Fans called him names like ‘Chapri’, and it seemed to be the Rohit Sharma fans doing it as they were hailing praise for the ex-MI captain.
Mullanpur: Things did not change for Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya away from Wankhede on Thursday as fans were calling him names during the IPL match at Mullanpur versus Punjab Kings. Fans called him names like ‘Chapri’, and it seemed to be the Rohit Sharma fans doing it as they were hailing praise for the ex-MI captain. The fans calling Hardik names were at a distance from the real action and the clip that is going viral now shows this taking place before the game when the teams were warming up. Here is the viral clip.
Hardik Pandya
Everyone calling him as chapri here 🥲 #PBKSvsMI #RohitSharma pic.twitter.com/DD2nWsbiEz— Tom Churran (@viratf9950) April 18, 2024
“We were wanting to bat first as well, so good toss to lose. We don’t judge (our performances), couple of times we had the game in our grasp and didn’t finish the game, IPL tests you, when the game is not over it is not over. We just take it game by game, go out there and give our 100 percent. Every indivdual should commit to the team’s goal and once we do that, the results will be seen. Same team,” Pandya said at the toss.
Teams:
Punjab Kings (Playing XI): Rilee Rossouw, Prabhsimran Singh, Sam Curran(c), Jitesh Sharma(w), Liam Livingstone, Shashank Singh, Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh
Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan(w), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Mohammad Nabi, Gerald Coetzee, Shreyas Gopal, Jasprit Bumrah