‘Secure Rohit Sharma to join’: Australia strongly condemns Mumbai Indians’ ‘succession plan’ | Cricket News

The controversy surrounding Hardik Pandya replacing Rohit Sharma as the captain of Mumbai Indians in the ongoing IPL 2024 has been dominating the headlines. Hardik completed a blockbuster deal from Gujarat Titans, ending Rohit’s ten-year tenure as MI captain, but the crowd didn’t react well. Under Hardik’s leadership, MI suffered three consecutive defeats in IPL 2024 and even a section of the crowd at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium booed him. Former Australia batsman Matthew Hayden is not happy with the way the franchise has handled its “succession planning” and said he needs to get Rohit Sharma on board before taking such a big decision on the captaincy.

“Fans are the biggest stakeholders in this and they generally don’t have politics, opinions but they want to understand this and they love Rohit Sharma. There’s no getting around it. So maybe it can be handled slightly differently Ways to make sure Rohit is involved and the team is communicating it to the fans through social media platforms that announce a lot of these things and they actually carry a lot of weight,” he told Star Sports said.

Hayden also cited the decision taken by Chennai Super Kings when Ravindra Jadeja replaced MS Dhoni as captain, although it did not work out for them in the long run. It worked, but there was far less friction and controversy surrounding the decision.

“You have to have a succession plan and you saw the same thing with CSK last season, didn’t you? It didn’t quite work out for them when Jadu was the captain, so maybe there is a chance to re-evaluate, with Hardik There are some concerns in and around his leadership, but I think one of India’s iconic cricketers will be judged by the Mumbai Indians’ notoriously slow start to the season, and will be for a long time to come. It’s very unfair and depends on his own fitness and as an all-rounder he’s always going to be vulnerable. But misjudge his performance so far and the team’s performance and then guess what happened and didn’t happen in the dressing room What, and we don’t know, is very unfair,” he concluded.