Rohit Sharma Not In MI Playing XI For LSG Clash Amid Poor Form. Hardik Pandya Reveals Reason

Rohit Sharma is missing for five -time Indian Champion Mumbai while Captain Hardy Pandya won the draw and chose to play the first against Lucknow’s Super Giants, who included Akash Deep, in match 16 of IPL 2025 at the BRSABV Ekana Cricket stadium on Friday. The two teams are in the lower half of the points table and a victory for one of them would force them to join the train of the four points. After winning the draw, Pandya said Rohit had been hit in the knee in the nets and is therefore not available for Friday’s match. In the absence of Rohit, the rapid rapid RAJ Angad Bawa received its debut in IM. Bawa came nearby after taking five counters against England and led India to win the 2022 U19 male World Cup final.

Bawa, who plays for Chandigarh in domestic cricket, is the grandson of Trilochan Singh, who won the gold medal for the Indian Hockey team at the 1948 London Olympic Games. His father Sukhwinder Bawa is a leading cricket coach in Chandigarh and gave Raj his first cricket lessons.

“It looks like a fresh porter. I don’t know how he will play. It looks like a decent track. The dew could come later. We think better to continue. I think we talked in a group that we don’t want to talk about the counters.”

“We are here to play the right cricket. This is the conversation we have. Let’s not talk about surfaces. I think the adaptation. Stay in good plans and be intelligent. Many races are marked. He (Jasprit Bumrah) should be back soon, “said Pandya.

The LSG skipper, Rishabh Pant, said that Kash had recovered from the back injury he had suffered in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series and arrives for the left arm spinner M Siddharth. “I think we are quite confident as a unit of strikers. We are a very strong unit, but few of our players have not come out of me. ”

“We had spoken to playing in a certain way throughout the tournament. The general discussion is to go there and to express you. We did not talk about Target that we want to make. Just play the ball and look at the ball and react. I think we are quite confident. The way I settled myself-once we have started,” he said.

Friday’s match will be played on pitch number six, in black floor. The square limits are respectively at 66 m and 73 m, with a straight limit relatively long at 78 m.

Play xis:

Lucknow Super Giants: Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant (Captain & WK), Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Akash Deep and Avesh Khan

Mumbai Indians: Will Jacks, Ryan Rickelton (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Hhelik Pandya (Captain), Naman Dir, Raj Bawa, Mitchell Santner, Trent Boult, Ashwani Kumar, Deepak Chahar and Vignesh Puthur