Credit: BCCI/IPL
Mumbai Indians’ star batter Rohit Sharma received a special memento at Wankhede Stadium ahead of the IPL 2025 clash against Sunrisers Hyderabad. The five-time IPL winning captain, was presented with the memento by BCCI President Roger Binny ahead of the ongoing match. The memento was given to him for completing 18 years in the cash-rich league.
Rohit Sharma played a major role in shaping Mumbai Indians’ legacy over the years. Starting his IPL career Deccan Chargers Rohit won his first title in 2009. In 2011, Rohit joined MI and was appointed as the captain of the franchise in 2013. Since then, MI won five titles (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020) in the IPL under his captaincy becoming the joint-most successful team in the IPL. Rohit is also third highest run getter in IPL history with 6684 runs from 262 matches in his career so far.
SRH lose 3 wickets as MI make a comeback at Wankhede
Talking about the match, coming to bat first after losing the toss, SRH got a good start Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head put up an opening partnership of 59 runs in 7.3 overs. Abhishek got out after scoring 40 runs off 28 balls hitting seven boundaries as skipper Hardik Pandya gave first breakthrough to MI
However, MI didn’t take much time to take a second wicket as Ishan Kishan got out after scoring two runs against Will Jacks. After a few overs, Jacks struck again a he went Travis Head back to the pavilion at the score of 28(29) runs reducing SRH to 82/3 in 11.1 overs. Currenty, Nitish Kumar Reddy is at the crease with Heinrich Klaasen as both the batters are taking the innings further.
