Hardik Pandya Ban: Big blow to Mumbai Indians captain, won't play first match of IPL 2025

Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya suffered a big blow after their 18-run loss against Lucknow Super Giants in the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 at the Wankhede Stadium, on May 17 (Friday). The star all-rounder has been hit with a one-match ban from the BCCI and won't be playing the next match and as MI have played all their league stage matches, Hardik will most likely won't be playing the first match of next season.

Hardik Pandya suffers one-match ban

“Hardik Pandya, the Mumbai Indians captain, has been fined after his team maintained a slow over rate during their TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 match against Lucknow Super Giants at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on May 17. As it was his team’s third offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over rate offences, Pandya was fined INR 30 lakhs and banned from playing the team’s next match. The rest of the members of the Playing XI, including the Impact Player, were each individually fined either INR 12 lakhs or 50 percent of their respective match fees, whichever is lesser,” IPL started in their press release.

 

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Hardik Pandya speaks on MI's disappointing campaign

 

After the match against LSG, Hardik expressed his disappointment and said that MI didn't play good quality cricket which cost them the whole season. He added that they failed to play good cricket as a group and now would be focusing on the next season.

 

“Quite difficult, this season we didn't play good quality cricket and it cost us the whole season. It's a professional world, sometimes there'll be good and sometimes bad days. As a group we didn't play quality and smart cricket and it showed in the results. Too early to exactly point out what went wrong tonight. We can pass on this game and look forward to the next season,” Hardik said in the post-match presentation.

 

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