‘It isn’t a criminal offense to be out of shape, however …’: Anjum Chopra weighs in on Rohit Sharma’s kind woes in IPL 2025 | Cricket Information

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NEW DELHI: Rohit Sharma’s lackluster begin to the IPL 2025 season has raised eyebrows, and former India ladies’s captain Anjum Chopra believes it’s having a ripple impact on Mumbai Indians’ marketing campaign.
The Hardik Pandya-led MI have received simply two of their six matches thus far and at the moment sit seventh on the factors desk. Rohit, in the meantime, has scores of 0, 8, 13, 17, and 18 — figures which have pushed him into an “Influence Participant” function relatively than his typical beginning XI slot.
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“You could be out of shape. It isn’t a criminal offense to be out of shape. The one concept is that it is not serving to, it is not setting the beginning that Mumbai Indians have been in search of or are in search of proper on the prime,” Anjum advised PTI Movies in an unique interplay on Tuesday.
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She steered that MI may think about pushing Rohit down the order to alleviate strain and spark a turnaround.

“They’ve choices. They’ll at all times have a look at pushing Rohit Sharma down the order… It is simply that typically you do not begin the event on that good a observe and it may well have an effect on you as a batter,” she added.
Regardless of the poor begin, Anjum stays assured in Rohit’s pedigree: “He hasn’t received that form of a begin, however we all know what sort of a match-winner he’s.”