IPL 2024: Former RCB player AB de Villiers has objected to the news of Hardik Pandya being traded from Gujarat Titans to Mumbai Indians, but he believes that if this news turns out to be true then Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma will captain this team. Can be handed over to Pandya. AB de Villiers also gave the reason behind this. Under the captaincy of Pandya, the Gujarat team won the title in the first season while in the second season, the team reached the finals.
There is a lot of pressure of captaincy on Rohit Sharma
While talking on his YouTube channel, AB de Villiers said that Rohit Sharma is already captaining the Indian team in Test and ODI, and in such a situation, Hardik Pandya can reduce his burden by taking over the captaincy of Mumbai Indians.
AB said I have a funny feeling that Rohit Sharma will allow Hardik Pandya to captain Mumbai. However, there is a lot of pressure on Rohit Sharma from the captaincy of Team India and it is possible that he may take such a step.
AB said that this is a piece of big news for Mumbai Indians because Hardik has played for Mumbai for many years and has been an important player of this team. He loved playing at Wankhede Stadium.
He won the title for Gujarat and then also reached the finals of the next season.
They may feel that their time has come. Let us tell you that Hardik Pandya’s performance in IPL has been good he has scored 2309 runs in this league with an average of 30.38 which includes 10 half-centuries and his best score is 91 runs. As a bowler, he has also taken 53 wickets in this league so far.
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