Hardik Pandya might be probably the most talked about Indian cricketer proper now. If changing five-time IPL champion Rohit Sharma on the helm of Mumbai Indians wasn’t sufficient, the poor begin to his management function on the franchise in IPL 2024 have made issues worse for Pandya. In all places he goes, even on social media, the hate surrounding Pandya is there for all to see. For India’s greatest quick bowling allrounder, Pandya undoubtedly is underneath strain, extra so from the surface. Hardik Pandya’s Indian cricket teammate R Ashwin has spoken on the difficulty.

“Hardik Pandya getting booed is actually unhealthy! Ought to MI administration step in and owe an evidence to the followers? It is actually administration’s poor switch. What do you say?” A fan names Santhoshkumar M requested Ashwin.

On YouTube, He replied in Tamil: “Neither has any function to play. I feel it’s the accountability and onus of the followers. Within the feedback part you see talks about Virat Kohli , MS Dhoni. They’re Indian cricket workforce legends. It is extremely unhappy. That is cricket. It’s a full cinema tradition. I do know there may be additionally positioning, branding, advertising and marketing. However fan wars, ugly.

“in case you don’t love a participant and boo a participant, why ought to a workforce come out to situation a clarification? We act like this has not occurred earlier than. Sachin performed underneath Ganguly’s captaincy, these two have each performed underneath Rahul Dravid. These three have performed underneath Kumble and all of them have performed underneath Dhoni. After they had been underneath MS, these gamers had been cricket giants. We have to get our act collectively. That is actual time sport.”

Australian star batter Steve Smith has suggested Hardik Pandya to easily “block out” the fixed jeers and boos the brand new Mumbai Indians skipper is receiving from spectators on the IPL up to now, as they’re “all irrelevant”.

I might attempt to simply say, to dam it out, it is all irrelevant,” Smith, who has confronted abuse from followers internationally for his function within the 2018 ball-tampering scandal in Cape City, instructed ESPNcricinfo.

“Nobody exterior is aware of what you’re going by means of. Nobody (from exterior) is in that change room.”

Smith, who was known as “cheat” by followers in the course of the 2019 ODI World Cup in England, feels all these abuse will come as a giant shock for Hardik as he’s getting it from his Indian followers at residence.

“Personally, for me, it does not trouble me. I do not care. I do not pay any consideration,” stated Smith, who needed to resign as Rajasthan Royals captain in 2018 after the ball-tampering scandal.

“You understand it is all white noise, however definitely gamers do hear issues and everybody’s entitled to their very own feelings and the way they reply to these.

“So is it affecting him (Hardik)? Perhaps. It is doable. He most likely hasn’t skilled that earlier than in, in any stroll of life.

“So it is pure, I suppose, and significantly being in India and a star Indian participant, to be in that place the place some followers are booing you, it is definitely one thing he would not have skilled.”

With PTI inputs