Since the announcement from the Mumbai Indians that Hardik Pandya will become the captain in the 2024 IPL, everyone has been shocked, especially MI fans, because Rohit Sharma was the legendary captain for the Mumbai Indians in the first 5 years of the IPL. The Mumbai Indians had not won even a single trophy in the IPL. After the arrival of Rohit Sharma in the IPL, in eight years, under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the Mumbai Indians have won five trophies.
MI fans were very angry with this decision of Mumbai Indians, and followers started falling on the Instagram page of Mumbai Indians before the decision of MI’s 13.1 million followers. currently have 12.3 million followers; around 8 lakh followers have fallen on Instagram, and with the Mumbai Indians’ followers falling, Chennai Super Kings has become the most followed team in IPL on Twitter (10.1 million) and Instagram (13.1 million). after this decision, Surya Kumar also posted a heartbreak emoji on his Instagram story.
Many hateful trends are being done on Twitter, too, like #ShameOnMI and #RIPMUMBAIINDIANS, etc.
There have also been reports that MI had offered captaincy to Hardik Pandya, so how could Hardik Pandya reject this captaincy as he had also captained the Gujarat Titans? It is also being said that the Mumbai Indians have made a trade offer. For this, Hardik Pandya was contacted, and Hardik Pandya put in a condition that he would come to MI only when he was made captain, and the Mumbai Indians accepted this condition. The MI had also told Rohit Sharma, and he agreed.
Timeline of Hardik Pandya's return: (Indian Express).
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– MI approached Hardik Pandya for trade.
– Hardik put the condition to be made the captain.
– MI accepted Hardik's condition and informed Rohit.
– Rohit agreed to play under Hardik.
Another big news has come: the IPL trading window is opening again on December 20, 2023. Now other teams can approach other players’ teams for trades. Just like Hardik Pandya has come to the Mumbai Indians team, similarly, any player can join the other team.
IPL Trading window opens again on December 20th. pic.twitter.com/SAr7T353pe
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