IPL 2023: How Rohit Sharma became the captain of Mumbai Indians? The story of Anil Kumble

Anil Kumble On Rohit Sharma IPL 2023: Rohit Sharma has been the most successful captain in the IPL so far. Under the leadership of Rohit Sharma, Mumbai Indians won a total of 5 IPL. Rohit Sharma has been in charge of Mumbai since 2013. But do you know why and how Rohit Sharma was made the captain of Mumbai Indians?

Former Indian player Anil Kumble has made an interesting disclosure about this. He has told how Rohit Sharma became the captain of the Mumbai Indians franchise.

Anil Kumble was the mentor of Mumbai Indians in 2013. Before this he played for Royal Challengers Bangalore for 3 years. John Wright was the head coach of Mumbai Indians at that time. Anil Kumble tells this interesting story on Jio Cinema. He said, “We lost 4-5 matches in IPL 2013. John Wright and I asked Rohit Sharma, do you want to captain Mumbai Indians? Reacting to this, Rohit said that he is ready to take charge of the team.

“After that we never looked back. He is brilliant as a captain and has won the most IPL so far.

Before Rohit Sharma, Ricky Ponting was leading the team. But the team was not performing well under his captaincy. So the captain of the team was changed.

Rohit Sharma has been a part of Mumbai Indians since 2011

Interestingly, Rohit Sharma has been a part of Mumbai Indians as a player since 2011, 2 years before his captaincy. Rohit Sharma has played a total of 227 matches in his IPL career so far, in which he has scored 5879 runs. In this he has scored 1 century and 40 fifties.