Mohammed Shami stood next to Rohit Sharma. Shami is not playing in IPL this time due to injury. But the game he is watching is evident in his discussion of Rohit after the Mumbai-Chennai match. Rohit had to lose despite making a hundred against Chennai. Shami blames Hardik Pandas for Mumbai’s loss.Rohit played an unbeaten innings of 105 runs off 63 balls against Chennai.
But even after that he could not chase 207 runs. Had to lose by 20 runs. In a video on X (ex-Twitter) handle after the match, Shami said, “Rohit bhai batted very well. He fought alone against Chennai. But he didn’t get anyone to help him. If someone else had batted a bit better, Mumbai could have won the match. Rohit bhai.” He played hundreds and how many more will you?”
Batting first against Mumbai, Chennai lost 4 wickets and scored 206 runs in 20 overs. Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad scored 69 and Shivam Dubey scored 66 runs. Mahendra Singh Dhoni played in a stormy innings towards the end. He hit Hardik with three consecutive sixes. Dhoni took Chennai’s 200 runs by playing an innings of 20 runs from 4 balls.