Indian team’s legendary batsmen Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli came to play in Vijay Hazare Trophy after a long time. Rohit scored 155 runs against Sikkim at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium in Jaipur, while Kohli scored 131 runs against Andhra at the BCCI Center of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru. There was no entry of fans in CoE, due to which they could not watch Kohli’s batting.
Thousands of spectators had reached Sawai Man Singh Stadium to watch Rohit Sharma’s batting. During Rohit’s batting, many times fans tried to break the security cordon and meet him. A fan even tried to kiss him after reaching the pitch. After the match, a small fan suddenly approached Rohit. He was wearing a jersey with Virat Kohli’s name on it. The little fan went near Rohit and touched his feet. Rohit lovingly stopped her and caressed her while patting her back, the video of which is going viral on social media.
Sikkim faced a weak challenge from Mumbai in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, the List-A tournament of Indian domestic cricket. Sikkim won the toss and batted first and scored 236 runs at the loss of 7 wickets. Ashish Thapa scored the highest score of 79 runs. For Mumbai, captain Shardul Thakur took 2 wickets for 19 runs in 6 overs. Sikkim batted the entire 50 overs but could not give a big target to Mumbai.
Rohit Sharma made the match one-sided and scored 155 runs in 94 balls, hitting 18 fours and 8 sixes. He was caught behind the wicket by Kranti Kumar. When he was out, Mumbai was just 11 runs away from victory. Both brothers Musheer Khan (27 not out) and Sarfaraz Khan (8 not out) together took Mumbai to the target easily. Mumbai team will play its next match against Uttarakhand in Jaipur on Friday.
