Will Rohit Sharma play today for Mumbai Indians vs LSG?

NEW DELHI: The 2 bottom-placed teams - Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants - volition look disconnected successful an IPL 2026 clash astatine the Wankhede Stadium connected Monday. With their playoff hopes hanging by a thread, some sides are hopeless to crook things astir and displacement into apical gear.Mumbai Indians, presently ninth connected the table, person managed conscionable 2 wins from 9 matches. They caput into the crippled aft 3 consecutive defeats, including a dense eight-wicket nonaccomplishment to Chennai Super Kings.LSG, placed astatine the bottom, besides person 2 wins but from 8 matches. They are struggling with 5 consecutive losses, the latest being a Super Over decision to Kolkata Knight Riders.Mumbai’s run has been deed by inconsistent performances from cardinal players specified arsenic Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma and skipper Hardik Pandya, whose enactment has besides travel nether scrutiny.

The lack of Rohit Sharma owed to a hamstring wounded has further weakened the side, leaving them with small borderline for error. Mumbai would ideally privation Rohit backmost astatine the apical of the order, but his availability for this important clash remains uncertain.

Will Rohit Sharma play against Lucknow Super Giants today?

Mumbai Indians person not provided immoderate authoritative update connected Rohit’s return. The erstwhile skipper, who led the franchise to 5 IPL titles (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020), has not played since suffering a hamstring wounded astir 3 weeks agone during a lucifer against Royal Challengers Bengaluru.

Rohit retired wounded connected 19 successful that crippled and has since missed matches against Punjab Kings, Gujarat Titans and Chennai Super Kings.However, Rohit was seen batting successful the nets up of the LSG clash successful a video shared by Mumbai IndiansSquads:Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya (c), Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Robin Minz, Ryan Rickelton (wk), Shrijith Krishnan (wk), Bevon Jacobs, Tilak Varma, Naman Dhir, Will Jacks, Keshav Maharaj, Raj Angad Bawa, Vignesh Puthur, Corbin Bosch, Trent Boult, Karn Sharma, Deepak Chahar, Ashwani Kumar, Reece Topley, VS Penmetsa, Arjun Tendulkar, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Jasprit Bumrah.Lucknow Super Giants: Rishabh Pant (c & wk), Aiden Markram, Himmat Singh, Matthew Breetzke, Mukul Choudhary, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Josh Inglis, Mitchell Marsh, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahamad, Arshin Kulkarni, Wanindu Hasaranga, Ayush Badoni, Mohammad Shami, Avesh Khan, M. Siddharth, Digvesh Singh, Akash Singh, Prince Yadav, Arjun Tendulkar, Anrich Nortje, Naman Tiwari, Mayank Yadav and Mohsin Khan