Former Indian batter Virender Sehwag has strongly slammed Rohit Sharma, as he has failed to perform with the bat for Mumbai Indians in the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Rohit Sharma came to face Sunrisers Hyderabad wit only 56 runs to his name in five matches of the current season, and was eventually dismissed by Pat Cummins on 26 runs.
His consistent dismal performances with the bat has attracted a lot of criticism from experts and followers. Virender Sehwag has stated that Rohit Sharma should focus on protecting his legacy of scoring 400 runs in a single IPL season.
Sehwag even suggested Rohit that it might be a great moment for him to consider retiring from the 20-over league.
“If you look at Rohit’s IPL numbers in the last 10 years, he scored more than 400 runs only once. So he is not the kind of player who thinks that I need to score 500 or 700 runs. If he thinks, he might. When he became the Indian captain, he said that he wanted to be the player who wants to cash in on the powerplay and take the chances, so he wanted to make all the sacrifices alone, but he is not considering the fact that at the end of the day when he is not performing, it is your legacy that is getting hurt. Ab uska jaane ka time aagaya, (It’s already time for him to retire), and before retiring, you would want to give fans something to remember you by, and not moments that force them to think, why are they not dropping him,” he said.
“Take 10 balls extra, but at least play and give yourself a chance. He has been getting out to that pull shot many times against the back of the length deliveries. So he should decide that in one innings he will not play the pull shot at all. But who will explain it to him? There should be someone telling him to play normal cricket. When I was there, Sachin, Dravid or Ganguly used to tell me to play normal cricket,” he added.
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