New Delhi, April 21 -- Rohit Sharma returned to form in the Indian Premier League as the Mumbai Indians veteran slammed an aggressive half century against the Chennai Super Kings on Sunday.

Team India's captain smashed an unbeaten 76 (45) as MI ran out 9-wicket winners against an embattled CSK at the Wankhede Stadium on April 20.

Hitman, as he is fondly known, has credited Abhishek Nayar for his return to form and shared a two-word message of support to the latter on Instagram.

Sharma put up a story and captioned it "Thanks bro" and tagged Nayar, who had been recently sacked by the Board of Control of Cricket in India for team India's poor show in the Border Gavaskar Trophy series in Australia, earlier this year.

Nayar was with the In...