Why Hardik Pandya is not playing in MI vs LSG IPL 2026 match

Hardik Pandya did not play for Mumbai Indians successful their IPL 2026 lucifer against Lucknow Super Giants astatine the Wankhede Stadium successful Mumbai connected Monday.Suryakumar Yadav came retired for the flip successful his spot and said that Hardik was unwell.

Later, Mumbai Indians confirmed that the skipper was dealing with backmost spasms.Suryakumar, who has been nether disapproval for his signifier this season, was seen interacting with LSG skipper Rishabh Pant astatine the toss. He said helium was filling successful for Hardik.“He is not good tonight, truthful I'm conscionable going into his shoes,” said Suryakumar astatine the toss.Mumbai Indians person had a dilatory commencement to the play and are presently ninth connected the points array with 4 points, the aforesaid arsenic Lucknow Super Giants, who are astatine the bottom.

Hardik has besides struggled this play with some bat and ball. He has scored 146 runs successful 8 innings astatine an mean of 20.85 and a onslaught complaint of 136.44.With skipper Hardik Pandya sitting out, Mumbai Indians won the flip and elected to vessel archetypal against Lucknow Super Giants.With Pandya out, the Mumbai Indians brought successful Corbin Bosch successful spot of Trent Boult, portion Rohit Sharma is backmost successful the premix aft an wounded interruption and made it to the Impact Bench.

Lucknow Super Giants besides made immoderate changes successful their Playing XI, handing a debut to Josh Inglis portion Mukul Choudhary made mode for Akshat Raghuwanshi. TeamsMumbai Indians (Playing XI): Ryan Rickelton(w), Naman Dhir, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Tilak Varma, Will Jacks, Raj Bawa, Corbin Bosch, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah, AM Ghazanfar, Raghu SharmaImpact Player options for MI - Rohit Sharma, Mayank Rawat, Robin Minz, Shardul Thakur, and Trent Boult.Lucknow Super Giants (Playing XI): Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Josh Inglis, Nicholas Pooran, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Himmat Singh, Mohammed Shami, Mohsin Khan, Avesh Khan, Prince YadavImpact Player options for LSG - Manimaran Siddharth, Digvesh Singh, Mayank Yadav, Shahbaz Ahamad, and Abdul Samad.