{"id":22112,"date":"2025-04-07T20:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T15:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=585697"},"modified":"2025-04-07T20:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T15:26:04","slug":"ipl-2025-mi-vs-rcb-rohit-sharma-comes-in-as-impact-player-replaces-vignesh-puthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2025-mi-vs-rcb-rohit-sharma-comes-in-as-impact-player-replaces-vignesh-puthur\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2025, MI vs RCB: Rohit Sharma comes in as Impact Player, replaces Vignesh Puthur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Royal Challengers Bengaluru reached <strong>152\/4 in 15.1 overs<\/strong>, Mumbai Indians captain <strong>Hardik Pandya<\/strong> delivered a game-shifting spell and achieved a personal milestone, completing <strong>200 wickets in T20 cricket<\/strong>. His 15th over removed both <strong>Virat Kohli (67 off 42)<\/strong> and <strong>Liam Livingstone (0 off 2)<\/strong>, putting the brakes on RCB\u2019s momentum after a fiery start.<\/p>\n<p>In a tactical move, <strong>Rohit Sharma<\/strong> was introduced as an <strong>Impact Player<\/strong> by Mumbai Indians, replacing <strong>Vignesh Puthur<\/strong>. Rohit will bat in the second innings, giving MI a boost of experience and aggression at the top for the chase. His early exposure to RCB\u2019s batting from the dugout might help him assess conditions better and plan the pursuit.<\/p>\n<h3>Over Summary (Overs 11\u201315)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rajat Patidar<\/strong> struck two boundaries off Hardik Pandya\u2019s second over.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mitchell Santner<\/strong> leaked <strong>20 runs<\/strong> in his final over (14th), as Kohli and Patidar went big.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hardik Pandya<\/strong> bounced back in the 15th over, dismissing Kohli and Livingstone in three balls.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jitesh Sharma<\/strong> and <strong>Patidar<\/strong> now look to stabilize the innings after a sudden collapse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With five overs remaining and six wickets in hand, RCB will aim to push the total beyond 200. All eyes now turn to MI\u2019s upcoming chase \u2014 with <strong>Rohit Sharma back in action<\/strong>, the Wankhede crowd has reason to cheer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Royal Challengers Bengaluru reached 152\/4 in 15.1 overs, Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya delivered a game-shifting spell and achieved\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}