Rohit Sharma once again failed in the qualifier.Image Credit Source: PTI
Mumbai Indians made a strong comeback after the poor start of the IPL 2025 season and made their place in the playoffs. In the playoffs too, when he encountered the Gujarat Titans in the Eliminator match, Mumbai Indians won by 20 runs and made it to the second qualifier. Rohit Sharma played an important role in the victory of Mumbai in the eliminator, whose big innings came out of the bat. Rohit would have been expected to expect such a performance in the qualifier but it could not happen and Rohit Sharma was dismissed within just 3 overs.
The second qualifier match of the tournament was played on Sunday 1 June at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, which was to be decided by the second team of the final. Due to rain, this match started with a delay of exactly a quarter and a half hours. Mumbai had earlier batting in this match. After a long wait, when the match started, Mumbai’s opener landed for batting and like the eliminator match, the team once again got a big relief in the second over. Rohit Sharma’s catch was missed by Kyle Jaymison, who was just 3 runs at that time.
This time could not take advantage of the opportunity
As soon as Rohit’s catch was missed, everyone remembered the eliminator match. This is because in that match in Mullanpur, Mumbai also batted first and Rohit’s catch was missed on the score of only 3 runs in the second over itself. Then on the score of 5 runs, Rohit’s catch was jumped again and that too was dropped by the fielder of Gujarat. After this, ‘Hitman’ played a strong innings of 81 runs. But this time this did not happen and Rohit Sharma did not get another life. In the third over, when he was on a score of 8 runs, Marcus Stoinis was caught out.
Failed in qualifier for 10th time
In this way, Rohit could not take advantage of life this time and could only score 8 runs. This failure of Rohit also proved the fear of Mumbai fans, which was going on for many previous matches. In fact, whenever Rohit played a qualifier match in the history of IPL, he failed in it. Earlier, only 81 runs were scored with Rohit’s bat in 9 qualifier matches. In this way, his story did not change in the qualifier for the 10th time and he returned to the pavilion after scoring only 8 runs.