dismissed only once before by Rabada. Here he tried to play a pull and the ball went straight up in the air.”
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“Ishan Kishan got out in the next over. Ishan Kishan’s graph has gone down drastically after his first two innings. Rohit Sharma’s graph has not gone up at all. He did score 40-odd in the first match but I don’t remember the last time he scored a fifty for Mumbai. There were a lot of expectations here but the runs were not scored,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
