Rohit Sharma astatine Ranji lucifer successful Mumbai . Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty
India skipper Rohit Sharma’s instrumentality to home cricket aft a decennary lasted conscionable 28 minutes, his indecision to propulsion the shot oregon permission it effect agelong successful a starring borderline erstwhile facing Jammu and Kashmir accelerated bowler Umar Nazir. He had made conscionable 3 disconnected 19 balls erstwhile helium was caught astatine mid-off by Paras Dogra. Earlier, Rohit played retired a maiden implicit from Nazir. Spectators astatine the MCA-BKC Ground welcomed Rohit with the slogan ‘Mumbai ka Raja-Rohit Sharma’ but successful the mediate the instrumentality favourite successful these parts of the satellite struggled arsenic his feet didn’t determination well.
Rohit’s past quality for the Mumbai squad was successful 2015 against Uttar Pradesh. He had a bid of mediocre scores during India’s circuit of Australia; 3,9, 10, 3, 6 runs, successful 4 Test matches. He past decided to opt retired for the past Test against Australia successful Sydney.
Meanwhile, in-form Test opener Yashasvi Jaiswal innings lasted conscionable 8 balls and was trapped LBW by an incoming transportation from Auqib Nabi for conscionable 4 runs.
Test No.3 Shubman Gill excessively didn’t marque his outing for Punjab number arsenic helium scored conscionable 11 runs against Karnataka with the squad reeling astatine 14 for 4.
The BCCI had reiterated past week that contracted Indian cricketers indispensable play home cricket erstwhile not connected nationalist duty. Virat Kohli, besides struggling to find signifier contempt a period successful the archetypal Test successful Australia, has been included successful the Delhi squad for the crippled against Railways from January 30.
Mumbai were successful a spot of fuss arsenic skipper Ajinkya Rahane was besides backmost successful the pavilion aft Nazir bowled him for conscionable 12.
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