The connection between Mumbai Indians teammates Hardik Pandya and Rohit Sharma appears to have soured a bit after the previous changed the latter as captain forward of IPL 2024.
MI and Indian cricket followers have been already not proud of Rohit being faraway from the highest job and movies of their first match collectively in opposition to Gujarat Titans on Sunday have made issues worse for the all-rounder.
Followers fumed as a clip of Pandya telling Rohit to alter his fielding place went viral on social media after MI’s 6-run defeat in opposition to GT.
Pandya was additionally booed each time the ball went in the direction of him or at any time when he got here on the large display on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. GT was in any case, the franchise which Pandya left after captaining for 2 seasons.
One other clip has surfaced on-line which exhibits Rohit getting irritated with Pandya, who hugged his former captain from behind after the match.
The 36-year-old was seen having an animated chat with Pandya in the course of the post-match presentation ceremony. All this occurred in entrance of MI group proprietor Akash Ambani and GT spinner Rashid Khan, who have been having a chat closeby.
GT outclass MI to please dwelling followers
In the meantime, GT captain Shubman Gill began his new position on a excessive as his group defeated Pandya’s MI comfortably in entrance of their dwelling crowd.
Sai Sudharsan (45) and Gill (31) helped GT submit 168 for six on the board which they efficiently defended regardless of valiant knocks from Rohit (43) and Dewald Brevis (46) as MI ended up with 162 for 9 in 20 overs.
Azmatullah Omarzai, Umesh Yadav, Spencer Johnson and Mohit Sharma bagged a few wickets every for the house group whereas Sai Kishore obtained one.