Mumbai Indians' captain Rohit Sharma has shared his disappointment with their performances as they faced their sixth consecutive defeat this season in IPL 2022.
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Mumbai Indians‘ captain Rohit Sharma has shared his disappointment with their performances as they faced their sixth consecutive defeat this season in IPL 2022. Notably, they lost to Lucknow Super Giants by 18 runs at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Saturday (April 16). However, it was another dismal show from Mumbai Indians as LSG beat them and they are almost out of the playoffs race as well.
And, now, the Mumbai Indians captain took “full responsibility” for his side’s poor performance in this season so far as well. “If I know what’s going wrong, I’d correct it but it’s not coming off. I’m trying to prepare myself in the way I prepare for every game, that is no different. It’s not coming off,” Rohit Sharma said after Mumbai Indians lost to Lucknow Super Giants.
“I take the full responsibility of not putting the team in the situation of what they expect from me. I back myself to go out there and enjoy the game and doing what I have been doing all these years. “It’s important to keep looking forward. It’s not the end of the world, we have come back before and we will try and come back again,” the skipper tried to put up a brave face but the disappointment was all too palpable,” he further added.
However, Rohit Sharma has come under the scanner this season for not using Jasprit Bumrah well as he has not started the first over with him in any of the matches so far. He defended his team’s strategy to keep Bumrah’s over for the back end and he also admitted that Bumrah did not receive support from the other end as well.
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“We always try and keep Bumrah for the back end and it didn’t seem to work out. He bowled pretty well but the others just need to pull up their socks a little bit. Every game we play is an opportunity, we try and think what our best playing XI which is best suited for the particular conditions and particular team,” he again shared.
While talking about the team combination, Rohit Sharma said that they chose the playing XI on the basis of the opposition they are facing as well. However, he also applauded KL Rahul, for a stunning century he has scored.
“We lost six games now, we are trying to understand what our right combination is, but it all depends on the opposition that we play. When you lose games it is very easy to point out that changes are being made but we try and go with our best XI. I think KL batted brilliantly, that is something missing from our team, wanted someone in our top four to bat as long as possible, which is not happening. Don’t want to look too much into it. We haven’t won a game yet but we need to keep our heads high,” Rohit Sharma concluded.
