{"id":155373,"date":"2026-04-16T08:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=155373"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:40:47","slug":"mi-vs-pbks-ipl-2026-why-is-rohit-sharma-not-playing-for-mumbai-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=155373","title":{"rendered":"MI vs PBKS, IPL 2026: Why is Rohit Sharma not playing for Mumbai Indians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70869595\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">Rohit Sharma will miss Mumbai Indians\u2019 IPL 2026 clash against Punjab Kings at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on Thursday, April 16.<\/p>\n<p>Rohit misses the match with a hamstring injury that forced him to retire hurt in Mumbai Indians\u2019 last outing against Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe medical staff is assessing him&#8230; An official update will be given when available,\u201d said MI batter Naman Dhir in the pre-match press conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Rohit reportedly underwent scans after the game and had skipped training on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>His place at the top of the order is expected to be taken by Quinton de Kock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Apr 16, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/mi-vs-pbks-ipl-2026-why-is-rohit-sharma-not-playing-hamstring-injury-latest-news\/article70869595.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rohit Sharma will miss Mumbai Indians\u2019 IPL 2026 clash against Punjab Kings at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on Thursday, April 16. Rohit misses the match with a hamstring injury that forced him to retire hurt in Mumbai Indians\u2019 last outing against Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Sunday. \u201cThe medical staff is assessing him&#8230; An official update&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PTI04_15_2026_000544B.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-Eq1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/155374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}