IPL 2023, Rohit Sharma, captain photoshoot: For the last one or two days, many different news are coming out regarding Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma. The team is scheduled to begin its campaign on April 2 against RCB in Bengaluru. Where is the captain of the team before that? This question will be in everyone’s mind.
Only 9 captains instead of 10 in the photoshoot :-
The tension of the fans has increased due to the news coming about Rohit Sharma, as well as something happened on Thursday which must have made the fans more upset. Actually on Thursday the photoshoot of all the captains of IPL 2023 took place. There are 10 teams playing in IPL 16 but in the photo shoot there were only 9 captains instead of 10.
Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma missing from this photo :-
Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma was missing from this photo. As soon as this photo surfaced, there was a stir on social media between the fans of Mumbai Indians and Hitman.
There was only one question everywhere, where is Rohit Sharma? Everyone was looking forward to get an update on their favorite player. This news is all the more disturbing when a report came out two days ago that Rohit might miss some of the opening matches for Mumbai.
However, the reason for this was said to be workload management. But the information that came out about him on Thursday increased everyone’s concern.
Rohit Sharma’s health deteriorated :-
The reason for Rohit Sharma not appearing in the Captain photoshoot has been revealed in a report. TOI reported that Rohit did not appear in the captain’s photoshoot and pre-season meet due to ill health. Apart from him, there was also Bhuvneshwar Kumar who will captain the Sunrisers in the absence of Aiden Markram.
Apart from this, Nitish Rana, who is taking charge of KKR in place of Shreyas Iyer, was also present in it. But Rohit was told that his health was not good and that is why he could not reach Ahmedabad for this program. But it has been said that, he can be present during the first match of the team.
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Hitman to stay out of opening matches?
Rohit Sharma is the captain of Team India and after IPL he has to handle the team in major tournaments like World Test Championship Final, Asia Cup and ODI World Cup. In such a situation, it is mandatory to manage their workload.
It is being said about the same that Rohit may stay out of the team in the initial matches. Regarding this, team coach Mark Boucher had also said that he can give Rohit a definite rest for few matches. That is, it can also be the reason that the regular captain of Mumbai Indians may be late with the team or may not be able to play some of the opening matches. Because of this, he could not even reach the photoshoot. However, no official information has been released on this yet.
Squad of Mumbai Indians :-
Cameron Green, Rohit Sharma (c), Ishan Kishan, Tim David, Suryakumar Yadav, Jofra Archer, Devald Brewis, Tilak Verma, Jason Behrendorff; Piyush Chawla, Arjun Tendulkar, Ramandeep Singh, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Kumar Karthikeya, Hrithik Shokeen ; Akash Madhwal, Arshad Khan, Raghav Goyal, Duane Yanson, Tristan Strubbs and Vishnu Vinod.
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