Former Mumbai Indians (MI) captain Rohit Sharma flopped with the bat in the 63rd match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 against the Delhi Capitals (DC) on Wednesday, May 21.
Rohit Sharma was cleaned up by the Delhi Capitals (DC) left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman as the wicketkeeper-batsman Abishek Porel grabbed an excellent catch at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
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Rohit Sharma scores 5 runs against Delhi Capitals
The star opening batsman Rohit was unable to do any major damage with the bat while opening the innings with Ryan Rickelton in the important match against the Delhi Capitals.
He didn’t look good in the middle while facing the DC bowlers, and he eventually fell in the third over of the innings, which was bowled by the left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman.
On the second ball of the over, Mustafizur Rahman bowled a 132.4 kmph scrambled seam, full and angling away delivery to Rohit well outside off-stump.
The Indian batting superstar tried to smash the ball hard over mid-on but only managed to get a thick outside edge. The ball went flying towards Abishek Porel, who dived to his right to complete a brilliant catch with both hands and send Rohit Sharma packing for 5-ball 5 runs.
Rohit Sharma has got a poor record against Mustafizur Rahman in T20 cricket, as in 12 innings, he has scored just 122 runs at an average of 30.50 and a strike rate of 167.12 while being dismissed 4 times.
Watch: Rohit Sharma falls to Abishek Porel’s stunner
— Drizzyat12Kennyat8 (@45kennyat7PM) May 21, 2025
In the Indian Premier League since 2024, Rohit Sharma has faced 95 balls against the left-arm pacers in the powerplay and has scored just 150 runs at an average of 18.75 and a strike rate of 157.89 while being dismissed 8 times.
Overall, Rohit has faced 566 balls against left-arm pacers in IPL and has scored 765 runs at an average of 23.18 and a strike rate of 135.15 while being dismissed 33 times.
Here’s how fans reacted to Rohit Sharma’s struggles against left-arm pacers
Rohit Sharma as soon as a left arm pacer comes to bowl. #MIvDC pic.twitter.com/V570U3Twr9
— Bharat Jain (@EdgedAndGone) May 21, 2025
Once again Rohit Sharma give his wicket against Left arm pacer.#MIvsDC pic.twitter.com/j8bvFx7lhb
— Third umpire talk (@Jabirah786) May 21, 2025
Left Arm Fast chahe Australia se ho ya Bangladesh se, Rohit Sharma getting out is permanent 💀 pic.twitter.com/J8NMIKsy9s
— Dinda Academy (@academy_dinda) May 21, 2025
left arm pacer and rohit sharma story that never changed #MIvDC
— Priyanka yadav (@priyankay6783) May 21, 2025
Rohit Sharma once again out to a left arm pacer.
— Vipul 🇮🇳 (@Vipul_Espeaks) May 21, 2025
Left arm bowler le aao,chahe Gali cricket se v kyu na ho.
Rohit k liye kaafi hai😂🤣
Ye 2027 wc khelega SA me🤣
— Mr.CONSISTENT (@RR_Since1999) May 21, 2025
Yes, definitely, I don’t think we’ve had a complete game – Hardik Pandya
Speaking at the toss, MI skipper Hardik Pandya highlighted the importance of the match for the Mumbai Indians and said that they are yet to play a complete game in the Indian Premier League 2025. He elaborated:
“Every game is important from now onwards. If we want to go ahead, we want to play our best cricket. The boys are very excited. On a lot of things, we’ve been spot-on.
“(Best yet to come?) Yes, definitely, I don’t think we’ve had a complete game. We’d like to tick all the boxes, play some really dominating cricket. If we can do that tonight, it’d be very nice. They (crowd) have been fantastic. They have backed us even when we weren’t on a roll in the initial stage. One change, Mitch (Santner) comes, back, Bosch misses out.”
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