Mumbai Indians coach said a big thing for Rohit Sharma.
Mumbai Indians coach said a big thing for Rohit Sharma.
IPL 2023: In the Indian Premier League 2023 Qualifier 2, Gujarat Titans defeated Mumbai Indians and reached the IPL final. Now the team of Gujarat Titans, captained by Hardik Pandya, will play the title match of the 16th season against Chennai Super Kings on 28 May. After the defeat to Mumbai Indians, team coach Mark Boucher has given a big statement. He has said a big thing about Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma.
Coach Mark Boucher’s big statement
Mumbai Indians head coach Mark Boucher said after the defeat in the match against Gujarat Titans that Rohit Sharma is a great player. Rohit Sharma led the team. We batted well during the IPL, Rohit captained well. Mumbai Indians have played good cricket in season 2023, which will stand us in good stead in the future. This is the first time since 2017 that the Mumbai Indians team has lost the match in the playoffs. Mumbai Indians last lost a qualifier match in 2017 against Rising Pune Supergiants.
Shubman Gill’s big century
Gujarat Titans opener Shubman Gill scored the third century of IPL season 2023 and his IPL career while batting brilliantly against Mumbai Indians. Gill played a blistering inning of 129 runs in just 60 balls. During this, 10 more sixes and 7 fours came out of his bat. With his century, he has become the highest run-scorer in IPL 2023. Shubman Gill has scored 851 runs in his 16 matches at an average of 60.79 and a strike rate of 156.43.
The condition of the match was like this
Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and chose to bowl first. Electing to bat first, the team of Gujarat Titans gave a huge target of 234 runs to win against Mumbai Indians thanks to Shubman Gill’s blistering century innings of 129 runs. Apart from this, Sai Sudarshan scored 43 runs, Hardik Pandya scored an unbeaten 28 runs. Chasing the target, Mumbai team got all out for 171 runs in 18.2 overs. From Mumbai Indians, Suryakumar Yadav scored 61 runs in 38 balls and Tilak Verma scored 43 runs in 14 balls. Gujarat Titans fast bowler Mohit Sharma took 5 wickets for 10 runs in just 2.2 overs in the match.
