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IPL 2024: Hardik Pandya walks away as Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah argue.© Twitter
After any loss, it is a difficult time for any team. The same goes for Mumbai Indians, who started their journey under new captain Hardik Pandya on a losing note. The five-time champions lost to the Gujarat Titans, who were Pandya’s former franchise, on Sunday. From the time he was named captain replacing Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya has been under intense scrutiny. He himself must have felt her eyes following him a little more than in previous years.
After Mumbai Indians’ loss to Gujarat Titans, the internet has been in overdrive. A video has gone viral on social media and shows Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah discussing something. After Pandya walks away, Rohit and Bumrah continue chatting. This has led to intense speculation.
Meanwhile, Mumbai Indians batting coach Kieron Pollard backed Hardik Pandya’s decision to open the bowling instead of Jasprit Bumrah and also said that the captain who batted at number seven in his first IPL match against the Gujarat Titans was a “collective decision”.
An inexplicable batting strategy saw MI lose their opener by six runs here on Sunday after they looked headed for victory.
Mumbai Indians won the toss and opted to bowl first and surprisingly, Hardik opened the bowling against his former team.
“They have to plan and decide what they want to do as a team. Hardik (Pandya) has also bowled with the new ball for Gujarat in the last few years. He spun the new ball and bowled it well, which was nothing new . for us.
“We tried to take advantage of the new ball. When I look at the decision made, there is nothing wrong with it and we moved on,” Pollard said in the post-match press conference.
When the discussion turned to the logic behind Hardik coming into bat at number seven, Pollard said the decision cannot be attributed to the captain.
“There is no decision made on full autonomy, so we can’t say it’s their decision. As a team, we have plans; we talk about setting entry points for batsmen. The top order batted deep into the game, and We also had two power hitters to go on the back end.
“Usually if you look at it over time, Tim (David) has finished games for us and Hardik has done that over the years.
“So at any time, any of them can resurrect the situation. It didn’t happen tonight, so there will probably be a conversation about who should have gone sooner.
“But all those things are in hindsight and as a team we make decisions, so let’s stop saying ‘Hardik made a decision, Hardik did this, Hardik did that’. We are a team. We make decisions collectively as one,” he said. Antillean.
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