Aakash Chopra on MI “Rohit Sharma started like a Shatabdi” in the Indian Premier League: IPL 2021

Aakash Chopra on MI “Rohit Sharma started like a Shatabdi” in the Indian Premier League. Chopra has highlighted that the Mumbai Indians came up with an insipid batting performance. Against the Kolkata Knight Riders in the second phase of IPL 2021. He pointed out that their captain Sharma slowed down after a shining start. The Mumbai Indians got off to a lively start. They scored 56 runs in the powerplay without losing a wicket. But they lost momentum and finished with a below-par score of 155/6 in yesterday’s IPL 2021.

While Mumbai Indians’ batting performance in a video shared on his YouTube channel. Aakash Chopra pointed out that Rohit Sharma took his foot off the accelerator pedal. After having given the team a shining start alongside Quinton de Kock.

Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock

“Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock started in a very aggressive fashion. But Sunil Narine comes in the 10th over and dismisses Rohit. Rohit Sharma started like a Shatabdi but gradually became a goods train. He scored 33 runs in 30 balls, he doesn’t play that slowly,” Aakash Chopra said.

Chopra mourns the lack of runs from Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan’s willows. Which led to the Mumbai Indians setting an underwhelming target for Kolkata Knight Riders.

“Quinton de Kock also became slow all of a sudden. Suryakumar Yadav’s bat is not firing and the same is the case with Ishan Kishan. Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy – they just choked the opposition. Then Kieron Pollard tried his best, Krunal was also batting okay, but you left runs on the pitch as 175-180 should have been scored,” Chopra said.

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The MI scored just 75 runs in the last ten overs. They had nine wickets in hand going into the second innings in IPL 2021.

“Don’t be surprised if the Mumbai Indians don’t even qualify,” Aakash Chopra.

Chopra believes Mumbai not qualifying for the playoffs. It’s inside the domain of possibility.

“Don’t be surprised if the Mumbai Indians don’t even qualify, that is also possible. The two-time defending champions, who are looking for a hat-trick, might not qualify. It has been a long time since we have seen this type of annihilation of Mumbai,” Chopra said.

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