MI vs LSG: Rohit Sharma Ends Month-long Wait for Fifty, Reaches Milestone with a Mighty Hit - WATCH

Mumbai Indians star batter Rohit Sharma produced a splendid half-century against Lucknow Super Giants in front of his adoring fans at the fabled Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Friday in the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League.

Rohit’s previous big knock was his unbeaten ton against Chennai Super Kings at the same stadium just over a month ago, on the 14th of April.

The batter has found runs hard to come by with a string of low-scoring performances in the T20 extravaganza. However, the opener put the testing patch behind him with a brilliant knock at the Wankhede in MI’s last fixture of the season.

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Mumbai Indians won the toss and skipper Hardik Pandya opted to bowl first as the hosts got off to a good start with seamer Nuwan Thushara scalping Devdutt Padikkal for a duck early in the innings.

LSG found runs hard to come by in the initial phase of the innings as Marcus Stoinis and Deepak Hooda were removed for 28 and 11 runs respectively by Piyush Chawla.

However, Windies maverick Nicholas Pooran came out to bat and took on the MI bowlers with his whirlwind 29-ball-75-run knock that included five 4s and eight 6s.

KL Rahul’s measured 55-run contribution and Ayush Badoni’s quickfire 22-run knock helped Lucknow put up a total of 214 runs for the loss of 6 wickets at the end of 20 overs as Thushara and Chawla finished with a three-fer each.

Mumbai got the chase off to a bright start as Rohti and Dewald Brevis opened the innings before rain halted play briefly. But, the Indian skipper did not let the pause drain his momentum and went on to notch up his half-century as play resumed.

The 37-year-old brought up his milestone score with a brilliant six over the top to send the Wankhede into a state of delirium.

Rohit, who added 68 runs on the day, was sent back to the hut by Ravi Bishnoi after MI lost the wickets of Brevis and Suryakumar Yadav in quick succession.