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NEW DELHI: Mumbai Indians entered the IPL grounds books for an unwanted crushed successful the 2026 season, becoming conscionable the 2nd squad successful tourney past to usage 3 antithetic captains successful 3 successive matches.The five-time champions endured a hard run plagued by injuries, inconsistent results and repeated enactment changes. Over a span of 3 matches, Suryakumar Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah and
Hardik Pandya
each took complaint of the side.
Before Mumbai Indians, the lone franchise to witnesser a akin captaincy shuffle was Pune Warriors India successful 2013, erstwhile enactment responsibilities were shared by Ross Taylor, Angelo Mathews and Aaron Finch.Mumbai’s enactment changes began aft regular skipper Pandya was ruled retired with a backmost spasm.
He archetypal missed MI’s location fixture against Lucknow Super Giants connected May 4 and was besides unavailable for the clash against Royal Challengers Bengaluru successful Raipur, contempt travelling with the squad. During his absence, Suryakumar stepped successful arsenic captain.Pandya besides skipped the travel to Dharamsala for MI’s six-wicket triumph implicit Punjab Kings. With Suryakumar distant pursuing the commencement of his child, Bumrah became Mumbai Indians’ 3rd skipper of the season.
The all-rounder yet returned to reclaim enactment duties successful the lucifer against Kolkata Knight Riders.Overall, it has been a forgettable play for Mumbai Indians, who crashed retired of the playoff contention aft winning lone 4 of their 12 league games.They began their run connected a affirmative enactment with a six-wicket triumph implicit KKR, but failed to prolong the momentum. Losses against Delhi Capitals, Rajasthan Royals, Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Punjab Kings pushed them onto the backmost ft aboriginal successful the tournament.A ascendant triumph implicit Gujarat Titans concisely revived hopes, but MI erstwhile again mislaid their mode with 3 consecutive defeats against Chennai Super Kings, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings again.Victories aboriginal successful the play against Lucknow Super Giants and Punjab Kings came excessively late, with Mumbai already near with excessively overmuch crushed to retrieve successful the playoff race.
