Counting days are left for the start of IPL 2024. At this time almost all the players have now joined the camps of their respective teams. On 18 March, Rohit Sharma joined Mumbai Indians and Virat Kohli joined Royal Challengers Bangalore. After Rohit Sharma joining Mumbai Indians camp, Hardik Pandya has once again started getting trolled on social media. After the explosive entry of Rohit Sharma in Mumbai Indians, users on social media started enjoying Hardik Pandya.
Rohit's entry, Hardik's joke
In IPL 2024, the captain of Mumbai Indians is not Rohit Sharma but Hardik Pandya. Ever since Hardik Pandya became the captain of Mumbai Indians, Hardik is being made fun of in some way or the other on social media. Fans have been waiting for Rohit Sharma to join the Mumbai Indians camp for a long time. The hopes of the fans are now over. As soon as Rohit Sharma entered the camp of Mumbai Indians, fans started trolling Hardik on social media.
Know what the fans are saying
Regarding Rohit Sharma's entry, a user wrote that Rohit Sharma's entry is bigger than Hardik Pandya's career. Another user wrote that Rohit Sharma is bigger than the franchise. He taught them how to win tournaments. The franchise has shared a special video on social media regarding Rohit Sharma joining the Mumbai Indians camp. Which the fans are liking a lot.
Actually, after becoming the captain of Mumbai Indians, Hardik Pandya held his first press conference on March 18. Team's head coach Mark Boucher was also present along with Hardik in this press conference. When Hardik was asked about snatching the captaincy from Rohit Sharma, he remained silent on it. Let us tell you that ever since Hardik Pandya has been made the new captain of Mumbai Indians by replacing Rohit Sharma, Hardik is being trolled every day. Fans are still unhappy with the decision to remove Rohit from the captaincy.
Former Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma has joined the Mumbai camp. Mumbai Indians posted this on social media. This time Rohit Sharma is going to play as a batsman for Mumbai. Whereas Hardik Pandya was given the responsibility of captaining Mumbai Indians. It remains to be seen how the relationship between Hardik Pandya and Rohit Sharma will be after Rohit reaches the camp.
Rohit can start practice from March 19
Former Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma has joined the Mumbai Indians camp, but has not started practice yet. It is believed that Rohit can start practicing from March 19. Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma may also face Hardik Pandya for the first time. Now it remains to be seen how Mumbai management turns this storm into peace.
Mumbai won five titles under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma.
Rohit Sharma captained Mumbai Indians for the first time in 2013 and in the same season, Rohit Sharma led Mumbai Indians to their first title with brilliant captaincy. After this, Rohit Sharma made Mumbai Indians champion five times in IPL. Mumbai Indians last won the title in 2020 under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, since then the franchise has not been able to win a single title. This could also be a reason for removing Rohit Sharma from the captaincy. Actually, Hardik Pandya captained Gujarat for the first time in 2022 and won the title in the first season, after which in 2023, under his captaincy, Gujarat reached the final.