Delhi: In the 57th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 on Wednesday (8 May), Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) defeated Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) by 10 wickets. This is Hyderabad's seventh win and it now has 14 points. However, with SRH's win, Mumbai Indians (MI) are officially out of the playoff race. After this, former Pakistani pacer Wasim Akram has given a big comment about former MI captain Rohit Sharma.

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The five-time IPL winning team has been in the news since the beginning of this season for many reasons. There was a change of leadership in the Mumbai team at the beginning of IPL 2024, where Rohit Sharma was removed from the captaincy and this responsibility was placed on the shoulders of Hardik Pandya. Hardik was brought back into the team by the Mumbai franchise through a trade from Gujarat Titans (GT) ahead of IPL 2024. Meanwhile, this big change did not go down well with the Mumbai fans and Hardik had to face a lot of criticism.

Meanwhile, discussions about division in the team also started. Not only this, Mumbai Indians had the honor of becoming the first team to be eliminated from the race for the IPL 2024 playoffs. Meanwhile, while talking to Sportskeeda, Wasim Akram said, “I think Rohit will not play for Mumbai Indians next year. I would love to see him in the Kolkata Knight Riders team.”

He further said, “Imagine he will be an opening batsman there. Gautam Gambhir will be the mentor and Shreyas Iyer will be the captain. After this, he will have strong batting on the Eden Gardens pitch. Rohit can bat brilliantly on any pitch. He is a very good player, but would like to see him in KKR.”

MI won 5 IPL titles under the captaincy of Hitman

It is known that under the captaincy of Rohit, Mumbai Indians have won the IPL title five times (in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020), but the team failed to win the title after 2020, after which the team was asked to leave the team before IPL 2024. The captaincy was taken away.

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