Have you ever thought about it that the Indian Premier League is so much more than just a contest between the bat and the ball and one where there’s a lot more at stake than just the exorbitant rates or prices with which the teams operate and the enormity of efforts involved in just keeping a sense of sanity intact about the overall competition that teams (or franchises face). For if you haven’t thought about it yet, then maybe it’s just worth contemplating that another crucial factor that does come into play is concerned with managing player egos and when not egos, then just about maintaining the overall sense of harmony and peace about a unit. And where it comes to the Mumbai Indians, then perhaps it’s only fair to say that given the huge aura and the stature of the side involved, then things may or may not always be that smooth.
No randomspeak this. Consider this as a fact.
Besides the poor or lack of consistent form of their batters or bowlers, another aspect that has truly come to test the Mumbai Indians side is their leadership issue.
Maybe no one has asked this as of yet but perhaps it does beckon some serious consideration to think about whether all is right between a certain Hardik Pandya and Suryakumar Yadav, who’ve both served as their captain? Surely nothing even remotely disparaging has come to light but still there could be some level of tensity involved in their equation vis-a-vis each other right?
Timeline of Hardik Pandya following-unfollowing MI teammates on Instagram
If that doesn’t read like a shocker, then what will? Yes, you read that right. That’s exactly the thing that happened in the last few hours. This happened at the back of the Mumbai Indians losing a critical game to the Royal Challengers Bangalore in a tense final over thriller held at Raipur.
But first up, here’s something worth remembering
Of course, at this point in time Hardik Pandya is not leading the Mumbai Indians stable. He’s away from the team and has been nursing some sort of health concern that’s been keeping him away from the side itself. So instead of Hardik, it’s been Suryakumar Yadav who’s been the leader of the Mumbai Indians.
Sky, as he’s called, isn’t a first time leader of the Mumbai Indians unit. He’s led them in a few games in the past as well and knows a thing or two about captaincy. But then the thing that is concerning for most fans and may be something worth deliberating where the close knit members of the MI squad is concerned, is to check how Hardik Pandya is.
For it seriously doesn’t cast a good light when the regular captain himself unfollows the team he’s the standard captain of
Isn’t it? And if there is some sort of disconsolation or dissonance on the part of Pandya, then one notes that the same must be checked. What do you reckon? Finally, what’s worth noting is that Pandya happened to follow the MI on Instagram following their defeat to the RCB. Does that tell us something?
