IPL: When Rohit Sharma took a hat-trick against his own team, Mumbai Indians were shaken by Hitman’s bowling

New Delhi: Rohit Sharma is counted among the most successful captains in the Indian Premier League. Under Rohit’s captaincy, the Mumbai Indians team has won the IPL title five times. Although Rohit has made a lot of noise not only in his captaincy but also in the game. Rohit Sharma is one of the few batsmen in this league who has scored more than five thousand runs, but very few people know that apart from his batting, Rohit has also rocked the IPL as a bowler. Rohit also used to bowl brilliantly. The biggest proof of this is the hat-trick taken by him in 2009. The special thing is that the team against which Rohit took the first IPL hat-trick of his career, he has now made the same team the champion five times under his captaincy. Yes, this hat-trick of Rohit was also against his current team Mumbai Indians. In his hat-trick, Rohit took the wickets of Abhishek Nair, Harbhajan Singh and JP Duminy.

Rohit Sharma used to play for Deccan Chargers

There are many tales and stories about IPL 2009. Rohit Sharma’s hat-trick is one of them. IPL 2009 was organized in South Africa. On 6 May 2009, the match between Deccan Chargers and Mumbai Indians was played at Centurion. At that time the captain of Deccan Chargers was Adam Gilchrist. Batting first in the match, Deccan’s team could score only 145 runs for 6 wickets. In batting, Rohit contributed 38 runs in 36 balls for his team.

Now it was the turn of bowling. The team of Mumbai Indians who came out to chase the target was also seen struggling. Although JP Duminy had set his foot at the crease. The team’s score had reached 100 for 4 wickets in 15 overs. Now in the last 30 Mumbai had to score 46 runs to win which was not difficult. Meanwhile, captain Adam Gilchrist handed over the 16th over to Rohit Sharma.

Rohit became man of the match

Off-spinner Rohit made a modest start to the over. Rohit spent only 2 runs in the first four balls, but as soon as he bowled the fifth ball, Abhishek Nair got caught in his spin. After this Harbhajan Singh came to bat. Before Harbhajan could understand anything, Rohit made him walk on the sixth ball as well. The Mumbai team was under pressure after taking 2 wickets for just 2 runs in the 16th over.

Deccan Chargers started tightening their grip on the match. After the 17th over, Rohit came to bowl once. Duminy was about to face the first ball of the 18th over. Duminy was playing on 48 when Rohit became the victim on the first ball of the 18th over. What then was Rohit Sharma’s hat-trick completed and Mumbai’s last hope in the form of Duminy also ended. After the hat-trick, Rohit made Sourav Tiwari walk too.

In this way, the team of Deccan Chargers defeated Mumbai Indians by 19 runs in a low-scoring match with the brilliant bowling of Rohit Sharma Sharma. Rohit Sharma bowled only two overs in this match in which he took four wickets for six runs. He was adjudged man of the match for this powerful game.

Father used to beat him with belt for playing cricket, today this player is life of Delhi Capitals
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