Hardik Pandya Statement After MI vs RCB Match: Mumbai Indians suffered their fourth defeat in IPL 2025. The team has played only five matches so far but has hit a four of defeats. Due to poor performance, the road to the playoffs for Mumbai Indians has also become very difficult. The five-time champion team played its fifth match against Royal Challengers Bangalore on 7 April, in which it had to face defeat by 12 runs.
MI vs RCB: In this match, at one time the victory of Mumbai Indians seemed certain but in the last overs, the RCB bowlers turned the tables. After his team’s defeat, Hardik Pandya’s statement has come out, in which he somewhere targeted Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav. Apart from this, he also worked to bring out the whole truth behind Tilak Verma’s retirement.
MI vs RCB: Hardik Pandya said a big thing about the powerplay and middle overs
MI vs RCB: The powerplay was nothing special for Mumbai Indians and Rohit Sharma was bowled after scoring 17 runs. At the same time, Suryakumar Yadav could not do anything special in the middle overs and was seen struggling. He later hit some fours and scored 28 runs in 26 balls. Hardik mentioned this in his statement and perhaps targeted both of them. Hardik said after the match:
“Powerplays are very important in such games. We could not perform well in some of the middle overs. Due to this we fell a little behind in chasing the target. He did well in the death overs and we could not play those balls.”
Tilak Verma was retired hurt due to injury
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Came in when his team was in trouble and low on confidence, but delivers a crucial fifty! 👊🔥
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MI vs RCB: In the match against Lucknow Super Giants, Tilak Verma batted very slowly and then he was retired out in the 19th over of the run chase. This decision was also criticized a lot. At the same time, now Hardik Pandya has told the whole story behind it. Hardik said:
“Tilak was brilliant. A lot happened in the last game. But people don’t know that he had a bad injury the previous day. It was a collective decision because he had a finger injury. The coach felt there could be a better option because if a new player comes in he can do it. Today I think he was brilliant.”