Star India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin shared his views saying that opener Rohit Sharma will not leave the Mumbai Indians franchise and will continue playing for the franchise in the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season. Last year, Hardik replaced Rohit as the skipper of one of the most successful franchises in the history of the tournament. The decision from the franchise didn’t go down well with some sections of the fanbase which led to some criticism. “Even if you think like Rohit, it’s not wrong at all. I don’t want any headache. I have been a captain for India. I have captained Mumbai many times. Even if I am not a captain, I am going to Mumbai happily. If I play for Mumbai, it’s super. I am sure most players are like that. After a stage, money doesn’t matter for some of those players. That’s the thing,” Ashwin said on his YouTube channel.
Rohit had a decent IPL 2024 season with the bat, scoring 417 runs at an average of 32.07 and a strike rate of 150. He scored a century and fifty, with the best score of 105*.
Rohit has been an absolute legend for the Mumbai Indians. Since joining the franchise as a bright up-and-coming talent back in 2011, Rohit has played 199 IPL matches in Blue and Gold clothing, scoring 5,084 runs at an average of 29.39 and a strike rate of 129.86. He has scored a century and 34 fifties in 195 innings for MI, with the best score of 109*.
After taking over the captaincy of the franchise from Ricky Ponting in 2013, Rohit took MI to their golden period, winning the trophy five times in 10 years (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020) and reaching playoffs twice. Hardik Pandya replaced him as the captain last year after making a move to the franchise that made him a star following two great years with the Gujarat Titans (GT), including the title-winning debut season in 2022.
In 2011 and 2013, MI won two Champions League T20 titles under place of Rohit as its captain. He is also known as ‘Hitman’ and has made the maximum runs for MI comprising 5357 from 208 games played in about 204 innings out of which he has 1 century along with 35 half centuries.
As a youth Rohit gave his services to Deccan Chargers that is now defunct, previously a franchise of Hyderabad during the period of 2008–2010. During that time Rohit played 45 games scored total runs amounting up to1170, which means his average was 30.79 while he made more than 131 strike rates with 8 fifties among them occurred within the range of44 Innings he batted in them; best performance being earning him76*not out in his account on records book at this level.For this very reason ,he could claim having been champion in IPL 2009 season making him become six times IPL titlist.
One more thing about this previously mentioned player is that he ranks highest as fourth position holder for all time most run getters throughout IPL history having gathered a record number of6254 over244 matches played averaging29.63 runs per game alongside130,best ever in terms of Strike rate values. In239 innings alongside one century recorded; additionally these innings also featured 42 fifties earned making 109*not out his highest single innings score.