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Hardik Pandya scored 24 runs in 20 balls
Mumbai Indians waiting for victory
New Delhi. Mumbai Indians are still waiting for victory in IPL 2024. Under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya, the team has lost both its initial matches in the current season. After the defeat against Gujarat Titans, Mumbai was defeated by Hyderabad at home and forced to face defeat in two consecutive matches. In the 8th league match of IPL played at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad, while Mumbai batsmen were scoring runs at a strike rate of 200 against the mountain-like target, captain Hardik Pandya’s strike rate was 120. Team India’s former all-rounder Irfan Pathan has raised questions after seeing this attitude of Hardik.
Openers Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan gave a great start to the Mumbai Indians (SRH vs MI) team, which came to chase the target of 278 runs set by Sunrajers Hyderabad. Both added 56 runs in 3.2 overs. While Rohit scored runs at a strike rate of 216.67, Ishan scored runs at a strike rate of 261.54. Young Naman Dhir scored runs at a strike rate of 214.29 while Tilak Verma had a strike rate of 188. Tim David scored runs at a strike rate of 190.91. In this way, every batsman of Mumbai scored runs at a strike rate of around 200 but Hardik Pandya scored 24 runs in 20 balls at a strike rate of 120. Seeing this attitude of Hardik Pandya, Irfan Pathan has scolded him through social media.
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‘Captain can’t do this’
Irfan Pathan wrote on X.com (formerly Twitter), ‘When your entire team is scoring runs at a strike rate of 200, the captain cannot bat at a strike rate of 120.’ Even before this, in the match against Gujarat Titans, the veterans had raised questions on Hardik Pandya sending Tim David to bat before himself. Against Gujarat, Pandya had sent fellow batsman Tim David to bat before himself. There his move did not work and the team had to face defeat.
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The pair of Pandya and David could not score runs fast.
When the difference between runs and balls was increasing against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Hardik Pandya and Tim David were not able to maintain the pace as expected. Meanwhile, no four or six was hit till 18 balls. Mumbai needed 88 runs in the last 4 overs and then David broke the silence by hitting two sixes on Bhuvneshwar. But Unadkat showed Hardik the way to the pavilion.
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Tags: Hardik Pandya, IPL, SRH vs MI
FIRST PUBLISHED: March 28, 2024, 09:02 IST