MI vs PBKS: Rohit Sharma gutted after Mumbai Indians fail to ‘maintain their nerves’ vs Punjab

Rohit Sharma was a dejected captain after Mumbai Indians misplaced their fifth successive match of IPL 2022. Chasing 199, MI had been cruising alongside however fell agonisingly quick as Punjab Kings received a thriller by 12 runs after Odean Smith redeemed himself to select 3 wickets within the last over.

After the heartbreaking defeat at Pune’s MCA Stadium, Mumbai Indians grew to become the primary workforce to lose the primary 5 matches of an IPL season twice.

Rohit Sharma was gutted with the 2 run-outs which derailed the MI chase. At the tip of the eleventh over, the 5-time champions had reached 116 for 3 due to a 25-ball 49 from Dewald Brevis. Tilak Varma had additionally carried out his bit to maintain MI within the hunt with a 20-ball 36 whereas Suryakumar Yadav smashed a fast 43 to maintain PBKS on their toes. However, Suryakumar was concerned in mix-ups with Tilak Varma and Kieron Pollard earlier than shedding his personal wicket within the nineteenth over.

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Rohit stated he couldn’t decide any faults in a match which he thought they need to have received however regretted the truth that his workforce couldn’t maintain their nerves after coming so shut.

“There’s hardly anything to find out from that game. I thought we played the game pretty well, came pretty close towards the back end of our batting innings,” Rohit advised the host broadcasters on the post-match presentation.

“It’s just that a couple of crucial runouts there was not needed, but that happens. At one stage we were cruising through and keeping up with the run rate as well, but in the end we couldn’t hold our nerves. Credit to Kings with the way they bowled at the back end.”‘

‘NOTHING WORKING’

Mumbai Indians sprang a shock by sending Tilak Varma forward of the extra skilled Suryakumar Yadav at a vital juncture of the chase however Rohit Sharma defended the transfer.

“If you’re not winning games, you’ve got to try to find a way you can succeed as a team as a batting group. So we’re trying to find different ideas, different thought processes. It doesn’t seem to be working at the moment but I don’t want to take anything away from the guys. We fought pretty well.

“We batted brilliantly, however they held their nerves fairly good, the Kings, and so they received the sport. We’ve been not taking part in good cricket for some time and that is why we have been on the shedding facet, easy as that. The Kings batted fairly properly up entrance and put stress on our bowlers, acquired a 90-100 run partnership to start with.

But I believed 190-plus was chaseable on that pitch as a result of that pitch was actually good to bat on as you noticed after we had been batting as properly. We simply have to return and see what we do as a workforce.”

Mumbai Indians subsequent tackle Lucknow Super Giants on the Wankhede Stadium on Saturday.

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