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Mumbai Indians have lost seven of their first nine matches in IPL 2026, putting them on the brink of elimination. Harsha Bhogle criticizes the team's decision to experiment with Hardik Pandya as captain.
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'Experiment with Hardik Pandya as captain is not working': Harsha Bhogle calls for MI captaincy change after IPL 2026 debacle originally appeared on Cricket News. Add Cricket News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
Mumbai Indians' nightmare campaign in the IPL 2026 season continued as they suffered their seventh defeat of the season against arch-rivals Chennai Super Kings on Saturday at the Chepauk.
The MI batting once again crumbled in the Chennai conditions and had managed to put up just 159 runs on the board, which the hosts chased down for the loss of just two wickets.
This was only the third time in IPL history that CSK did the season double over MI after the 2014 and 2023 IPL seasons. In the first leg fixture at Wankhede, MI suffered their worst-ever IPL defeat by 103 runs.
With the loss at Chepauk, MI are on the verge of facing elimination from the league as they can only reach 14 points from here, which does not always guarantee a playoff spot.
Harsha Bhogle stated that the experiment with Hardik Pandya as captain has not worked, contributing to MI's poor performance.
Mumbai Indians have lost seven out of their first nine matches, placing them on the verge of elimination from the league stage.
Mumbai Indians need to significantly improve their performance, as they are currently facing elimination with only two wins possible from their remaining matches.
Harsha Bhogle called for a change in captaincy for Mumbai Indians, indicating that the current approach with Hardik Pandya is ineffective.

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Star Indian commentator and pundit Harsha Bhogle, who has been associated with the MI franchise in the past, took to social media, to share his thoughts about the franchise's horror show in the ongoing season.
Bhogle touched upon several subjects and weaknesses that he noticed in the current MI squad. The commentator felt that, except for Jasprit Bumrah, none of the other Indian players was in great form during the T20 World Cup 2026; however, no one expected MI to fail this miserably.
He further opined that MI's experiment of making Hardik Pandya the captain of the franchise in 2024, has not worked out for the team as they have reached the playoff stage only once in the last three editions.
On X, Bhogle wrote: "I must confess I didn't see a team, as studded with stars as #MumbaiIndians is, come apart like this. The only possible indicator could have been that, Bumrah apart, the others hadn't had an outstanding T20WC. But nobody could have predicted this. I had thought aloud about a hypothesis on my YT channel that reputation is becoming a burden in modern T20 cricket as a possible reason. I don't know if all the forces within were aligned but that could be another. And the experiment with Hardik Pandya as captain is now 3 years old and it has delivered a play-off only once so maybe something isn't working there. But I bet nobody saw #MI not making the play-offs."
While Pandya's off-form has seriously impacted MI's performances this season, it will be wrong to put the entire blame on the captain of the side. Almost all other Indian recruits have miserably failed to recreate the magic of the Indian team that fans witnessed at the T20 World Cup 2026.
Bumrah has looked off colour and batters of all teams have dominated against him, a very rare sight in IPL or international cricket. Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav has also struggled with his batting form. Rohit Sharma has been nursing an injury since last month and has hardly featured for the team this season, complicating MI's team selections, which have lacked consistency.
Tilak Varma is the only Indian player who has contributed with the bat in at least one game, as he scored a century of just 45 runs against the Gujarat Titans.
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