As Mumbai Indians performed their first house recreation beneath their new captain Hardik Pandya, the followers on the Wankhede welcomed Hardik with “boos”. Sanjay Manjrekar, who was given the job of calling the toss in the course of the Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals match, requested the gang to behave and applause for the brand new captain.

Since changing into the brand new captain of the Mumbai Indians franchise, Hardik Pandya has confronted a lot of hate and criticism from the Mumbai Indians and Rohit Sharma followers. Even earlier than the IPL 2024 began the previous Gujarat Titans captain confronted on-line trolling for taking the place of their liked Rohit Sharma, who as a captain has given Mumbai nice success.

So, it was fairly anticipated that each time Mumbai Indians play their first recreation at Wankhede, Hardik may not get a terrific welcome from the followers. Precisely that occurred when Hardik Pandya went for the toss on Monday. One part of the gang began chanting “Rohit..Rohit” and one part began booing him as effectively.

Followers began booing Hardik in the course of the toss

It was fairly historic as even on their historic 250th IPL recreation, Mumbai Indians’ captain was booed on the toss. It was the primary in IPL historical past as effectively when a house captain was booed. 

“We’ve obtained two captains with me. Hardik Pandya, captain of the Mumbai Indians. Huge spherical of applause. Girls and gents, behave.”

These have been the precise phrases from Sanjay Manjrekar as he tried to collect some respect for the house staff captain Hardik Pandya.

🚨 Toss 🚨@rajasthanroyals win the toss and elect to bowl towards @mipaltan #TATAIPL | #MIvRR pic.twitter.com/pziDfHNIci

— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 1, 2024

Hardik Pandya didn’t have a terrific begin because the captain of the Mumbai Indians staff as they misplaced each of their video games. He, himself couldn’t get going both with bat or ball. Even a number of the selections he took throughout these two video games have been criticised as effectively.

Within the 250th IPL recreation, Mumbai didn’t get off to a terrific begin as effectively after shedding 4 wickets early. Trent Boult despatched again Rohit Sharma, Naman Dhir and Dewald Brevis for geese in his first spell as Mumbai misplaced 4 wickets for simply 20 runs within the first inning.