The Mumbai Indians (MI) faced off against Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the 24th match of the IPL 2021 in Delhi. The match is crucial for both teams as MI is coming off a loss, while RR won their last game and wants to continue the momentum.
Rohit Sharma, the MI captain won the toss and chose to bowl first. While Sanju Samson’s RR was unchanged for this match, Rohit Sharma dropped a bombshell, as he announced that Nathan Coulter-Nile was included in the team and as a surprise, Ishan Kishan made way for the Australian pacer.
The Twitterverse was outraged as Ishan Kishan was dropped to make way for Nathan Coulter-Nile. Kishan might not have set the IPL 2021 on fire, but he was their highest run-getter in IPL 2020, which MI won and hit the most sixes in the tournament- 30.
This performance led to Ishan Kishan debuting for India in the T20I series against England and slammed a fifty in his first outing in India colors.
In IPL 2021, he has scores of 28, 1, 12, 26, and 6 thus far, but looked in good touch even in those knocks.
Many had expected Krunal Pandya to make way for another player, as he has picked only three wickets in five matches and has the highest score of 15. He has been expensive with the ball and ineffective with the bat.
But the decision of dropping Ishan Kishan outraged the cricket fans on Twitter, who took out their angst on Mumbai Indians with heated tweets.
Here are some:
