The fifth match of 2023 was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians. In the match held at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, RCB recorded a resounding victory over Mumbai. Rohit Sharma’s team scored 171 runs while batting first. At the same time, Bangalore completed the 172-run target for the win at the loss of 2 wickets. During this match, an embarrassing record was recorded in the name of Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma. He is the first IPL captain whose hit rate was the worst.
Rohit Sharma, who arrived to open the innings, did not look comfortable. He had to fight a lot against the RCB bowlers. Meanwhile he is out after scoring 1 run on 10 balls. During this, the strike rate of him was 10. This is the worst hit rate of any team captain in IPL after playing 10 balls. Not just this, Rohit Sharma also had a similar performance in two matches in the year 2022. Then his hit rate was 15.38 in the match against Delhi Capitals and his hit rate was 25 in the match against Kolkata Knight Riders.
In IPL 2022 too, Mumbai Indians started with a loss. Delhi Capitals defeated him by 4 wickets in the match played at Brabourne last year. At the same time, in IPL 2023 as well, Mumbai started with a loss. The performance of Rohit Sharma’s team was the worst of last season. In the points table in IPL 2022, Mumbai Indians were in the last i.e. 10th number. Last year, Rohit’s team was able to win only 4 out of 14 matches. But in IPL Season 16, Mumbai Indians would like to forget last year’s performance. This time there are a lot of smoked players in the team.
