Delhi: In the current season of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2024), Mumbai Indians (MI) have entered the field with some major changes. MI handed over the captaincy of the team to Hardik Pandya in place of Rohit Sharma, but Hardik's first season as the captain of Mumbai has been very bad. In such a situation, a big news is coming out that the internal dispute of Mumbai Indians has now come to the fore. Some senior players of Mumbai have raised questions on Hardik's performance. Players told the team management that Hardik's leadership style was the reason for the 'unbridled' situation in the dressing room of Mumbai Indians. Indian Express has given news about this. From this it has become clear that everything is not well in the MI team.
According to the Indian Express report, a Mumbai Indians official said that this is not a leadership crisis, but the team, which has been accustomed to Rohit's captaincy for the last 10 years, is taking time to adapt to the style of the new captain. An official also said that like every year, the franchise will review the season and, if necessary, take a decision on the future of the team.
Who complained about Hardik?
Players and coaching staff met after a match in Mumbai. It included senior players like Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah. These players presented the reasons for the team's poor performance to the coaching staff. After this meeting, separate discussions were held with senior players. It has been said in the news that similar things have come to light there also.
Meanwhile, the performance of Mumbai Indians in this year's IPL has been very poor. The team captained by Hardik Pandya is at ninth position in the points table. Till now Mumbai has played a total of 12 matches. Won 4 matches and lost 8 matches. 5-time IPL champion Mumbai could not perform well this year. The reason for Mumbai's defeat is being said to be the poor captaincy of Hardik Pandya. His team is out of the playoff race. Before this, Pandya had captained Gujarat Titans (GT) for 2 seasons and had taken the team to the finals both times. He was also successful in making the team champion once.
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Mumbai Indians is the first team to be out of the playoff race in IPL 2024. At the same time, this is the second time in the history of IPL that Mumbai Indians have been out of the playoff race for the first time. With this, Hardik has become the second captain of Mumbai, under whose leadership the team was first out of the playoff race, while in the beginning of 2022, under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the team was out of the playoffs for the first time.
