Why did Mumbai Indians get divided in IPL 2024?
Mumbai Indians Hardik Pandya IPL 2024: IPL team Mumbai Indians captained by Hardik Pandya is now out of IPL. Although the team will play its remaining matches, but now there is no possibility of it going to the top 4 i.e. playoffs. Even if Mumbai wins all its matches from here and the rest of the equations are settled, nothing can happen even after that. Meanwhile, a report has come out, which has created a stir. Captain Hardik Pandya is being held responsible for the condition of the Mumbai Indians team, which is currently struggling at number 9 in the points table.
After IPL 2022, it is now the first to be out of the playoff race.
Mumbai Indians team has played 17 IPL seasons so far. Out of this, the team has won the IPL title 5 times. This has happened only once before the year 2024, when Mumbai team became the first team to be eliminated. That year was 2022, this time the same has been repeated again. Now a news has come out from Indian Express, which has created a stir. In the year 2023, the Mumbai Indians team was at number four, whereas in the year 2022, the team was able to finish at number ten. After this, this year the captaincy was taken from Rohit Sharma and handed over to Hardik Pandya. Before this, Hardik had taken Gujarat Titans to the finals twice in the IPL and even made them champions in the year 2022. Perhaps seeing this, Mumbai decided to make him their captain. But it seems that this decision has become a major reason for the disintegration of the team.
Hardik could not match Rohit, fans also trolled him fiercely
Hardik Pandya became the captain of the team, but his status is not like that of Rohit Sharma, everyone knows this. The fans were already very angry with the removal of Rohit from the captaincy. After this, when Hardik Pandya came on the field as captain, he had to become a victim of trolling from the fans. Even if this had happened in one or two matches, it would not have been a problem, but this situation remained the same in every match, in every stadium, in every city. Now a report in Indian Express says that some key players of Mumbai Indians had a meeting with the coaching staff recently. It has been said that the reason for this condition of the team was the leadership and working style of Hardik Pandya.
Mumbai team has become accustomed to playing under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma.
A Mumbai Indians official has said that this is not a captaincy crisis. The team which was playing under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma for the last ten years and was accustomed to him, is still not able to keep pace with the new captain. The officer believes that when there is a change of leadership, such problems arise in the beginning. Meanwhile, quoting sources in the report, it has been revealed that former captain Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah were involved in the meeting held between the players and the coaching staff. During this, there was discussion on why the Mumbai team could not perform well this year. It is said that after this a meeting was also held with the team management.
Didn’t like holding one player responsible for the defeat
It has been learned that the players did not like blaming only one player for the defeat in any match, which Hardik Pandya had done. It is about the competition between Delhi and Mumbai. In this match, Tilak Verma was batting for Mumbai and Axar Patel was handling the bowling. After the match, Hardik did not take the name of Tilak Verma, but indicated that we missed some awareness towards the game. That’s why we lost the match. Everyone thought that this was a reference to Tilak. The rest of the players present in the dressing room did not like this.
There was also news of there being two camps.
It had already come to light that this time the Mumbai Indians team is divided into two camps. Apart from spectators and fans, sports experts have also been continuously pointing towards this. Former Australian captain Michael Clarke had even said this openly. He said that there were two different groups in the team’s dressing room. They are not matching for a year. Mumbai team is not able to play as a team. Meanwhile, it has also been said in the report that the team management will take full stock of this year’s season and after that, if necessary, necessary decisions will be taken regarding the next year.
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