On Wednesday, Mumbai Indians (MI) captain Rohit Sharma played the match-winning innings of 94 and helped his team to register a 46-run victory over Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2018 encounter at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. This was MI’s first victory in the 11th edition of the IPL 2018 after losing 3 consecutive games.
After losing first two wickets on the first two balls of the game, Sharma and Evin Lewis played brilliant innings and forged a 108-run partnership to help MI post a mammoth 213/6 against Virat Kohli-led RCB. Rohit scored as many as 10 boundaries and five sixes in his 52-ball innings, stayed till the end to score his highest IPL score this season.
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Before coming into the game, Rohit was witnessing a rough patch in his form. In the previous 3 encounters, Sharma had managed to score 15, 11 and 18 against Chennai Super Kings (CSK), Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Delhi Daredevils (DD) respectively.
Ahead of the match against RCB, MI mentor Sachin Tendulkar visited the team during their practice session and gave some tips to MI’s skipper on how to deal with pressure situations. Moreover, there was one special bowler in the nets to help the captain to prepare for the RCB challenge and he was none other than Sachin’s son Arjun Tendulkar.
Welcome to Wankhede! On strike is Rohit Sharma facing Arjun Tendulkar and Robin Singh in tandem… Sachin Tendulkar is around too, giving inputs to the young left-arm pacer… pic.twitter.com/k4vbSP06jM
— Devarchit (@Devarchit) April 16, 2018
Arjun is a left-arm pacer and one of the regular bowlers for MI team during their net sessions. During the net session, Arjun also got a few tips from MI’s bowling coach Lasith Malinga. Besides Arjun, Rohit faced bowlers like Mustafizur Rahman, Mitchell McClenaghan, and others.
In the game against RCB, Sharma smashed the visiting bowlers all around the park and made sure his team crossed the 200-run mark before getting out on the penultimate delivery of the innings. Currently, MI is at No 6 on the points table with one win under their belt.
