HAZARE TROPHY | A Rohit special dazzles Sikkim and the spectators

Rohit Sharma came, won hearts and yet scored a period to usher Mumbai to a eight-wicket triumph against Sikkim successful a Group C fixture of the Vijay Hazare Trophy.

With much than 20,000 spectators cheering for Rohit astatine the Sawai Mansingh Stadium present connected Wednesday, helium entertained them with a scintillating 94-ball-155 (18x4, 9x6), taking the young and inexperienced Sikkim bowlers to the cleaners, portion chasing down 237.

On a level deck, Rohit acceptable the code with a well-timed changeable implicit screen disconnected seamer Kranthi Kumar — helium yet deed 7 fours disconnected the bowler — and followed it up with a trademark swivel-pull implicit the backward square-leg obstruction for a six.

While the assemblage lapped it each up, Rohit capitalised connected a mates of reprieves to bring up his 50 successful conscionable 28 balls and added 141 for the opening concern with Angkrish Ranguvanshi.

The second held fort astatine 1 end, earlier being trapped limb earlier by Ankur. By then, Mumbai was already marching towards triumph and dealing successful fours and sixes.

Rohit raced to his 37th List A period successful conscionable 62 balls, and added different 55 runs successful 32 deliveries to usher Mumbai location successful conscionable 30.3 overs.

Musheer Khan, too, chipped successful with an unbeaten 26-ball-27 to adhd 85 runs for the 2nd wicket, which ensured that Mumbai did not fto it gaffe aft a coagulated start.

Earlier Ashish’s Thapa’s 87-ball-79 guided Sikkim to 236 for six giving its bowlers thing to enactment with. But with Rohit starring from the front, nary of their plans worked.

In what Sikkim skipper Lee Yong Lepcha termed arsenic the ‘biggest lucifer of their careers’, the batters managed to tackle the aboriginal conditions and enactment up a competitory full against a formidable Mumbai bowling line-up.

But eventually, it was a Rohit amusement each through.