Rohit Sharma Revealed The Main Reason Behind MI’s Defeat Last Night: This time luck is not with Mumbai Indians. The lost another match yesterday against Rajasthan Royals by 3 wickets. The match proved itself to be heart-wrenching thriller.
Both the teams tried their best to win, however, Mumbai Indians failed miserably to win the match. Mumbai Indians, after opting to bat first, started the game with a worst possible way. Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav, were the only two players who played their best and stretched the score to 167 runs.
The skipper of Mumbai Indians, Rohit Sharma was sent back to pavilion in the first ball itself after he faced an unfortunate run-out. His run-out stunned everyone as everyone was expecting a great innings from his side.
In the second innings, the skipper of Rajasthan Royals, Ajinkya Rahane scored 14 runs in 17 balls. Sanju Samsons, who scored 52 runs and Ben Stokes, who scored 40 runs were the two heroes of yesterday’s match for Rajasthan Royals.
However, talking about bowling and fielding, Jofra Archer took all the limelight away as he took three wickets and was tagged as the Man of the match.
Here’s what the Man of the match, Jofra Archer said:
“It is good to be back on the park after missing the first few games. We just wanted to restrict them after it looked like they would get to 190. Stokesy had a chat with us at the half way stage and told us we needed to restrict them.
That’s exactly what we did and then chased it down (swag smile). It was a bit nervy coming to the end, when we needed 40 in 20, but with the talent we had in the line up we knew it would be easy. The heartbeat hasn’t come down as yet; still pumping from that win.”
Ajinkya rahane, the captain of Rajasthan Royals said:
I still can’t believe what happened. I just want to give credit to my bowlers for the way they came back after 14 overs because it looked like they’d get to 180-190. But in the end KG’s knock was unbelievable. In the time-out the plan was to take it deep.
We knew we had hitters like Jos, Ben, Klassen and Jofra who could hit the ball a long way. We knew that we were always just two big shots away. Rahul batted really well at the top of the order last year, and that is the combination we wanted to go in with.
It looks like we’ll still continue with that. We are happy to see Jofra back, his spell and the way Jaydev and Dhawal bowled in the middle overs was the key.
Jofra can bowl at 140+ and his pace and accuracy was amazing. He’s always thinking about wickets and when you do that your mindset is always positive which is the way to go about.
K.Gowtham, the man of the moments said:
On top of the world. I had a decent first class year. The captain asked me to believe and that’s what I did. It worked. You just need a good hit with 6 needed off 3 balls. That’s what I was thinking when I denied the single.
The skipper of Mumbai Indians, Rohit Sharma said:
Not easy, especially towards the end. Have to give credit to them; they played well. Not easy to score 10 an over given how the wicket was playing. I think (not finishing well with the bat) hurt us. We didn’t capitalize on the start.
Second or third time we have done that. I hope we can learn from the mistakes. Wasn’t easy (towards the end of the innings), because they were taking the pace off but we needed to be smarter.
It is not easy, which is probably the reason why I haven’t been critical about my bowling unit. 20 runs more would have made the difference
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