Rohit Sharma’s Wife Reaction Sends Internet into Frenzy After MI Coach Reveals the Reason Behind Replacing Rohit
Rohit Sharma's wife sparked outrage on the internet with her statement on a podcast in which Mumbai Indians coach Mark Boucher justified his choice to choose Hardik Pandya as the franchise's captain.
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The Mumbai Indians, an Indian Premier League (IPL) team, exploded the internet when they revealed that Hardik Pandya will replace Rohit Sharma as captain. Fans lambasted the choice, and the franchise lost thousands of social media followers as a result. After coach Mark Boucher described the reasoning for this shift in leadership structure in a podcast, Rohit’s wife Ritika turned to social media to write a statement that sparked a new firestorm on the internet.
Boucher described the captaincy change as entirely a ‘cricketing’ choice, as the franchise wanted to take some of the load off Rohit’s shoulders while also providing Hardik the opportunity to continue maturing as a captain after leading the Gujarat Titans to two consecutive 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 said on Smash Sports podcast.
Ritika, reacting to the podcast, wrote in the comment section: “So many things wrong with this…”
Further in the podcast, Boucher stated that he wanted Rohit to focus more on his batting, thus he removed the leadership job from him, allowing Hardik to play freely.
“One thing I did pick up with Ro (Rohit) is that he is a fantastic guy. I mean he’s been captaining for ages and he’s done really well for Mumbai Indians. Now he also leads India as well. It is that he walks into a place and there’s just cameras in it and he’s so busy and he hasn’t had probably the best couple of seasons of late with the bat but he’s done well 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 said.
“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.”
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