Lucknow: The disappointing performance of Mumbai Indians (MI) continues in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024. On Monday, the match was played against Rajasthan Royals (RR) at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. In this match, Mumbai had to face a crushing defeat and Rajasthan defeated them by 9 wickets. With this, the doors of playoffs are almost closed for MI. In such a situation, former Indian batsman Manoj Tiwari has held captain Hardik Pandya responsible for this situation in Mumbai.

Hardik has taken many surprising decisions while captaining MI this year, which have cost the team a lot and due to this, Mumbai is also present at 7th position in the points table. Tiwari has blamed Hardik for this condition of MI and believes that if Pandya continues to captain like this, the team cannot win. Actually, after Mumbai's defeat in the match against RR, Manoj Tiwari has given a big statement during a conversation on Cricbuzz.

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He said, “If Hardik Pandya continues this kind of captaincy, Mumbai can never reach the playoffs. Earlier the players were with Rohit Sharma but now it seems that the players have not made Hardik Pandya the captain of the team. If you have a bowler like Jasprit Bumrah then why don't you give him the first over to bowl. Butler had scored a century earlier and Yashasvi Jaiswal was not in good form. In such a situation, you should have given a chance to your best bowler and this also increases the chances of taking wickets.

The former cricketer continued his attack on the Mumbai captain and he further said that “When Hardik Pandya came to bowl in the first over, he was hit for 2 fours in that over and that took away the shine of the new ball and also the swing of the ball. Decreased. With this, things became easier for the batsman and I do not see MI making progress in the points table. If such stupid mistakes are repeated, this is what the team is going to be in.”

Hardik Pandya's performance has been disappointing in IPL 2024

Let us tell you that ever since the 31-year-old became the captain of Mumbai, everything has been going against him. He replaced Rohit Sharma, who had made the franchise champion 5 times under his captaincy. In such a situation, even the fans did not like this decision of Mumbai and slogans are raised against Hardik in the field. Apart from this, Pandya has also failed to answer the critics with his performance as a captain and player.

The star all-rounder has played a total of 8 matches so far this season, in which he has scored 151 runs with a modest average of 21.57 and during this period he has not been able to touch the 50-run mark even once. At the same time, he has been lackluster in bowling and has been able to take only 4 wickets and has spent runs at an economy of around 11.

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