During the Indian Premier League 2022 match between Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders, one of the bigger talking points had to be the seemingly unending IPL struggles for the Team India captain, Rohit Sharma.

Having faced just 12 balls, Sharma had to walk back to the dressing room after the in-form pacer Umesh Yadav tricked the MI skipper with a short ball around off. Sharma went for the bait and tried playing his ever-favourite pull. 

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However, instead of connecting with the middle of the bat, the ball nicked a top-edge and went straight into the gloves of Sam Billings, the KKR wicketkeeper, who made no mistake securing the catch.

In the three matches that Sharma has played for Mumbai Indians so far, the skipper has managed to put up just 54 runs as their opener. 41 of those runs came from his knock against Rishabh Pant’s Delhi Capitals in the first match of the season.

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Worried about the Hitman and his struggling form, a lot of viewers of Indian cricket believe that Sharma should simply follow what Virat Kohli did following the 2021 season of the tournament when he decided to give up his captaincy in order to simply focus on becoming a better batter without taking stress about off the field bureaucracy.

And even though Kohli has not looked like his younger self in the first three matches that he has played for the Bengaluru squad so far in the 2022 season, fans and experts have noticed that he is a lot calmer and stress-free and seems to be enjoying himself a lot more than he was for the past few years. Rohit Sharma fans believe that even he could use some time off the leadership responsibilities.

Think Rohit Sharma should hand over his captaincy to SKY immediately and play freely as a player…Got too much on his plate to handle… if you want his best let him be a free man

— Samip Rajguru (@samiprajguru) April 6, 2022

Amid such discussions catching fire on Twitter, Suryakumar’s action-packed return to the tournament against Kolkata had people talking about how he should be Sharma’s successor as the MI skipper, especially because of the number of times he has put the franchise on his shoulder and won matches practically on his own.

He can't handle pressure of intl. As well as IPL

— Hariom Gujjar (@hariomgujjar_) April 6, 2022

Good to see there is someone who has courage to speak the truth..
& Other one who speaks d truth is @SushantNMehta ..
But some people just r spreading agendas..@vikrantgupta73

— G oat (@viratgrt18) April 6, 2022

Totally agree with you. Some player excel with pressure like Virat Kohli and some fail with extra pressure like Rohit Sharma.

— Elton (@elton_vr1) April 6, 2022

As a player he is already finished in 2016.

— Balu (@escn__) April 6, 2022

However, not everyone was in agreement with the notion of Rohit Sharma stepping down as the MI captain, especially because he has led the franchise to the most number of championship wins in the history of the tournament (5) while also holding the most number of individual championships (6).

If he can handle pressure on the biggest stage of the ipl and get mi it's 5th ipl title , I'm sure he can handle that "captaincy pressure" to win MI more titles in the future as well pic.twitter.com/pzddv7eAML

— NAMAN_45 (@EashZen) April 6, 2022

Take This Ratio From pic.twitter.com/RrvAhZwuDH

— Shailendra Mishra (@imShail_3) April 6, 2022

Kaha se aate yeh log
Rohit has won 5 trophies and he is indian captain...

— Meethi Mirchi KKR (@cold_toffee) April 6, 2022

Cool down guys....Now haters are in their prime form

And when Rohit's form will back their prime form ( hate) will cool down and they will disappear...this guy is amazing them

— Soumyajit Rout (@Soum2Rout) April 6, 2022

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