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 Maharashtra 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. #CSKvsMI
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) April 28, 2018
#MI have won two games. Rohit scored in both the games. His form is directly proportional to #MI’s fortunes. Must not bat lower than 3. #CSKvMI #IPL
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) April 28, 2018
@ImRo45 is watching #selectdugout hitting left handed 6’s !!! #loveit
— Dean Jones AM (@ProfDeano) April 28, 2018
Captain's knock by Rohit 👏👏👏#CSKvMI
— Gaurav Kapur (@gauravkapur) April 28, 2018
#MumbaiIndians needed their captain to play the kind of innings he can. Top effort from #RohitSharma
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) April 28, 2018
Well played captain #sharma! Much needed win for #MumbaiIndians.. I assume they have got the momentum back. #CSKvMI #VIVOIPL2018
— Pragyan Ojha (@pragyanojha) April 28, 2018
Congratulations @mipaltan on the victory, Well Played @ImRo45 & @ImRaina #CSKvsMI
— Rajeev Shukla (@ShuklaRajiv) April 28, 2018
Fantastic batting @ImRo45 excellent innings as captain under pressure. Huge win for @mipaltan
— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar) April 28, 2018
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. #CSKvMI
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) April 28, 2018
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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. #CSKvMI #IPL2018 @ImRo45 @mipaltan pic.twitter.com/jYadO3FfTT
— Surya Kumar Yadav (@surya_14kumar) April 28, 2018
It’s back on for @mipaltan with a hard-fought win over @ChennaiIPL @IPL has a long way to go to the playoffs! #SelectDugout #KentCricketLive
— Alan Wilkins (@alanwilkins22) April 28, 2018
Rohit Sharma stands tall and ensures we're BACK TO WINNING WAYS! 💙
We win #CSKvMI by 8 WICKETS!#क्रिकेटमेरीजान #MI pic.twitter.com/l0QafWfhBG
— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) April 28, 2018
Great fight till the end..wasn't our day. Great innings by @ImRaina! The #YellowArmy will come back much stronger! Well done @ImRo45 top inn! Congratulations @mipaltan #MIvsCSK
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) April 28, 2018
16th Man of the Match award for Rohit Sharma in IPL. Only Gayle (20) has more than him.
ABD and Yusuf Pathan also have 16 MoMs each. @mipaltan #CSKvMI
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) April 28, 2018
.@StarPlus Nayi Soch Award Winner :@ImRo45 #IPL2018 #MIvCSK #CSKvMI pic.twitter.com/ea63izDOZK
— CricketTimes.com (@CricketTimesHQ) April 29, 2018
Players with most unbeaten 50s in WON matches in #IPL:
13 AB de Villiers / ROHIT SHARMA
12 MS Dhoni / Suresh Raina
11 David Warner / Chris Gayle / Gautam Gambhir #CSKvMI #MIvCSK #IPL2018— Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket) April 28, 2018
Part of most wins in IPL:
98 – MS Dhoni
97 – Suresh Raina
90 – Yusuf Pathan, ROHIT SHARMA* #CSKvMI— Umang Pabari (@UPStatsman) April 28, 2018
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 @ImRo45 turned out to be the cooler one ahead of MS Dhoni. #CSKvMI #IPL2018
— Ranit Das (@ranitd94) April 28, 2018
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