Mumbai Indians have suffered a setback while marching into TATA IPL 2022 as the side has lost nearly six matches straight, becoming the only team to lose consecutive defeats, followed by CSK which has secured a single win against RCB. The five-time champions are yet to secure a win of the season but have seen the worst performance in the season in their history of IPL, the franchise is surely feeling the heat. Rohit Sharma, after suffering defeat, said in a post-match presentation:
Hard to point out one particular situation, when you are chasing a total we need big partnerships, something we failed to do today. There’s no particular reason for it, we try and put the team before the individual. They bat quite deep and it is important to hold your key bowlers towards the back end. We always try and keep Bumrah for the back end and it didn’t seem to work out. He bowled pretty well but the others just need to pull up their socks a little bit. Every game we play is an opportunity, we try and think what our best playing XI is best suited for the particular conditions and particular team. We lost 6 games now, we are trying to understand what our right combination is, but it all depends on the opposition that we play. When you lose games it is very easy to point out that changes are being made but we try and go with our best eleven. I think KL batted brilliantly that is something missing from our team, wanted someone in our top four to bat as long as possible which is not happening, don’t want to look too much into it. We haven’t won a game yet but we need to keep our heads high. I’m trying to prepare myself in the way I prepare for every game, that is no different. It’s not coming off, I take the full responsibility of no putting the team in the situation of what they expect from me. I back myself to go out there and enjoy the game and doing what I have been doing all these years. It’s important to keep looking forward. It’s not the end of the world, we have come back before and we will try and comeback again.
