Watch: Why was Rohit removed from captaincy? MI coach and captain smelled snake as soon as they heard the question

IPL 2024: Before the IPL 2024 auction held a few months ago, Mumbai Indians traded Hardik Pandya to Gujarat Titans and in his place Cameron Green joined the Gujarat team. After some time, news came that this time instead of Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya will be seen captaining the 5-time champion team Mumbai Indians. Now, just a few days before the start of the season, the team's head coach Mark Boucher was asked the question of removing Rohit Sharma from the captaincy, but he kept silence on it.

Captain Hardik Pandya and coach Mark Boucher were bitten by a snake

As soon as the news of making Hardik Pandya the captain came out, the team management of Mumbai Indians and Pandya also started being heavily criticized on social media. Hardik Pandya and Mark Boucher were sitting together during the recent press conference. Meanwhile, on the question of removing Rohit Sharma from the captaincy, it was as if coach Mark Boucher had smelled a snake and he was seen shaking his head in the negative so as not to answer the question. Boucher's silence is giving rise to speculations that there may indeed be a rift between Hardik and Rohit. Meanwhile, when the question was asked, no smile was visible on Hardik's face.

Mark Boucher left out a question related to Rohit Sharma. pic.twitter.com/4nW7MwACmK

– Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) 18 March 2024

Hardik Pandya breaks silence on rumors of rift with Rohit Sharma

In the same press conference, Hardik Pandya also broke his silence on the rumors of his rift with Rohit Sharma. He said that he has got to learn a lot from Rohit Sharma and Rohit has always supported him. Hardik also told that more than half of his career has been spent under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma and he respects him a lot.

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