Hardik Pandya or Rohit Sharma- Who will lead Mumbai Indians in IPL 2024? Mumbai Indians Captain: For IPL 2024, Mumbai Indians have brought back their former player Hardik Pandya, who was the captain of Gujarat Titans for the last two years. As far as Hardik is concerned, it is believed that he will be the future captain of MI as the successor to Rohit Sharma. However, now the question is who will captain Mumbai in IPL 2024? Mumbai Indians have won five IPL Cups under the leadership of Rohit Sharma. Chennai and Mumbai have jointly won five cups.
Hardik Pandya started his IPL career with Mumbai Indians. In 2020, he left the franchise to join a new team, Gujarat Titans. When this franchise made Hardik the captain, Hardik also did not disappoint this franchise and made it champion in the very first season. Under Hardik’s leadership, Gujarat Titans reached the finals for the second consecutive year, but this time they had to be content with the runner-up finish. With Hardik returning to Mumbai Indians, it came to light why he left the Gujarat captaincy to become the vice-captain of MI. Such questions are currently being asked in the cricket circles.
It is still not clear what has happened in the deal between Hardik Pandya and Mumbai Indians. However, it is understandable that IPL-winning captains do not accept any contracts if captaincy is not involved. So will Rohit Sharma lose his captaincy and will Hardik take his place? You will get complete information about it in the next few days.
Rohit Sharma made Mumbai Indians champion five times
Rohit Sharma is the most successful Indian Premier League captain with five IPL trophies, apart from his CSK M.S. Five IPL titles have been won under Dhoni’s captaincy. Defeat in the World Cup 2023 final will force Rohit to take some tough decisions to prolong his career. Although he played like an explosive T20 batsman in the World Cup and scored 597 runs at a strike rate of 120.94, the last few seasons have not been good for him when it comes to IPL.
In the last three IPL seasons, Rohit Sharma managed to score just three half-centuries and his batting average has dropped to 30 since 2016. This is a matter of concern for Mumbai Indians. Rohit Sharma is thinking of leaving at least one format to continue his career with Team India. In such a situation, Rohit may consider leaving the captaincy of Mumbai Indians. This will reduce the pressure on him and he will be able to play freely in the IPL like the World Cup.
Why Hardik Pandya left the captaincy of Gujarat Titans for Mumbai Indians ,
Now the question is that Gujarat had given captaincy to Hardik Pandya, he was also performing well. But why did he leave the Gujarat team to play under Rohit Sharma in MI? This will be known in the next few days. Although there is a possibility that Hardik Pandya may not captain MI in IPL 2024, but the franchise believes that he should take over the captaincy of the team at the end of this season or from the next season. Rohit can leave the captaincy of MI to reduce the pressure on himself, after which Hardik can be given this responsibility and this is the reason why Hardik has left the captaincy of Gujarat. However, this is only a discussion right now and no concrete official information has been revealed in this regard.
