Mumbai Indians (MI) head coach Mark Boucher has confirmed that Rohit Sharma will lead MI in their IPL 2023 opener against the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) on Sunday (April 2). Earlier, it was reported that Rohit Sharma may miss the match against RCB due to poor health.
“Yes, Rohit is fit. He has trained the last two days and is 100 per cent ready to go. I think he didn’t feel particularly well that morning and just as a precaution, we told him to stay at home,” Boucher said at the pre-match press conference.
“There are a lot of photo shoots the boys have had to do. He’s not had a lot of time to himself so we thought it was better,” he added.
Mumbai Indians will reply a lot on England pacer Jofra Archer to lead the pace attack in the absence of their star player Jasprit Bumrah.
“Jofra is good, he is 100 per cent ready for tomorrow. He didn’t train today, it was an optional training session. He felt that he was ready to put the spikes on tomorrow. We are very happy with his progression since he has been with us. He’ll be playing tomorrow,” Boucher said about Archer.
It may be recalled that Mumbai Indians ended at 10th place in IPL 2022 but Boucher is not interested in talking about last season’s dismal shiw.
“I can’t comment too much about last year I wasn’t there. But we have spoken about it, some new talents in the team, new energy, some guys who have done really well in the previous IPLs.”They understand that last year we didn’t have a good season but things can change very quickly, energies have been good, we are in a good space. If we get off to good start great, if we don’t we’ll definitely not panic. The IPL is not won in April or March, it’s won in May. Hopefully, we can get a good start and get some momentum,” Boucher remarked.
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