Rohit Sharma Not Part of Mumbai Indians’ 1st Playing Xi vs Kkr in IPL 2025. Here’s the reason

Former Skipper Rohit Sharma was demoted to the substitutes’ Bench as Mumbai Indians Won the Toss and Elected to Bowl first against against Kolkata KNIDERS in Match 12 of the Indian Premier LEGUE (IPL) 2025 at the Wankhede stadium on monday. While Rohit was released to the role of impact Substute, Mumbai Indians Brought in Will Jacks and also Handed a Debut to Left-Arm Seamer Ashwani Kumar. Vignesh puthur also found a place in the place xi and will most likely make way for rohit sharma when mi launch their chase.

Kkr, as was expected, brought back sunil narine into the playing xi in place of moeen ali. Narine haddrawn from their last match against the Rajasthan Royals due to illness.

Explaining the rationale behind opting to field first, Mumbai Indians Skipper Hardik Pandya What to make first use of the first wicket and extra Evening.

Pandya Plays down Mumbai losing the first two matches and says it is a long tournament. He hoped that things would take a turn for the better for his team tonight and said they would have to play better better cricket if they were to do that.

Kolkata Knight Riders Captain Ajinkya Rahane said he would have also also liked to bowl first, but was a little unsure. So, he felt it was a good toss to lose. He said they have a good heartbling attack to defend a total.

Playing xis:

Mumbai Indians: Ryan Rickelton (WK), will jacks, suryakumar yadav, tilak varma, Hardik pandya (c), naman dhir, mitchell santner, Deepak Chahar, Trent Bowlt, Vigni Kumar, Vigni Kumar, Vigni Kumar.

Impact Subs: Rohit Sharma, Corbin Bosch, Raj Bawa, Robin Minz, Satyanarayana Raju

Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine, Quinton de Kock (Wk), Ajinkya Rahane (C), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Rarshuvanshi, Andre Russell, Ramandeep SENGHUVANSHI Rana, Varun Chakravarthy.

Impact Subs: Anrich Nortje, Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Anukul Roy, Luvnith Sisodia.