Former South African captain abdominal de Villiers really feels that Hardik Pandya’s bad 2024 Indian Premier League as captain and gamer can be to “ego-driven” management.
Hardik was traded from Gujarat Titans to Mumbai Indians in advance of the period and changed Rohit Sharma as captain for the 2024 IPL. However, he has not had the very best competition, as captain or gamer, getting flak from specialists for his techniques and his on-field efficiencies.
Mumbai are presently 8th in the factors table with 4 success from 12 video games, having actually taped the joint-least success amongst all sides in the competitors. As a gamer, Hardik has actually been incapable to influence too, racking up 198 go for a strike price of 147.76. He has actually grabbed 11 arches yet has actually shown to be costly, addressing 10.58 runs an over, in a tough competition for bowlers.
Recent records in The Indian Express affirm that a number of elderly gamers consisting of Rohit, Jasprit Bumrah and Suryakumar Yadav have actually examined Hardik’s captaincy, impacting the group’s spirits.
De Villiers has actually currently declared that his “bravado” management method is confirming inadequate in a group with a lot of knowledgeable celebrities, which it collaborated with his previous side Gujarat Titans where there were more youthful gamers. Hardik led Gujarat to the title in their initial year in the IPL in 2022 and led them into the final in 2015.
Speaking on his You Tube network, de Villiers claimed: “The captaincy style of Hardik Pandya is quite bravado. It’s ego-driven in a way, chest out. I don’t think the way he walks on the field is always genuinely real to the person that he really is, but he has decided that is his way of captaincy. Almost like MS. Cool, calm, collective, always got your chest out, always smiling,” he included.
“But the problem with that is if you play with a lot of experienced players, guys who have been around for ages, they don’t buy into that. It worked at GT, where it was a younger team. Sometimes, inexperienced players love to follow that kind of leadership.”
He additionally offered an instance of his previous South Africa captain Graeme Smith to make his factor. “I think of Graeme Smith who was very much out there. He was the guy for the team. All I needed to do as a youngster was just to follow. Now all of a sudden there’s a Rohit, there’s a Bumrah. There’s a lot of experienced players around and they go like, ‘All we need you to be is calm. Give us a bit of info [information] and input into what we need to do to win matches. We don’t need the bravado.’ I’m not having a go at Hardik,” he claimed.
“I actually love watching him play. I love him putting out his chest because I was like that. It takes a special senior player to buy into that and say ‘You know what? You put your chest out, fake it out there, and we’ll follow you, no matter what We understand you.’ I don’t think that has clicked in the season for Mumbai Indians.”
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