Hardik Pandya acquired off to a poor begin because the captain of Mumbai Indians (MI) at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, shedding to his former staff Gujarat Titans (GT) in an exciting contest. It was a match that they need to have simply received and this very purpose goes to harm the MI staff, extra so in the event that they fail to make it to the playoffs due to 2 factors. MI had been cruising within the chase of 169 runs however after Rohit Sharma fell for a well-made 29-ball 43, the decrease center order collapsed and GT used that second of weak spot in MI batting to their benefit.
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Mohit Sharma and Umesh Yadav held their nerves within the loss of life overs to information GT to a victory. Needing 19 off the final 6 balls, MI skipper Hardik hit Umesh for a 6 and 4 off the primary two balls respectively. However, on the third ball, he was caught at lengthy on and that just about was the sport.
Hardik was brutally trolled on social media all through the sport. Firstly, it was for him asking Rohit animatedly to discipline within the deep. This gesture didn’t go down properly amongst Rohit followers who roasted Hardik on the web for not exhibiting respect on the sector to a senior. Another video went viral through which Rohit and Jasprit Bumrah might be seen sad with Hardik’s captaincy.Â
At the tip of the match, when Rohit is chatting with some MI and GT gamers, Hardik got here to hug Rohit from behind nevertheless it results in an animated arguement between the 2 gamers. One can see Rohit chatting with Hardik in what’s a heated dialog over one thing.
Watch Rohit and Hardik’s chat beneath:
Rashid and Ambani are speaking of a commerce deal as Rohit and Hardik combat, what is that this club_ pic.twitter.com/HeuSAv8Zoc
— ______ (@SergioCSKK) March 24, 2024
Hardik didn’t impress in all 3 departments of the sport – batting, bowling and captaincy. One of the important thing moments within the chase was when fourth MI wicket fell. With one over of Rashid Khan nonetheless left, Tim David got here to bat whereas Hardik was nonetheless ready within the dugout. It was an enormous tactical error on his half as he might have dealt with Rashid higher. David failed to attain the boundaries and that took the momentum additional away from MI.Â
There had been lot of learnings for Hardik from the primary match as MI captain and hopefully, from the Mumbai’s perspective, he’ll study from right here and enhance tactically as a captain.
