The performance of Mumbai Indians in IPL is disappointing. The team is at 10th place in the points table after losing 4 out of 5 matches. The team adorned with star batsmen and bowlers is failing in both the departments.
Ahmedabad: The poor performance of Mumbai Indians has put the fans in tension. There is a long line of superstars in both batting and bowling, but no one is proving to be a match winner on the field. What has happened to Mumbai Indians? Fans are very upset due to continuous defeats. Even if the team had lost after fighting, the heart would have been satisfied. But here the matter is different. In the league of ten teams, Mumbai team is at the bottom in the points table, i.e. at tenth position. The team has lost badly in four out of five matches.
The truth is that in this team with big names, no one is playing as per the requirement. There are players like Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickleton, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma in batting. In bowling, there are Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult and Mitchell Santner. And along with all this, there is also all-round captain Hardik Pandya. On paper, this team can beat anyone, but whatever they are doing on the field, everything is going wrong. There is not a single player from Mumbai in the top 25 batsmen who have scored the most runs. Whereas, if we talk about bowling, not a single bowler from Mumbai is included in the top 15.
Jasprit Bumrah has not got a single wicket so far in this tournament. Bolt, considered a powerplay specialist, has also taken only one wicket so far. The fans are getting dizzy thinking what has happened to this five-time champion, the biggest team of IPL. Meanwhile, it is also being said on social media that all is not well behind the team’s ‘One Family’ slogan. Some people are raising questions on Hardik Pandya’s captaincy and saying that the rest of the team players are not happy with him.
But most of the fans believe that all these problems come to light only when the team is losing. Fans are confident that as soon as the team returns to the winning track, all these problems will end. Fans also remember that era of Mumbai, when the team came back after consecutive defeats and lifted the cup.