Rohit Sharma's injury fears back ahead of T20 World Cup 2024: ‘Facing mild back stiffness….’

MI skipper Hardik Pandya introduced Rohit Sharma arsenic an 'Impact Player' during the team's batting, but helium couldn't marque overmuch interaction with his 11-run inning. The fans wondered astir the reasons down his lack from the field, and later, seasoned spinner Piyush Chawla revealed that Rohit Sharma was facing mild stiffness successful his back. 

"He conscionable had a mild backmost stiffness, truthful it was conscionable a precautionary thing," Piyush Chawla said portion speaking to the media astatine the Wankhede Stadium aft the MI vs KKR IPL 2024 match. 

While determination is nary authoritative update astir Rohit Sharma's fitness, the Indian skipper has been facing backmost issues for a portion now. During the last India vs England Test match, Rohit Sharma took a time disconnected from the tract owed to a stiff back, and pacer Jasprit Bumrah led the squad successful his absence.

Rohit Sharma's concerning T20 form

Rohit Sharma's signifier has been a changeless origin of interest successful the T20 format of cricket. While the opener is playing immoderate fantastic innings successful the ODI and Test formats, Rohit Sharma is incapable to regain his bushed successful the shortest format. 

In the existent play of IPL, Rohit Sharma's performance has been inconsistent arsenic the MI opener has 1 period to his name, but that was his lone 50+ people successful IPL 2024. 

Senior players similar Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli remained distant from the T20 format aft being knocked retired of the T20 World Cup 2022 but made a comeback during the India vs. Afghanistan bid astatine the opening of this year. 

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Published: 04 May 2024, 04:02 PM IST