Mumbai: The Indian team defeated Sri Lanka on the third day of the Pink Ball Test. Indian team won the match by a huge margin of 238 runs. Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the Indian team made a clean sweep of the two-match series 2-0. Now the players of the Indian team are going to play in IPL 2022 (IPL). The league is going to start on 26 March between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders.
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Jasprit Bumrah is also a part of his team
Rohit Sharma is the captain of Mumbai Indians in the league and Jasprit Bumrah is also a part of his team. Hours after their victory over Sri Lanka in Bangalore, both the players reached Mumbai and joined their IPL team. Both entered the team hotel on Monday night itself. Rohit Sharma was accompanied by his wife Ritika Sajhed and daughter.
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Captain Rohit Sharma could not do any great feat in the Test series. The team may have clean sweep the series, but Rohit got a chance to bat in three innings and he got out every time he was set up. Prior to that, he did not play a big innings in the first match of the T20 series. At the same time, the team’s vice-captain Bumrah took 8 wickets while bowling brilliantly in the Pink Ball Test against Sri Lanka.
The team of 5-time champion Mumbai Indians will play their first match against Delhi Capitals on March 27
The team of 5-time champion Mumbai Indians will play their first match against Delhi Capitals on March 27. In the last season, Rohit Sharma’s team was not able to perform as expected. The team’s game lacked consistency and due to this, it failed to make it to the playoffs as well. Prior to that in 2019 and 2020, Mumbai had won the league trophy for two consecutive seasons. This time there are not many big names in the team of Mumbai Indians to make him the champion. The team did not retain the Indian team’s all-rounder Hardik Pandya. Hardik is now going to be seen playing for Gujarat.