Mumbai Indian skipper and veteran batter Rohit Sharma has not been in an expected run of form with the bat in the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League 2023. He has scored only 179 runs in the six innings of the six matches played so far for his team with a below-par average of 29.83 including only a half-century with the wood.
Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma recently attracted the headlines of social media recently as he was spotted playing football ahead of the next match of the Mumbai Indians in the tournament.
Subsequently, a section of Indian cricket fans took it as an opportunity to troll the 35-year-old on the micro-blogging site as soon as this picture of him playing football went viral on social media.
Here’s how fans reacted:
Football mat khel injured ho jayega
— Citomo (@cover_drive_08) April 24, 2023
Two footballs playing with each other
— Adityaraj Mohite (@aditya_raj1920) April 24, 2023
Cricket mein to kuchh ukhad nahi paa raha hoon. Let's try football
— RR Fan (@RRFan78826120) April 24, 2023
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Football playing with Rohit
— Praneeth (@fantasy_d11) April 24, 2023
Cricket practice karlo Rohit Bhai Hardik Landya ki team ko pelna hai ..
— Unknown_♡ (@NEUTRALICTFAN) April 24, 2023
Jamkar kutai karna
All the best..
Fifty se kam to nhi chalega aur century aa gayi to sone pe suhaga
Same energy pic.twitter.com/CVbNoQN9Wh
— Harsh Tegta (@tegtaharsh97) April 24, 2023
he should be the ball himself
— NighTHawK (@nighthawk2004) April 24, 2023
Wow! Yeh to latest news hai
— Arman Gill (@armansingh_gill) April 24, 2023
Injury loading➡️Soon💔
— सरदार खान नाम है हमारा! (@rishavshukla22) April 24, 2023
Retirement loading 🤣🤣🤣
— Manak Suthar 🇮🇳🚩 (@Suthar18Suthar) April 24, 2023
Please pick rohit as a Indian football team captain @IndianFootball
— Ram NTR (@MJAloooo) April 24, 2023
Hamstrings pull ho jayegi bc world cup se bahar ho jayega…limits me raho bhai
— Gotham Gembirr (@71stCenturyFox) April 24, 2023
Messi Ronaldo ka dukan bandh karwaane kaa soch raha hain. @ImRo45
— Bidyut Das (@DasBidyut23) April 24, 2023
Now, Rohit Sharma will be in action with Mumbai Indians in their next and seventh match in the tournament against Gujarat Titans. The five-time champions will take on the defending champions at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad tomorrow Tuesday, the 25th of April from 7.30 PM.
Notably, Mumbai Indians have a mixed performance to their name in the six matches of the tournament they played so far. The multi-time title holders have won three matches and lost the same number of matches in the current season of the tournament. Whereas, on the other hand, the hosts of tomorrow’s match Gujarat Titans are placed in the top four teams of the points table with four wins in the six matches so far.
Here's a look at the squad of Mumbai Indians for the Indian Premier League 2023:
Rohit Sharma, Sandeep Warrier, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Dewald Brevis, Tilak Varma, Jofra Archer, Tim David, Mohd Arshad Khan, Ramandeep Singh, Hrithik Shokeen, Arjun Tendulkar, Tristan Stubbs, Kumar Kartikeya, Jason Behrendorff, Akash Madhwal, Cameron Green, Riley Meredith, Piyush Chawla, Duan Jansen, Vishnu Vinod, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, and Raghav Goyal.