Gujarat Titans head coach Ashish Nehra celebrated Rohit Sharma’s wicket animatedly from the dugout on Tuesday at the Wankhede Stadium. It seemed like GT’s plan to bring left-arm seamer Arshad Khan against Rohit Sharma worked.Rohit Sharma managed seven runs off eight balls.This is the third time in this tournament that a left-arm seamer has dismissed Rohit Sharma. The matchup worked in favor of the Titans.Arshad bent his back and hit the deck hard. The delivery was on the stumps, and Rohit backed away and swung hard at it, looking to go downtown but got it off the splice of the bat and offered a simple catch to Prasidh Krishna at mid-off.Since IPL 2023, Rohit Sharma has been dismissed 12 times by left-arm seamers. In this edition alone, he has succumbed to left-arm quicks thrice.
Although Rohit has an exceptional record in the IPL, left-arm seamers have troubled him. The in-swinging delivery has always been his weakness.Three left-arm seamers have dismissed Rohit thrice each in the IPL: Trent Boult, James Faulkner, and Jaydev Unadkat.Overall, Boult holds the record for dismissing Rohit the most times among left-arm pacers in T20s.The Indian batter has been dismissed by Boult as many as six times in just 15 T20 innings. Notably, both Boult and Rohit will play for MI this time.Who’s that IPL player?Earlier, Gujarat Titans skipper Shubman Gill won the toss and elected to bowl against Mumbai Indians in the IPL match at Wankhede Stadium on Tuesday.Gujarat brought back pacer Arshad Khan in place of Washington Sundar, while MI retained the same playing eleven from the last match.Pacer Kagiso, who was absent from the IPL after the team’s first couple of games, has rejoined the side, but Gill said the South African perhaps needs a few more training sessions before entering the playing field.
