Mumbai Indians (MI) captain Hardik Pandya’s face instructed the entire story throughout the toss earlier than the IPL 2024 conflict vs his outdated group Gujarat Titans (GT) at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Last 12 months, Pandya was main GT, this 12 months he’s donning the blue jersey of MI. The crowd began booeing the brand new MI captain after commentator Ravi Shastri took his identify on the toss. The booeing had an impact on Pandya whose face expressions revealed all of it. MI received the toss and elected to bowl first.
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Watch the video of Hardik getting booed by GT crowd in Ahmedabad:
Hardik’s response when he realized they’re booing__ https://t.co/ElPYn9ESTm
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Rohit Sharma, former MI captain, was retained within the facet and can open the innings with Ishan Kishan whereas Tilak Varma goes to play for MI at quantity 3. There isn’t any Suryakumar Yadav within the facet for Mumbai they usually usher in Naman Dhir who makes his debut.
Jasprit Bumrah can also be again in MI colors as South African tempo sensation Gerald Coetzee made his IPL debut. Luke Wood was additionally on his IPL debut. The MI center order seemed sturdy because it included Hardik, Tim David whereas Shams Mulani additionally makes the lower with Piyush Chawla being the lone wrist spinner within the facet.
While he received booed by the Ahmedabad crowd, Pandya spoke about his join with Gujarat. He stated ,”My birthplace is Gujarat, a lot of success came in Gujarat, very grateful to the crowd and this state. My cricketing birth happened in Mumbai, so really good to be be back. It’s been almost two weeks, we started the camp. Boys are very eager to go out there and perform. We had wonderful practice matches and practice nets.”
Not to neglect, it was not simply Pandya who was on a debut of kinds as he was main the MI group for the primary time, Shubman Gill was additionally captaining Gujarat Titans (GT) for the primary time as effectively.
Speaking to Shastri on the toss, Shubman stated that he was excited to steer GT at a floor of which he has fond reminiscences.
“Feels very excited, to be able to captain at a stadium where I have a lot of fond memories. This has been one of our strengths, the last couple of seasons the support that we’ve got from the fans has been tremendous for us. I was here a week prior before this game, played a practice match, had a couple of practice sessions. Everyone is looking good, everyone is looking fit. We have got three players making debuts for GT – Umesh bhai, Spencer and Omarzai. There are so many players who will be making their debut later this season,” stated Shubman.
Gujarat Titans (Playing XI): Shubman Gill(c), Wriddhiman Saha(w), Sai Sudharsan, Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Umesh Yadav, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Spencer Johnson
Gujarat Titans Subs: BR Sharath, Mohit Sharma, Manav Suthar, Abhinav Manohar, Noor Ahmad
Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan(w), Tilak Varma, Naman Dhir, Hardik Pandya(c), Tim David, Shams Mulani, Piyush Chawla, Gerald Coetzee, Jasprit Bumrah, Luke Wood
Mumbai Indians Subs: Dewald Brevis, Romario Shepherd, Vishnu Vinod, Nehal Wadhera, Mohammad NabiÂ
