MI Star Rohit Sharma To Replace Shikhar Dhawan At PBKS? Team's Latest Social Media Post Adds Fuel To Fire

MI Legend Rohit Sharma To Play For PBKS? Franchise's latest social media post has now attracted more eyeballs after initial interest shown by a team official in roping in Rohit.

MI Legend Rohit Sharma To Play For PBKS? Punjab Kings could be looking at a captaincy candidate with Shikhar Dhawan having announced his returement.

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MI Legend Rohit Sharma To Play For PBKS? While it is being speculated that Rohit Sharma will be released by Mumbai Indians (MI) ahead of IPL 2025 ever since it was certain that he would be forced to play only as a player for MI in IPL 2024 following the team management's decision to replace him with Hardik Pandya as the captain, Punjab Kings (PBKS) are one team that have shown interest in roping him in, should his name come up in the mega-auction.

Initially it was a statement by PBKS Head of Cricket Development Sanjay Bangar which suggested that the team might be willing to go after Rohit and now a latest social media post from PBKS has added fuel to the fire. With Shikhar Dhawan having already announced his retirment from international and domestic cricket, including the captain, they would be in search of a captain too and who better than Rohit Sharma, India's T20 World Cup-winning captain to take up the job.

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"Monday check: Uniforms crisp, Rohit and Dhawan ready to ace it, " PBKS captioned a picture of Dhawan and Rohit from their early playing career.

Take a look at the post here:

 

Monday check: Uniforms crisp, Rohit and Dhawan ready to ace it! 👌#RohitSharma #ShikharDhawan #School pic.twitter.com/4ubQ8TNbzf

— Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL) August 26, 2024

What Did Sanjay Bangar Say When Asked If PBKS Would Target Rohit Sharma?

Notably, Bangar, while speaking at a podcast had hinted at going after Rohit in the auction if they have the money in their pocket when and if his name comes up in the auction.

"It all depends whether we have money in our pockets or not because if Rohit (Sharma) comes into the auction, I certainly believe that he is going to go at a very high price," Sanjay Bangar, who is the Head of Cricket Development at PBKS, said in an episode of the Roy podcast Youtube channel.