Rohit Sharma in action for Mumbai Indians in IPL 2024© AFP
Indian cricket team skipper Rohit Sharma revealed that he does not stay with his Mumbai Indians teammates during the home matches in the ongoing IPL 2024. During a recent interaction, Rohit said that he stays at home when there is a match at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai and he arrives an hour before whenever there is a team meeting. Otherwise, he revealed that he is spending time with his family and commuting to the ground from his house. “I am staying at home actually. The last four matches Mumbai Indians played here (Wankhede), I was staying at home. Just going an hour before when we have the team meeting. It’s been good, a little different but good,” Rohit said on Club Prairie Firepodcast.
Earlier, Rohit also opened up about the Impact Rule in IPL and how he believes that it can end up affecting young all-rounders in a negative way.
“I genuinely feel it is going to hold back the development of all-rounders because eventually cricket is played by 11 players, not 12. So I am not a big fan of the Impact Player Rule because you are taking so much from the game just to make it a little more entertaining for the people around you. But just in the cricketing aspect of it, I feel guys like Washington Sundar, and Shivam Dube are not getting to bowl, which is not a good thing for us (India). I am not sure what you can do about it, but I am not a fan of it,” said Rohit in the Club Prairie Fire podcast.
“It is entertaining though, as there are 12 players to select from and whoever that Impact player is, can see how the game is going and change it based on what you need, and how the pitch is behaving. If you bat well and don’t lose too many wickets, you can add a bowler, which gives you the option of having 6-7 bowlers. You don’t need that extra batter because a lot of the teams upfront are batting well and you hardly see No. 7 or 8 coming to bat,” the right-hand batter added.
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