Mumbai Indians dropped a bombshell a few days in the past by appointing Hardik Pandya as the brand new captain changing Rohit Sharma forward of the 2024 version of the IPL. Since Rohit has been the joint-most profitable captain within the IPL having led the Mumbai facet to 5 titles in over 10 editions, the sentiments or the final response to the choice hasn’t been optimistic. While there was an expectation of Hardik Pandya changing into the captain, since he was traded from a franchise the place he was the skipper and led them to two finals, together with a title-finish within the maiden season in 2022.
However, former India batter Sanjay Manrekar has urged everyone to chorus from bringing sentiments into their judgement contemplating Hardik is a confirmed chief and since he was captain India in T20s as nicely, the choice made sense.
Speaking on Star Sports through the discussions for the primary ODI between India and South Africa, Manjrekar mentioned, “One ought to not be considering sentimentally or emotionally about Rohit Sharma. I feel it’s a very good transfer as Hardik Pandya is a confirmed chief and has had a fantastic run. So, he’s your in-form T20 captain and participant.
“Rohit has been round for a very long time. So, it makes a number of cricketing sense to have any person like Hardik,” he mentioned.
Hardik started his IPL profession at Mumbai Indians in 2015 and went on to kind a formidable middle-order alongside the likes of Krunal Pandya and Kieron Pollard. However, when MI did not retain Hardik forward of the 2022 mega public sale, Hardik was picked as captain by the Gujarat Titans and the brand new franchise could not have a greater begin to their journey within the cash-rich league than they’d.
Manjrekar simply hoped that Hardik would not take the strain of how all this has panned out in the previous couple of weeks as he has carried out nicely main his facet. “I simply hope he doesn’t really feel the strain of how the switch occurred and Mumbai Indians backing him a lot,” he added.
