“A very confused team”: South Africa great on Hardik Pandya-led MI’s performance in IPL 2024 | cricket news
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Former South African cricketer Graeme Smith said that Mumbai Indians (MI) have been a “very confused team” in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 this year. The Mumbai-based franchise lost to Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 24 runs. At Wankhede Stadium on Friday. Speaking on JioCinema, Smith said it was ‘disappointing’ to see MI’s performance in the 17th season of the IPL. “They have been a very confused team this year. One of the mega franchises in this year’s IPL has had an extremely disappointing performance. And, you know, a lot of people will be very, very sad tonight – the MI fan base and MI camp,” Smith said.
Commenting on MI captain Hardik Pandya’s performance, the former cricketer said that the bowling all-rounder has struggled so far in IPL 2024. He further said that MI looked “confused” while playing against KKR.
“Hardik has really struggled. He seems to be a man under pressure which has obviously created a bit of chaos in the atmosphere and who knows what effect it has had on people. But even his The batting lineup also, it seemed like they were confused, you know, I think, Tilak Verma, Naman Dheer are batting at number three tonight, they should have been rotating all over the place, Tilak 3, Skye at 4 and Hardik at 5, then find your bowling unit,” he added.
Recaping the match, electing to bat first, a solid 83-run partnership between Venkatesh Iyer (70 off 52) and Manish Pandey (42 off 31) took KKR to 169. For MI, Jasprit Bumrah bounced back with the first two wickets. Ended with 3 wickets for 18 runs in 3.5 overs.
In reply, MI were all out for 145 runs. Starc made a stellar comeback in the tournament, returning with figures of 4-33 and led KKR to a 24-run win. Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine both finished with similar figures of 2/22, which also included some big wickets in the first half of the chase, which put KKR on top in the match.
After the win, KKR are second in the IPL 2024 standings with 14 points. Meanwhile, MI are at ninth position with 6 points.
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