IPL 2024: MI Coach Blames Fans For Constant Booing On Hardik Pandya in IPL 2024

MI Coach Blames Fans For Constant Booing On Hardik Pandya in IPL 2024: Mumbai Indians has dismissed from the IPL 2024 after Hardik Pandya became Captain. MI Coach blamed the constant booing from fans against Hardik Pandya as the reason for him being clouded in this ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League.

“It wasn’t great hearing all the boos”: Mark Boucher About Hardik Pandya

On May 17, Mumbai Indians had a clash against Lucknow Super Giants and MI lost the game with 18 runs after that there was a post-match press conference held. In that MI Coach was angry with fans as they booed Hardik from starting to ending this IPL 2024 season.

Mark Boucher, speaking in the post-match press conference,

“It wasn’t great hearing all the boos. Certainly, I felt sorry for Hardik as well. It’s never nice to go through something like that. So yeah, there are certain things we need to address.

And we are going to address them. Now is not probably the right time. Everyone is very disappointed and emotional, so no good decision will be made in the nearest sort of time. We need to go back. We need to evaluate exactly what’s going on.”

“[There are] things that we need improvement on, whether on the field or off the field stuff. We’ve got some great heads within the management team as well, and we’ll sit down and we’ll find a way of how to make it better ultimately for the players to produce the sort of cricket that we know these players can produce, which was under par this season.

There were a lot of things happening, a lot of moving parts this season, which wasn’t great to be a part of at certain times. Certain things did affect individuals, which ultimately did affect the team.

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So those are the sort of things we need to sit down and address and hopefully make some good calls going forward as well to address the off-field stuff.”

Also, Mark Boucher speaking on his performance said that,

“I think that if [Hardik] was here, he’d also be disappointed in his performances. From a captain’s perspective, I thought he had some good games.

There’s a lot of stuff going on around him that may cloud his thoughts now and again, which I said is tough for him as a leader as well. He certainly had a lot of support within our dressing room but it’s a tough thing to go through as a player. There’s a lot of sympathy for what he’s going through.”

“A lot of the stuff he is going through is, I think, uncalled for. It will certainly be a learning curve for Hardik as he grows in leadership. While times are tough now, a couple of things will pass and make him a tougher leader and it will certainly grow him in the role as well.

I still think some fantastic things are coming from Hardik Pandya as a leader.”