Sikkim captain Leyong Lepcha mentioned that it was a dream, come true for him in addition to his workforce to play the Vijay Hazare Trophy match towards Rohit Sharma. Rohit, representing Mumbai, slammed a blistering 155 off simply 94 balls as he guided his workforce to an 8-wicket win at Jaipur on Wednesday.
“It was an awesome expertise. We performed fairly nicely whereas batting first. And it was an awesome expertise to observe this nice man from this shut up. I assume he was ready for the unfastened balls. In the course of the course of the sport, I assumed he revered the nice balls and he capitalised on the unfastened balls. The scoring charge and the strike charge may be very excessive when all these worldwide gamers play. It was a deal with watching him from so shut and it was an honour,” Lepcha mentioned to PTI after the match.
“Properly completely. To be in the identical floor and taking part in the identical match with a World Cup successful captain. It’s a dream come true for all the fellows in Sikkim. Didn’t get an opportunity to talk to him as a result of he’s all the time surrounded by safety. As you understand, he’s a really huge participant so I hope we get an opportunity to fulfill him after the match. I had a couple of chit chats with him when he was batting,” he added.
VIDEO | Jaipur: “Going through Rohit Sharma was a dream come true for all of us,” says Sikkim captain Leyong Lepcha after their match towards Mumbai within the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025–26.
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Setting to gun down Sikkim’s 236-run whole in Jaipur, Rohit sped off the blocks with a gradual circulation of sixes and fours and made mild work of the problem. Closing in on 14,000 runs within the 50-over format, the century was Rohit’s thirty seventh ton in Listing A cricket, his fourth in addition to the 33 centuries in worldwide colors for India.
The century can also be his quickest within the format, bettering the 63-ball hundred towards Afghanistan on the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi through the 2023 ODI World Cup.