Watch: Ashwin’s wife hugs Rohit Sharma’s wife after the RR off-spinner removes the MI captain


Watch: Ashwin’s wife hugs Rohit Sharma’s wife after the RR off-spinner removes the MI captain

Rohit's wife and Ashwin's wife

In the match between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals, the latter had a decent total of 158/6. As captaincy has Mumbai innings, it was also MI skipper Rohit Sharma’s birthday win.

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Because it’s his birthday, fans had expected to see him bat superbly but he couldn’t because he went back to the dressing with just only 2 runs in the 3rd over of MI’s chase.

At that time Ravichandran Ashwin came in to bowl. He bowled a full and outside off delivery. Rohit kneeled and looked up in the air towards square leg. The ball took the top edge and lobbed up in the aim towards square leg. Daryl Mitchell then caught the ball and dismissed him.

Meanwhile, Ashwin’s wife Prithi Ashwin walked up to Rohit’s wife Ritika and hugged her because Ritika was really sad after Rohit’s dismissal.

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Mumbai Indians beat Rajasthan Royals

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Earlier, a slow pitch and a disciplined bowling helped Mumbai Indians batsmen to at least get their two points. When RR was batting, all hopes were with Jos Buttler because he scored 67. With the help of Jos Buttler, RR were able to score 158/6 in 20 overs.

Mumbai were thankful to the brilliant innings of Suryakumar Yadav. He smashed a half-century with 67 off 52 with 5 fours and 4 sixes to help his team smash a decent total.

Suryakumar scored 51 off 39 balls with 5 fours and 2 sixes. He was supported from the other ends by Tilak Verma who scored 35 runs off 30 balls with a four and 2 sixes.

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“This is the team we played in the first couple of games except few bowling changes. When you have a season like that, you are not sure of your combination. You want to try out so many things. The conditions are different. The ball tends to grip here, the pitches are flat in the other venues. We try and field the best combination, it hasn’t worked for eight games,” said Rohit Sharma during the post-match presentation.

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