Defending champions Mumbai Indians have once again faced a defeat in this season after they lost to Punjab Kings by 9 wickets on Friday. However, captain Rohit Sharma has revealed the reason for their another loss in IPL 2021.

Put in to bat first, Mumbai could only manage 131 runs in their allotted 20 overs as Punjab Kings bowlers superbly restricted them. Apart from a well-made fifty from Rohit and quick cameos from Suryakumar Yadav and Kieron Pollard at the end, no other batsmen could really manage to contribute.

“We are not putting enough effort on the field and when the conditions are tough you need to understand how you need to bat and how you need to bowl.” Rohit Sharma said in the post-match. “It is not a bad wicket to bat on, you saw how Punjab Kings batted and won the game with 9 wickets in hand. It is just the application that is missing in our batting,” he said highlighting PBKS batsmen’s batting approach.”

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A 79-run stand between Rohit Sharma (63 off 52) and Suryakumar Yadav (33 off 27) helped them to steady the ship in the middle but they failed to pace up their innings at the end, collecting only 34 runs in the last five overs and lost four wickets too. “If you get 150-160 on this wicket then you are always in the game, that is something we failed to do in the last two games”, he again added.

Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma was also not happy with the way the Mumbai Indians batsmen have been playing this season so far. He said: “Something is missing in our batting line-up, we are not able to bat 20 overs in the fashion we want and something that we have to look at and see what we can do.”

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Mumbai Indians will now move to Delhi, where they will play their rest of the league games which will begin with the game against Rajasthan Royals on April 29 as well.