IPL 2024: Smith suggests Pandya to block out the crowd abuse at Wankhede Stadium
Updated On: 30 March, 2024 07:05 AM IST | New Delhi | PTI
Hardik, who replaced five-time IPL-winning captain Rohit Sharma as skipper this season, had a dismal start to his captaincy tenure as MI suffered back-to-back defeats.
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Australian star batter Steve Smith has advised Hardik Pandya to simply “block out” the constant jeers and boos the new Mumbai Indians skipper is receiving from spectators so far, as they are “all irrelevant”. Hardik, who replaced five-time IPL-winning captain Rohit Sharma as skipper this season, had a dismal start to his captaincy tenure as MI suffered back-to-back defeats.
On top of the two losses, the former Gujarat Titans skipper was booed by fans at Ahmedabad and Hyderabad—the venue of MI’s first two matches—as they were clearly not happy with the way Rohit was removed from captaincy. “I’d try and just say, to block it out, it’s all irrelevant,” Smith, who has faced abuse from fans across the world for his role in the 2018 ball-tampering scandal in Cape Town, told ESPNCricinfo. “No one outside knows what you are going through. No one [from outside] is in that change room.”
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