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Hardik Pandya's MI Captaincy Crisis — Lowest Win Rate in Franchise History

Mumbai Indians

5 May 2026

Hardik Pandya's IPL 2026 with Mumbai Indians has produced the lowest captaincy win rate in MI's franchise history — 40.54 per cent — and a four-match losing streak that left the side on the wrong side of the playoff race. Speculation about whether Rohit Sharma or Suryakumar Yadav should take back the captaincy ran through the season, sharpened by a public Bumrah-Pandya field-placement clash on 16 April and Ravichandran Ashwin's "underwhelmed" comment on broadcast.

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Ravichandran Ashwin's 'Underwhelmed' Comment on Hardik Pandya's MI Captaincy

Mumbai Indians

April 2026

Ravichandran Ashwin, working as a broadcast analyst during IPL 2026, said publicly that he was "underwhelmed" with Hardik Pandya's Mumbai Indians captaincy — a rare on-air criticism from a fellow active senior international that became a recurring reference point in MI's mid-season captaincy debate.

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