'Mumbai Indians had to look beyond Rohit Sharma because….': Robin Uthappa on why MI brought in Hardik Pandya in IPL 2024

While speaking astatine the TRS podcast, Robin Uthappa mentioned however captaincy was handed implicit from Ricky Ponting to Rohit Sharma and each different elder players similar Sachin Tendulkar and Harbhajan Singh, supported the young captain.

"Hardik Pandya is their discovery. They did it done their scouting methods. So they are fundamentally looking astatine a axenic Mumbai Indians boy. When captaincy was fixed to Rohit Sharma it was taken from Ricky Ponting successful the mediate of the season. This is the aforesaid franchise. All the elder guys Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, and Ricky Ponting supported Rohit," Uthappa said successful the TRS podcast.

"In the past 4 years, statistically... I'm ne'er gonna question the caliber and the gloriousness of Rohit Sharma the batter. But look astatine it from a franchise perspective. They won successful 2020. They didn't triumph successful the past 3 years. And the past 3 years, Rohit scored little than 300 runs (only once). So there's a deficiency of occurrence arsenic a batter, a deficiency of occurrence arsenic a captain. In conscionable the IPL origin everyplace else, helium has scored runs," Uthappa added.

MI onshore connected statement to look beyond Rohit Sharma

Robin Uthappa spoke astir the method facet down Mumbai Indian's determination to alteration their skipper and Rohit Sharma's greatness arsenic a subordinate and skipper was for everyone to spot during the ICC World Cup 2023.

“So determination is simply a crushed MI landed connected this statement that possibly we person to look beyond Rohit. Maybe this speech came astir astatine the extremity of the past season. They whitethorn person conversations successful antithetic directions. Then Rohit Sharma's occurrence astatine the ODI World Cup came through. His greatness arsenic a subordinate and person was determination for everyone to see," the erstwhile batter said.

"The communicative was thrown up successful the aerial but was yet to onshore but for Mumbai Indians, it landed past twelvemonth itself, perhaps. From their perspective, they felt they were right. If you look astatine however they operated before, to however they are operating now, it's the same. They person been consistent, truthful however tin you responsibility them?" Uthappa added.

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Published: 20 Apr 2024, 02:21 PM IST