Former Indian opener Sunil Gavaskar believes Mumbai Indians (MI) had the group’s future in thoughts after they appointed Hardik Pandya as their new captain, changing Rohit Sharma.
MI acquired plenty of backlash from followers after they eliminated Rohit, who had led them to 5 IPL titles, from the captaincy submit. Nonetheless, Gavaskar feels Rohit’s age and Hardik’s functionality, it was a good move from the franchise.
This is what Sunil Gavaskar advised Star Sports activities about Mumbai Indians passing the baton from Rohit Sharma to Hardik Pandya:
“Look they have always thought about the future of the franchise. Rohit Sharma is already 36 years old and also faces immense pressure being the captain of India for all three formats. They have tried to reduce some of that burden and give that responsibility on the young shoulders of Hardik Pandya.”
Hardik tasted great success with the Gujarat Titans (GT), main them to back-to-back finals of their two seasons and in addition profitable the IPL in 2022.
Rohit Sharma can specific himself freely on the high: Sunil Gavaskar
Sunil Gavaskar additionally believes that with no stress of captaincy, Rohit Sharma could be harmful on the high of the order for MI. If the veteran opener can get Mumbai off to quickfire begins, Gavaskar feels they’ve the batting line-up to submit mammoth totals.
On this, he acknowledged:
“Handing Hardik the captaincy is only going to benefit the Mumbai Indians. They have now given the freedom to Rohit to go and express himself freely at the top of the order. Hardik can then come at No.3 or No.5 and help them post totals of 200-plus consistently.”
MI head coach Mark Boucher lately opened up on a podcast about why MI went in regards to the captaincy change. Nonetheless, Rohit’s spouse Ritika Sajdeh left a cryptic touch upon the Instagram video that steered that each one might not be cordial between the Mumbai Indians and their former captain.
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