Mohammad Kaif’s emotional video on Hardik Pandya: You will remember IPL 2024. If a cricketer had to face the most criticism in this season, he was Hardik Pandya. After Rohit became the captain of Mumbai Indians, Hardik faced Hooting on the field to trolling on social media. But Hardik kept smiling throughout the match. His team stood at the bottom of the points table in IPL 2024. But now a year later, Hardik’s story has completely changed. When Hardik takes the ground in IPL 2025, he will have two ICC trophy in his hand. After the T20 World Cup, Hardik also performed as the champion in the Champions Trophy. Former Team India star player Mohammad Kaif has expressed his views on Hardik’s journey. Kaif said on social media that ‘Hardik has suffered a lot of mental harassment. The story of Hardik’s reaching here from there is so inspiring that a biopic or documentary film should be made on it. Kaif described Hardik as a ‘lion of the jungle’.
Return story
Mohammad Kaif has posted an emotional video on social media for Hardik Pandya. In this, he has told the story of Hardik’s return to mental torture and insult. Kaif said, ‘Hardik Pandya said that I did not want to show my tears to anyone. Otherwise, people would be more happy and enjoy more. He moved forward with his heart ache. This was a very bad journey. People hooted. People also rejected it. As a player, I can tell you that proceeding with humiliation is the deepest wound. The player can never forget it, can never bear it. ‘
Insults cannot be tolerated.
Kaif further said, ‘You drop the player. But it is not good for any player to move forward with insult. The player takes it as mental torture. The same thing happened to Hardik Pandya. He continued mental torture. Went to play the World Cup. Where he impressed everyone with his bowling. He took Klassen’s wicket and won the World Cup. Then in the Champions Trophy, he hit a six against Adam Jampa. Kaif described Pandya as a lion. He said, “Pandya performed brilliantly with bat and ball.” He is the lion of the forest that walks alone. If ever a documentary film will be made on them, then people would give examples of what they endured for seven months. We will learn from them how ‘return’ is made in difficult times.
He took the captaincy of Mumbai Indians in place of Rohit.
It is noteworthy that before IPL 2024, Mumbai Indians removed Rohit Sharma from the captaincy and replaced Hardik Pandya as the new captain of the team. Rohit Sharma and fans of Mumbai Indians were very angry with this. Actually, Hardik captained Gujarat Titans for two years. He also won the trophy once and took his team to the finals next year. But when Hardik received a proposal for captaincy from Mumbai, he joined the team. Fans congratulated Hardik on social media. The situation reached here that when Hardik came to play the match on the field, he was hooted there too. Amidst all this, the cold war between Hardik Pandya and Rohit and the rift in the dressing room of Mumbai Indians also came to light.
Failed in IPL 2024
Hardik failed to make an impact as a player and captain in the IPL 2024 season. However, his eyes are on the 2024 T20 World Cup. In the T20 World Cup, Hardik dismissed dangerous Henriqus Klassen in the final match when he was winning South Africa. Apart from this, Hardik also played a big role in the recent Champions Trophy in Dubai. Team India managed to become champions in the India Champions Trophy thanks to Hardik’s brilliant performance.
