Kolkata Knight Riders beat Mumbai Indians by 18 runs and become the first team to qualify for the Playoffs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024.

New Delhi: Former Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma is currently going through a rough patch of his career he is unable to score runs in the ongoing Indian Premier League and because of this MI becomes the first team to out of the tournament. In the recently concluded match against Kolkata Knight Riders, Rohit departed after scoring 19 runs off 24 balls. After Rohit, MI star batter Sunryakumar Yadav also lost his wicket after scoring 11 runs in 14 balls. Because of that five-time champions MI lost that match by 18 runs.

Sehwag was not too happy how Rohit and Suryakumar lost their wickets while chasing 157 runs. Rohit was dismissed while playing an aggressive shot against Chakravarthy. SKY’s wicket proved to be the turning point as he was capable of single-handedly leading Mumbai to victory as he did by scoring a century in their match against SRH a few days ago.

“Whoever bowls good, just play him out. If two wickets hadn’t fallen, Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav could’ve finished the match an over before. Vaibhav Arora, Mitchell Starc, Andre Russell and Harshit Rana had to ball anyway; if they played out the spinners and didn’t lose the wickets, they would’ve won the game,” Sehwag told Cricbuzz.

“You can’t have an ego when you come out to bat. You play them out or punish the loose deliveries. Naman Dhir came right at the end and smashed two sixes and a four; if Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav were set at that time, they would’ve hit 5 balls for boundaries.

“You could be Rohit Sharma or Suryakumar Yadav, but at least respect the delivery if you can’t respect the bowler. The ball on which Rohit Sharma got out wasn’t a weak ball. No doubt Rohit and Suryakumar are great players, but that doesn’t mean you should hit the good deliveries, too,” Sehwag said further.

After winning the game against MI, KKR becomes the first team to qualify for the playoffs.