IPL 2016: Mumbai Indians may reevaluate playing two remote seamers in new 'home', demonstrates Rohit Sharma

Mumbai Indians may reevaluate playing two remote seamers in new 'home', demonstrates Rohit Sharma

The Mumbai Indians have taken after the hypothesis of playing with two abroad crease bowlers throughout recent years. It has worked in a larger part of the matches, particularly in their stronghold, Wankhede Stadium. 

In any case, the same can't be said of them in the two matches that Mumbai Indians have played on the slower pitches of Visakhapatnam, losing to Sunrisers Hyderabad last Sunday by 85 runs and to Kings XI Punjab by seven wickets on Friday night. Against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Southee went for 0/35 and McClenaghan, 1/38 in their four overs while against KXIP, they went for 1/22 and 2/24, individually.

Sharma denied that the group was intensely subject to him to set up keeps running on the board. "We have great three or four household players, who have scored reliably in the course of the last couple of years in local cricket. We have two outside players in Pollard and Buttler. We stayed with Parthiv Patel for quite a while, yet he was not having a decent keep running with the bat (He was dropped and was supplanted by Unmukt Chand against KXIP). We needed to roll out that improvement. All these did not come great with the bat. Nitish Rana has played just two recreations and it is too soon to discuss him. 

"(Ambati) Rayudu has been reliably scoring 30s and 40s. I don't think it is a lot on me. Kieron Pollard and Jos Buttler have completed matches pursuing, as they did against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Whoever is playing needs to assume that liability and go out and perform. I don't think the entire weight and run scoring is on me. We have won without me scoring too. The entire batting squad needs to trust that whatever happens, they will pull off a win. It is as basic as that." 

As they did in Mohali, where in spite of Sharma succumbing to nothing, Mumbai Indians went ahead to win, the main occurrence of them winning while batting first this IPL.