MUMBAI: Mumbai Indians had decided to replace their captain Rohit Sharma with Hardik Pandya for the IPL 2024 season yesterday. After the news came out, the fans are protesting that Rohit, who played a crucial role in helping the franchise win the IPL title five times, had been neglected. Rohit's removal and Hardik's replacement as the captain have been strongly criticised by Mumbai Indians' fans on social media pages and elsewhere.

Mumbai Indians jersey and flag were set on fire by fans and Mumbai lost four lakh fans from the social media platform X all at once. Meanwhile, Suryakumar Yadav, another Mumbai star, has also expressed his opposition to the franchise decision. Suryakumar posted a broken heart emoji on social media. It is clear that this was posted to show his dissatisfaction with the removal of Rohit from the captaincy.

Hardik Pandya, who was with Gujarat Titans, returned to Mumbai this season. Hardik was chosen as the captain immediately after his return. Earlier there were reports that Rohit has decided to retire from T20 cricket. Soon the news spread that Rohit is retiring from white-ball cricket as well. The news that Rohit has been removed from the captaincy in the upcoming IPL came out in the meantime. The Mumbai Indians camp reacted to the change of skipper saying that it was a crucial decision keeping the future in mind.