Rohit Sharma gave his best performance of IPL 2025 in a crucial knockout match for the Mumbai Indians when his team faced the in-form Gujarat Titans in New Chandigarh on Friday night. In the eliminator match, Mumbai defeated Gujarat in a high-scoring thriller to secure a place in the second qualifier against Punjab Kings on Sunday. Rohit played a key role in taking five-time champions Mumbai Indians closer to another IPL title. He played a blistering innings of 81 runs in 50 balls, helping Mumbai post a mammoth score of 228/5 in 20 overs. Rohit Sharma was awarded the POTM award for this brilliant innings.
What did Rohit Sharma say after winning the POTM award?
Rohit said,
“𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒇-𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒈 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓. 𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆.”
Rohit Sharma is the second-highest run-scorer for Mumbai in IPL 2025 with 410 runs, while Suryakumar Yadav is in first place with 673 runs. Rohit also got some luck in his innings, as Gujarat’s fielding was very poor in the beginning, and two of his catches were missed.
Luck was on my side – Rohit
He further said,
“𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕. 𝑻𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆, 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒕. 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒅𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏.”
He said.
“𝑾𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒅𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒘. 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆, 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅,” 𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒅.
South Africa’s Ryan Rickelton left to prepare for the World Test Championship final, after which Mumbai included England’s Jonny Bairstow as an opener for the playoffs. Bairstow proved this decision right by playing a blistering innings of 47 runs in 22 balls. Regarding him, the Hitman said,
“𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑩𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒘 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔. 𝑾𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒅𝒐 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑯𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒓. 𝑾𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕.”
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