ICC World Cup 2023: It’s over to hometown hero Rohit Sharma!
Updated On: 02 November, 2023 08:38 AM IST | Mumbai | R Kaushik
In-form India skipper, who has upped his game several notches, will headline a strong Mumbai presence that includes batsmen Shreyas Iyer and Suryakumar Yadav against Sri Lanka at the Wankhede Stadium today
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Rohit Sharma is all concentrattion during practice at the Wankhede yesterday. Pic/Satej Shinde
On the face of it, this is an unequal battle between former champions. At one end of the spectrum is the home side, unbeaten after six games and with a foot-and-a-half in the semi-finals. At the other is an embattled outfit riddled with injuries and occupying the seventh slot, its chances of advancing beyond the first phase hanging by the most tenuous of threads. But games of cricket aren’t played on paper. On the brink of elimination, Sri Lanka are guaranteed to come hard at Rohit Sharma’s unit, who are riding the crest of a wave despite temporarily losing their talismanic all-rounder, Hardik Pandya, to injury.
Intriguing subplot
That the two teams contested the 2011 World Cup final at the same Wankhede Stadium offers an intriguing subplot, even if no member of this Sri Lankan 15 was a part of that match which went the way of Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s intrepid band.
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