‘He’s bought extra grey hair since taking up captaincy’: Mahela Jayawardene to Rohit Sharma

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After his wonderful begin with India as an all-format captain, Rohit Sharma has turned his concentrate on the 2022 Indian Premier League (IPL). Rohit Sharma-led Mumbai Indians (MI) have received the IPL title 5 occasions. On Tuesday, Rohit Sharma met Mumbai Indians teaching and assist employees forward of the IPL 2022 and was caught off-guard by the franchise coach Mahela Jayawardene.

“He’s got more gray hair since taking over the captaincy,” Jayawardene could be heard in a video posted by the Mumbai Indians on Twitter.

After a mediocre present within the T20 World Cup final 12 months, Rohit Sharma was appointed as India’s white-ball captain. Rohit was given the Test captaincy when Virat Kohli stepped down after a 1-2 sequence loss towards South Africa.

Rohit’s period has tarted quote brightly with India successful the house sequence comprehensively towards Sri Lanka. India defeated Sri Lanka 3-0 within the T20I sequence and 2-0 within the Tests.

Rohit has now led India to 16 wins in 17 matches at residence in T20 Internationals, surpassing England’s Eoin Morgan and New Zealand’s Kane Williamson on the panel. Overall, Rohit has 22 wins in 24 matches as T20I captain in his profession. The win towards Sri Lanka additionally assured India their eleventh successive win underneath his management. It was additionally a 3rd consecutive sequence victory for Rohit since develop into a full-time captain of the T20 format again in November 2021.
Rohit Sharma’s Mumbai Indians will begin their quest for the sixth title towards Delhi Capitals on March 27 on the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.

A complete variety of 70 league matches and 4 playoff video games will likely be performed within the period of 65 days.

Season 15 begins on March 26 on the Wankhede stadium the place Chennai Super Kings tackle Kolkata Knight Riders.

20 matches every will likely be held at Wankhede Stadium & DY Patil Stadium, 15 matches every at Brabourne and MCA International Stadium, Pune.

There will likely be 12 doubleheaders in whole with the primary match beginning at 3:30 PM IST. All night matches will begin at 7:30 PM IST.

The schedule for the Playoffs and the IPL closing which is scheduled to be performed on May 29 will likely be introduced later.

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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS

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