Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya
Ahead of the 2024 Indian Premier League (IPL) season, the Mumbai Indians team has taken an important decision and appointed Hardik Pandya as the new captain of the team in place of Rohit Sharma. Under Rohit’s captaincy, Mumbai Indians had won the IPL trophy five times and he is one of the great players of this league. Before the player auction, Mumbai had made Hardik Pandya a part of their team by selling Hardik Pandya, who was the captain of the Gujarat Titans team for the last two seasons, to Gujarat for Rs 15 crore.
Hardik was a part of Mumbai Indians from the 2015 to 2021 season.
Hardik Pandya made his debut in the IPL in 2015 with the Mumbai Indians team. After that, he fully confirmed his place in Team India by showing brilliant performances for this team until the 2021 season. Had done it. Ahead of the 2022 player auction, Gujarat Titans added Hardik to their team and appointed him as the captain of the team. Gujarat then won the title in its first season under Hardik’s captaincy. In the last IPL season, Gujarat had reached the final. As a captain, Hardik has an excellent record in the last two IPL seasons, so everyone is confident that Hardik, like Rohit, will play an important role in captaining Mumbai Indians and helping the team win the title again win.
Rohit made the team winners five times
When Rohit Sharma took over as captaincy of Mumbai Indians, the team had not won the title once. In the middle of the 2013 season, Ricky Ponting handed over the captaincy to Rohit and from then on there was a big change in the fortunes of the team. After that, the Mumbai team captained by Rohit managed to become the winners in the 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020 seasons. If we look at Rohit’s performance as captain of Mumbai Indians in the IPL, he led in 163 matches, winning 91 and losing 68. Rohit’s winning percentage was 55.82.
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