Frustrations have been fairly seen within the Mumbai Indians (MI) camp after dropping one more contest to stay winless within the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022. Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) handed MI their sixth defeat in a row at Brabourne cricket stadium on Saturday.
Lucknow skipper KL Rahul starred with the willow, hitting a superb century to assist his staff put up 199/4 of their allotted 20 overs. In reply, Mumbai may solely attain 181/9, dropping the sport by 18 runs.
Be it batting, bowling and fielding, the Rohit Sharma-led facet upset followers in all of the three departments. One of many main reason behind concern was one other failure of their opening batter Ishan Kishan.
Ishan, who was purchased for a large quantity of INR 15.25 crore within the IPL 2022 mega auctions held earlier this yr, couldn’t rise as much as the expectations but once more as he scored simply 13 runs off 17 balls earlier than being cleaned up by LSG all-rounder Marcus Stoinis.
After getting out in an unlucky manner – dragging the ball again onto his stumps – Ishan was expectedly gutted as he displayed his frustration whereas strolling again in direction of the MI dugout. Because the explosive opener reached the top of the bottom, he smashed the boundary cushions, along with his bat exhibiting how irritated he was with himself.
The video of the identical has now gone viral on social media. Notably, the act of Ishan is prone to fall underneath the breach of the code of conduct, and he would possibly get fined for his actions as properly.
Right here is the video:
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After the sport, MI skipper Rohit Sharma mirrored on his facet’s poor efficiency, taking full duty for the best way issues panned out within the recreation towards Lucknow.
“Exhausting to level out one explicit scenario, if you find yourself chasing a complete, we’d like large partnerships, one thing we did not do at present. There’s no explicit cause for it, we try to put the staff earlier than the person. They bat fairly deep, and you will need to maintain your key bowlers in direction of the again finish. We at all times try to maintain Bumrah for the again finish, and it didn’t appear to work out. He bowled fairly properly, however the others simply want to drag up their socks a bit bit,” stated Rohit on the post-match presentation.
