India’s swashbuckling opener Rohit Sharma led his side to a convincing win over Kolkata KnightRiders (KKR). While winning games is quite easy for him, he has decided to use the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 to share some strong messages on environmental issues to raise awareness with the world.
During the IPL 2021 campaign opener against Royal Challengers Bangalore, Rohit Sharma was spotted wearing spikes with ‘Save the Rhinos’ art as well. The Mumbai captain has been supporting the noble cause of conserving the Great One-Horned Rhinoceros for a long time too. And, during the second game too, he wore a special shoe that had the endangered species printed on them where he raised awareness for a PLASTIC FREE OCEAN.
Rohit Sharmalater took to Twitter and shared the message behind the images printed on his shoes, writing: “The other cause that’s extremely close to my heart. This one hits hard! This is a hundred percent in our control to reverse. I take my cause with me while I go out and do what I love! I walk out with my cause but it won’t end there, I need you guys to walk with me. Let’s get our oceans healthy again. 🌊🐠🐋🦈🐬🐳.”
I walk out with my cause but it won’t end there, I need you guys to walk with me. Let’s get our oceans healthy again. 🌊🐠🐋🦈🐬🐳🦭 (2/2)
— Rohit Sharma (@ImRo45) April 14, 2021
Earlier in the game, Mumbai Indians put up 152 runs in their allotted 20 overs on the back of a quickfire fifty from Suryakumar Yadav. And, despite having a flying start at the beginning which also included a steady fifty from Nitish Rana, Kolkata Knight Riders failed to win the game. At one point, they needed 31 runs off 30 with seven wickets in hand but they couldn’t manage to take the team home which left many in shock and the team came under the scanner as well.
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However, after the match, Rohit Sharma was a happy captain, who said at the post-match presentation: “Was a great fightback, excellent fightback by each one of them. You don’t see a game like this often. Lots of confidence from this game and we move forward. KKR batted brilliantly in the powerplay. Rahul came and got us crucial wickets in the middle. Krunal bowling those overs at the end was vital as well. It was a complete team effort and credit to all the bowlers.”
“As batters you need to carry on. The trend in Chennai is you can’t hit from ball one. You have to plan before you go into bat. We were 15-20 runs short. Should have batted well at the fag end. We need to understand how we need to bat at the death but I don’t want to take anything away from the boys. SKY has carried his form well. He plays fearless and it’s a positive sign for us in the first few overs. We need a guy there to do that. We have done the finishing part well as a team, just that we need to understand the surfaces here and adapt,” Rohit Sharma concluded.
