Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Mumbai Indians broke the web as the choice to switch Rohit Sharma with Hardik Pandya because the captain of the franchise was introduced. The franchise ended up shedding 1000’s of followers on social media as followers condemned the choice. After coach Mark Boucher defined the logic behind this alteration within the management construction in a podcast, Rohit’s spouse Ritika took to social media to submit a remark that triggered a recent storm on the web.

Boucher known as the captaincy chnage resolution purely a ‘cricketing’ one, because the franchise meant to raise some burden off Rohit’s shoulders whereas giving Hardik the chance to proceed rising as a captain, having already led the Gujarat Titans to 2 successive IPL finals.

“I think it was purely a cricketing decision. We saw the window period to get Hardik back as a player. For me it’s a transition phase. A lot of people don’t understand in India, people get quite emotional, but you know you take the emotions away from it. I think it’s just more of a cricketing decision that was made and I do think it is going to bring the best out of Rohit as a person as a player. Just let him go out and enjoy and score some good runs,” Mark Boucher mentioned on Smash Sports podcast.

Ritika, reacting to the podcast, wrote within the remark part: “So many things wrong with this…”

Further within the podcast, Boucher mentioned he needed Rohit to focus extra on his batting, therefore determined to remove the captaincy duty from him, placing Hardik within the highlight, enabling the Hitman to play freely.

“One factor I did decide up with Ro (Rohit) is that he’s a implausible man. I imply he is been captaining for ages and he is finished rather well for Mumbai Indians. Now he additionally leads India as nicely. It is that he walks into a spot and there is simply cameras in it and he is so busy and he hasn’t had most likely the perfect couple of seasons of late with the bat however he is finished nicely as a captain.

“I just thought you know when we’re speaking with the whole Mumbai Indians group, we thought that maybe this is the opportunity for him to step as a player. We believe he got some great value to add and just go out there and actually enjoy it without the hype of being a captain,” Boucher mentioned.

“He is still going to captain India so that hype’s going be there but when he steps into the IPL maybe just taking that extra bit of pressure off him as a captain an maybe we get the best out of Rohit Sharma. We want to see him playing with a smile on his face.”