Hardik Pandya takes over as Mumbai Indians captain

Hardik Pandya will captain Mumbai Indians in IPL 2024, taking over from Rohit Sharma, who led the team through a decade of thrilling highs. Rohit, who led Mumbai to five IPL titles, is the joint-most-successful captain in the tournament's history alongside Chennai Super Kings' MS Dhoni. The authority change comes under a month after Mumbai took Hardik back to his unique establishment after he had captained Gujarat Titans to a title and an other participants finish in consecutive seasons. Mumbai said they pursued this choice to remain "future-prepared". "It is important for heritage fabricating and remaining consistent with the MI reasoning of being future-prepared," Mahela Jayawardene, Mumbai's worldwide head of execution, said in a proclamation. "Mumbai Indians have forever been honored with remarkable administration right from Sachin [Tendulkar] to Harbhajan [Singh] and Ricky [Ponting] to Rohit, who while adding to the prompt achievement have consistently had an eye in reinforcing the group for what's in store. It is with regards to this way of thinking that Hardik Pandya will accept captaincy of Mumbai Indians for the IPL 2024 season. "We offer our thanks to Rohit Sharma for his outstanding authority; his residency as the chief of the Mumbai Indians starting around 2013 has been completely phenomenal. His administration has carried unrivaled accomplishment to the group as well as set his place as quite possibly of the best commander throughout the entire existence of the IPL. "Under his direction, MI became one of the best and adored groups of all time. We will anticipate his direction and experience on and off the field to additionally reinforce MI. We invite Hardik Pandya as the new commander of MI and hope everything turns out great for him all." On the whole, Rohit drove Mumbai multiple times in the IPL and the Heroes Association T20, dominating 91 matches, tieing four and losing 68. Under him, Mumbai arrived at five IPL finals - in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020 - and won every one of them. However, the last three seasons have been less fruitful for Mumbai. They neglected to make the end of the season games in 2021 and 2022, and left the 2023 competition with a misfortune to Titans in the subsequent Qualifier. While the improvement could profoundly shock some, Mumbai had a reasonable arrangement when they exchanged Hardik from Titans. The establishment had recognized Hardik as Rohit's replacement and needed to guarantee a smooth progress as previously, when the captaincy mallet had passed from Sachin Tendulkar to Harbhajan Singh and afterward Ricky Ponting to Rohit. It is perceived that Rohit will keep on playing for Mumbai in the IPL. It is not yet clear whether the captaincy change at Mumbai is a forerunner to a comparative change in India's T20I group. Rohit is right now India's all-design commander, yet has not played a T20I since the semi-last loss at the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia. In that time, Hardik has captained India in the organization when accessible - he has driven them in 13 of their last 25 T20Is - yet is right now down and out with a lower leg injury supported during the new ODI World Cup. Suryakumar Yadav - another Mumbai Indians player - captained India in the as of late closed T20I series in South Africa.