IPL 2024: Why Rohit Sharma played as Impact Player in MI vs KKR? Read inside
MI batter Rohit Sharma
Former Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma played as Impact Sub in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 match against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on May 3 due to back stiffness. The information was confirmed by his teammate Piyush Chawla at the post-match presentation.
"He just had a mild back stiffness so it was just a precautionary thing," Chawla said.
It was another sad day in the field for the five-time champions as they lost their eighth gameout of 11 played this season so far. The loss meant that MI are now hanging by a thread to make it to the playoffs. The only silver lining for MI in the match was Chawla overtaking Dwayne Bravo to become the second highest wicket taker in the league.
Talking about the milestone, Chawla said: "It has been a beautiful journey because IPL started 17 years back and at that time nobody gave that much preference to the spinners, but now if you see that in top few wicket-takers from India are all the spinners, [R] Ashwin, Yuzi [Yuzvendra Chahal], myself, so it's a good feeling."
As for the season, the spinner had no illusions about where the team stands and what's left to play for in the rest of the season: "For the pride and the reputation," he said, "because sometimes when you enter on the field, you don't think whether you are going to qualify or you are not going to qualify. You have to play for your name and that's what we are playing for."
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In the match, KKR posted a modest 169 on a two-paced Wankhede pitch, thanks largely to Venkatesh Iyer's 70 off 52 and Manish Pandey's 31-ball 42.
Chasing the total, MI was never in the hunt except during Suryakumar Yadav's 35-ball 56-run innings. They were eventually bowled out for 145, losing the match by 24 runs.