Rohit Sharma hits rare and historic ‘double century’ for Mumbai Indians Cricket News

Mumbai Indians (MI) star batsman and former Indian Premier League (IPL) captain Rohit Sharma will play his 200th league match for the team on Wednesday. He was named in the starting XI for the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. SRH and MI will face off in IPL 2024 in Hyderabad. The two teams lost their openers to Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Gujarat Titans (GT) by narrow margins of four and six runs respectively.

Rohit is an absolute legend for Mumbai Indians. Since joining the team as a budding talent in 2011, Rohit has played 199 IPL matches in blue and gold, scoring 5,084 runs at an average of 29.39 and a strike rate of 129.86. He scored 100’s, 34’s and 50’s in 195 innings for MI with a best score of 109*.

After taking over the captaincy from Ricky Ponting in 2013, Rohit led the MI team into its golden period, winning the trophy five times in 10 years (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020) and Made the playoffs twice. Hardik Pandya replaced him as captain last year and after moving to the franchise, he had two great years with Gujarat Titans (GT), including a title-winning run in 2022 In the first season, become a star.

Rohit also won two Champions League T20 titles with MI as captain in 2011 and 2013. The ‘Killer’ is MI’s all-time leading run-scorer with 5,357 runs in 208 games and 204 innings at an average of 29.59 and a strike rate of nearly 130, scoring 100s and 35 fifties in 204 innings. .

As a youngster, Rohit also played for the now-defunct Deccan Chargers, a team he played for Hyderabad between 2008 and 2010. He played 45 games for the team and scored 1,170 runs at an average of 30.79 with a strike rate of over 131 and hit eight fifties in 44 innings. His best score is 76*. He led the team to win the IPL title in the 2009 season, making him a six-time IPL champion.

The veteran batsman is the fourth-highest run-scorer in IPL history with 6,254 runs in 244 games at an average of 29.63 and a strike rate of 130.15. He scored 1:42:50 in 239 innings, with a best score of 109*.

As the man who led MI for a long time, Rohit was an institution in his own right and he and MI shaped the career trajectory of many future Indian stars like Ishan Kishan, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pandya, Tilak Varma, Ambati Rayadu and many more.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Mayank Agarwal, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Marco Jansen, Pat Cummins(c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, T Natarajan, Travis Head , Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar, Jaydev Unadkat, Anmolpreet Singh, Upendra Yadav, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Umran Malik, Jhatavedh Subramanyan, Sanvir Singh, Akash Maharaj Singh, Nitish Reddy

Mumbai Indians:Ishan Kishan(w), Rohit Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Hardik Pandya(c), Shams Mulani, Gerald Coetzee, Piyush Chawla, Jasprit Bumrah, Luke Wood, Naman Dhir, Romario Shepherd, Mohammad Nabi, Shreyas Gopal , Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Nehal Wadhera, Kumar Kartikeya, Shivalik Sharma, Anshul Kamboj, Akash Madhwal, Nuwan Suchhara, Kwena Maphaka.