Mumbai Indians introduced Hardik Pandya as their new captain instead of Rohit Sharma on Friday (December 15) and the information has not fairly settled down properly with all of the followers it appears. MI have misplaced super quantity of followers of X (Formerly Twitter) and Instagram as properly. A reort from India Today means that MI misplaced 400,000 followers on X after an hour of the announcement of Pandya as new captain changing Rohit.
Mumbai Indians misplaced greater than 5 Lakh followers since yesterday. pic.twitter.com/68Op4u4FPN
 Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) December 16, 2023
Not but 24 hours and so they misplaced 600k followers on Instagram.
You cannot escape after Messing with Rohit Sharma. pic.twitter.com/7N4Yecb3iR
 Daemon (@Four_Tea_Five) December 16, 2023
Why Fans Are Not Impressed With The Decision?
Rohit Sharma took over as captain of Mumbai in 2013 from Ricky Ponting. Since then, he has led the franchise to 5 IPL crowns (most by any captain). His file was equalled by the good Mahendra Singh Dhoni in IPL 2023. Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings (CSK) defeated Gujarat Titans (GT) within the remaining. Pandya did fairly properly with Titans because the skipper for 2 seasons – within the first one he gained the IPL 2022 and reached the ultimate in 2023. (IPL 2024: Hardik Pandya Set Condition To Return Only As Captain Of MI – Report)
However, Pandya’s success as two years being captain can’t be in comparison with Rohit’s legacy as skipper of the Mumbai Indians. So perhaps that is why it’s not setting down properly with the MI followers. A video of a fan burning the jersey of the workforce after the information of Pandya as the brand new captain additionally went viral just lately. Mumbai teammates Bumrah and Suryakumar Yadav’s social media publish additionally means that not the entire individuals within the dressing are too comfortable about this information as properly.
MI squad: Akash Madhwal, Arjun Tendulkar, Dewald Brevis, Ishan Kishan, Jason Behrendorff, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, N. Tilak Varma, Nehal Wadhera, Piyush Chawla, Rohit Sharma, Romario Shepherd, Shams Mulani, Surya Kumar Yadav, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Hardik Pandya.
