IPL 2017: MI vs RPS, 5 things that went wrong for Mumbai Indians

#3 Karn Sharma batting at number 5

Parthiv Patel’s dismissal surprisingly brought Karn Sharma to the crease

After Parthiv Patel was dismissed in the 9^th over, everyone was expecting either Kieron Pollard or Hardik Pandya to walk out. But to everyone’s surprise, the leg-spinner was seen walking out to bat.

The move turned out to be a howler as the left-hander scored only 11 runs off 10 balls and couldn’t play the role of a pinch hitter that he was expected to. That put extra pressure on the batsmen that followed as the required run rate just kept creeping up.

Pollard and Pandya have been in great forms and the order of the day would have been to send one of those earlier but the decision to promote Karn left MI rue it.