NEW DELHI: Five-time champions registered their first victory after losing three matches in IPL 2024 with a 29-run win against Delhi Capitals at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.
Romario Shepherd smashed a 10-ball 39, Tim David scored a 21-ball 45, Ishan Kishan hit a 23-ball 42 and captain Hardik Pandya contributed with a 33-ball 39.
But it was former captain Rohit Sharma who top scored for the team with a 27-ball 49 as MI scored 234/5.
Rohit hit 3 sixes and 6 fours in his knock and sure enough his contribution was acknowledged in the MI dressing room after the match.
A video shared by MI on X shows their head coach Mark Boucher announcing an award for “senior statesman” Rohit for his knock as his teammates clap and cheer.

After receiving the award, Rohit said, “I thought it was a wonderful batting performance. It’s something that we all have been striving for from game one. Goes to show that, individual performances don’t matter if the whole batting group can stand up and put their hand up and take a look at the team’s goal, we can achieve that kind of a total. So, I think you know there is something that we have been talking about for a long-long time and it is something that the batting coach Mark (Boucher) and the captain wants. So it is wonderful to see that and like you said that may continue.”
MI’s total was their third highest in IPL history and their top-most at the Wankhede. It was also the highest team total in T20s where no player scored a fifty.