Rohit Sharma led his team from the front as he scored a match-winning half-century to help Mumbai Indians (MI) beat Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by eight wickets at the Mahara🅠shtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune on Saturday night.
With the 🧸second victory of the season, MI has jumped to sixth from the bottom in the 2018 Indian Premier League standings.
Rohit remained unbeaten on 56 off 33 balls as Mumbai chased down the competitive 170-run target with two balls to spare. He smacked two sixes and six fours to �🥂�take his team home and kept the play-offs hopes alive.
Here’s how Twitter reacted to Rohit Sharma’s brilliance:
Mumbai win their second match and stay in the hunt. It's good for the tournament that all teams are in it as far as possible. In both of Mumbai's victory, Rohit Sharma has scored a half century. He must bat in the top 3.
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif)
💎have won two games. Rohit scored in both the games. His form is directly proportional to ’s fortunes. Must not bat lower than 3.
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
is watching hitting left handed 6’s !!!
— Dean Jones AM (@ProfDeano)
Captain's knock by Rohit 👏👏👏
— Gaurav Kapur (@gauravkapur)
neede🍬d their captain to play the kind of innings h❀e can. Top effort from
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
Well played captain ! Much needed win for .. I assume they have got the momentum bacไk.
— Pragyan Ojha (@pragyanojha)
Congratulations on the victory, Well Played &✃aꦕmp;
— Rajeev Shukla (@ShuklaRajiv)
Fantastic batting excell♏ent innings as captain under pressure. Huge win for
— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar)
Rohit Sharma's teams have never lost when he has remained not out while chasing in IPL.
He has remained not out 16 times and won all – 4 times for Deccan Chargers & 12 for Mumbai Indians.
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
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Ro-HITman all way the!!! Captain's knock to lead us to a fabulous win. Much needed boost for us! Look forward to the games ahead now.
— Surya Kumar Yadav (@surya_14kumar)
It’s back on for with a 🌸hard-fought win over has a long way to go to the playoffs!
— Alan Wilkins (@alanwilkins22)
Rohit Sharma stands tall and ensures we're BACK TO WINNING WAYS! 💙
We win by 8 WICKETS!
— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan)
Great fight till the end..wasn't our day. Great innings by ! The will come back much stronger! Well done top inn! Congratulations
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh)
16tꦛh Man of the Match award for Rohit Sharma in IPL. On༒ly Gayle (20) has more than him.
ABD and Yusuf Pathan also have 16 MoMs each.
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
. Nayi Soch Award Winner :
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
Players with most unbeaten 50s in WON matches in :
13 AB de Villiers / ROHIT SHARMA
12 MS Dhoni / Suresh Raina
11 David Warner / Chris Gayle / Gautam Gambhir— Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket)
Part of most wins in IPL:
98 – MS Dhoni
97 – Suresh Raina
90 – Yusuf Pathan, ROHIT SHARMA*— Umang Pabari (@UPStatsman)
How Shardul Thakur got the ball ahead of Dwayne Bravo in the penultimate over is beyond me with just above 20 runs needed ♚from 2. 17 runs off it.
For a change turned out to be ཧthe cooler one ahead of MS Dhoni.
— Ranit Das (@ranitd94)
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