Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma has given a big reaction to the defeat against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in their first match of IPL 2023. He said that we did not bat according to our potential and it was only Tilak Verma who kept fighting alone. According to Rohit Sharma, more than 200 runs should have been scored on this pitch.

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Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Mumbai Indians by 8 wickets in the fifth match of IPL 2023 played in Bengaluru. Batting first, Mumbai Indians scored 171/7 in the allotted 20 overs. In reply, RCB achieved this target in 16.2 overs. For Mumbai, Tilak Verma played a tremendous inning and scored an unbeaten 84 off just 46 balls. Apart from him, no batsman could walk. At the same time, in bowling, all the bowlers looted a lot of runs.

We Should have Scored above 200 – Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma was not at all happy with this performance of his team. After the match he said,

We didn’t get off to a good start with the bat in the first six overs. Although Tilak Verma batted very well. He is a very positive person and has a lot of talent. He played some shots very well. It is because of him that we were able to reach a good score. It was a good pitch to bat on but we didn’t play to our potential. Perhaps 30-40 more runs could have been scored here. Our bowling was also very simple.

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Let us tell you that this is the 11th consecutive time in IPL when Mumbai Indians have lost in the very first match of the season. Apart from this, this is also their fifth defeat against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the last six matches.