'Football mat khel injured ho jayega' - Fans react as MI skipper Rohit Sharma spotted playing football ahead of match against GT in IPL 2023

A section of Indian cricket fans took it as an opportunity to troll Rohit Sharma on the micro-blogging site as soon the picture of him...

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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:

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.

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