Mumbai Indians, captained by Hardik Pandya, started IPL 2026 with a win. It was many years later that MI won the first match of the edition, but after that the team yearned for victory. With 4 consecutive defeats at Wankhede, many more unwanted records were created. Rohit Sharma could not play all the matches due to fitness, Suryakumar Yadav’s form was missing, this season was one of the worst seasons for Jasprit Bumrah. After the disappointing performance of the team, Mumbai can make some big changes, the biggest one being changing the captain.

According to the report of Indian Express, Mumbai Indians have decided to remove Hardik Pandya from the captaincy before the next season. According to the report, after the last league match against Rajasthan Royals, the coaching staff of Mumbai had a meeting with all the players. In this, displeasure was also expressed over the behavior of senior players.

Mumbai Indians team has 2 T20 World Cup winning captains (Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav). Jasprit Bumrah is a dangerous bowler, Hardik Pandya himself is a big player. However, despite being such a legend, this season did not go well for them, let alone winning, the team was not even seen fighting. According to the report, during IPL 2026, the coaching staff said some things to the players based on the data base, but the same was not done in the match. The coaching staff is angry with this and has said that in future the senior players will also have to listen to the coach.

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Will Hardik Pandya leave MI?

If Mumbai Indians removes Hardik from the captaincy, then it is possible that he may not want to stay in this franchise. There are many franchises, which can change their captain next year. It has LSG, KKR, DC. Hardik can go to any team which wants to make him the captain.

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Talking about the individual performance of Hardik Pandya, he scored only 206 runs in 10 matches in IPL 2026, he could not score a single half-century. Only 2 sixes came from his bat in the entire season. However, the biggest reason for Mumbai Indians’ flop this year was the lack of performance of their fast bowlers. Jasprit Bumrah was also able to take only 4 wickets in 13 matches.