Five -time champions Mumbai Indians lost to Royal Challengers Bangalore by 12 runs at home ground on Monday. But Tilak Verma scored 56 runs for the team in the match. Tilak took his team very close to victory against RCB. But finally the Mumbai lost the match. The team then decided to retire them. Which caused a lot of uproar. Now the statement of Mumbai captain Hardik Pandya has come out on this matter.
Retirement controversy in last match
Tilak Verma scored 56 runs from just 29 balls against RCB. After his brilliant innings, captain Hardik Pandya has broken his silence on the retirement controversy in the last match. After the match against RCB, Hardik said about Tilak’s innings, ‘Tilak played very well. There were many incidents in the last match as well. People used to talk a lot about him, but no one knew that he was injured that day. It was a technical decision as he had an injury to his finger. The coach felt that this is the right choice and a new player would be able to do this work well.
We could not do well in the middle order: Hardik
Regarding Tilak’s innings against RCB, Hardik said, “He performed brilliantly today. Powerplay is very important in such matches. We failed to perform well in the middle order in a few overs and so we followed the target again. It is not easy to stop any team, especially on this ground. The way RCB achieved this feat was incredible.
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