When Mumbai Indians announced the appointment of Hardik Pandya as the captain in place of Rohit Sharma for the 17th season of IPL, since then both the franchise and Pandya are continuously facing criticism from the fans. Now, when this season is not going well for the team, Kevin Pietersen and Sunil Gavaskar have also strongly criticized Hardik Pandya for his captaincy and his form. In the match against Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians lost the match by 20 runs despite Rohit Sharma’s century. After the defeat in this match, captain Hardik Pandya is facing the most criticism, who came to bowl the last over of CSK’s innings and gave away 26 runs. After this match, former England team player Kevin Pietersen criticized Hardik and said that looking at him it was clear that he was acting.
At the time of the toss it was clearly visible that he was smiling forcefully.
Kevin Pietersen said on Star Sports about Hardik Pandya’s captaincy that I think he is being affected by everything happening outside the game at the moment. When I saw him at the time of the toss, it was clearly visible that he was smiling forcibly, it seemed as if he was acting. He is not happy at all at this time. I’ve been there and I can say it’s affecting him. When Dhoni was hitting sixes off his balls, you could hear the noise in the stadium which was against Hardik. He is also an Indian player and he also has feelings. It would make a difference to him if he was treated this way.
Gavaskar criticized Hardik on captaincy front
Former Indian team captain Sunil Gavaskar strongly criticized Hardik Pandya as a bowler and captain after the defeat of Star Sports Mumbai Indians team. Gavaskar said that I have seen such bad bowling after a long time. Hardik was clearly aware of the fact that he had such bowling on which Dhoni could easily hit a six, even then you were bowling him the length on which any batsman would have delivered the ball to the fans in such a situation. The bowling was completely below normal and his captaincy in the match was also very poor.
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