Hardik Pandya or Rohit Sharma? Virender Sehwag weighs in on Mumbai Indians' captaincy debate

Hardik Pandya replaced Rohit Sharma as captain at the start of the season. - BCCI/PTIThe Mumbai Indians' captaincy is a topic of discussion in the IPL 2024. Following Rohit Sharma's replacement by Hardik Pandya, there has been considerable debate over the correctness of this decision. Moreover, the beginning of IPL 2024 has been nothing short of disastrous for the Mumbai Indians.With three consecutive losses, MI finds themselves at the bottom of the IPL 2024 points table. Hardik Pandya has also faced significant booing during matches, including at the Wankhede Stadium, which serves as MI's home ground. Following MI's recent loss against Rajasthan Royals, former Indian batter Manoj Towary suggested that Pandya might be dismissed before the team's next game. In response, Virender Sehwag made an intriguing comment."This statement about, I think this has been made in haste. This team had lost five successive matches under Rohit Sharma's captaincy too; 5-0. Then, they were champions (lost in the playoffs). So, they will be patient with Hardik, too. These are stats. They have been 0-3 down, too. But if this extends beyond that too, it might test the team management's patience," Sehwag said on Cricbuzz."Two-three franchises have done that. Punjab did that, Chennai did that when they gave the captaincy to Jadeja, and then Dhoni took over the captaincy again. But it happened midway through the season. "I don't think MI will think about the captaincy switch right now. You can't change a captain after three games; that doesn't send the right message to the team, too. But after seven games, when the season is right in the middle, they can take a call based on how the performance has been," he added.Former England captain Michael Vaughan recently spoke about the topic and said that it was "staggering" to see the cricket-crazy Indian fanbase booing one of their own players."The big debate is whether Rohit Sharma will end up back as captain. That has caused a lot of drama here in India. The booing... I have to say, the Indian crowd just loves cricket. I have never heard them boo. I've certainly never heard them boo one of their own. I get the booing when he played at (Ahmedabad) against the Gujarat Titans. He's left them and joined Mumbai. He took them to a title. So I get that in a pantomime kind of way.""But for him to go to Hyderabad and get booed and then come to Wankhede and get booed by the Mumbai Indians fans while he is playing for them, I'm staggered by it. I have never seen the Indian crowd boo one of their own. It's remarkable," Vaughan said on the Club Prairie Fire podcast with former Australia wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist. Hardik PandyaRohit Sharma Comments Submit مضمون کا ماخذ: لاٹری کے بہترین ٹکٹ