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Rohit Sharma has managed just 56 runs from five innings so far for Mumbai Indians in the ongoing IPL.
Rohit Sharma hasn’t been in the best for form this season. (PTI Photo)
Mumbai Indians’ poor start to IPL 2025 has coincided with the below par show with the bat from former captain and opener Rohit Sharma. The veteran batter has managed just 56 runs from five innings at a strike-rate of 136.58 and a best of 18.
MI have lost four of their six matches of the competition so far and are currently seventh on the IPL points table. Former India women captain Anjum Chopra reckons that Rohit’s form is hurting MI at the top of the order.
“You can be out of form. It’s not a crime to be out of form. The only idea is that it’s not helping, it’s not setting the start that Mumbai Indians were looking for or are looking for right at the top,” Anjum told PTI Videos on Tuesday.
She suggested the five-time IPL champions to try pushing Rohit down the order.
“So, I mean, they have options, they can always look at pushing Rohit Sharma down the order or not utilising all those options are always there. But it’s not that Rohit Sharma is out of form, it’s just that sometimes you don’t start the tournament on that good a note or that high a note and it can affect you as a batter or as a player as well,” she said.
“So, it’s part and parcel. It’s like we are watching a tournament as and when it’s an IPL or a World Cup. But tell me in a World Cup, would you want your best batter to be in form in a World Cup or not? And a lot of energy goes into delivering that kind of performance, ” she added.
Rohit played a key role in India’s triumph at the Champions Trophy but hasn’t been able to replicate his form in IPL. “Some people recover from that and step into the next tournament quicker than most or others. It’s not that others can’t get into it. He hasn’t got that kind of a start but then we know what kind of a player he is or what kind of a match winner is,” said Anjum.
Rohit is the third-highest run-getter in IPL history with 6684 runs from 262 matches at an average of 35.25 and a strike-rate of 131.18. He has two centuries and 43 fifties to his name.
