Why did Suryakumar Yadav replace Hardik Pandya as MI captain?

NEW DELHI: Just moments earlier the toss, broadcasters announced that Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya would not play successful the lucifer against Delhi Capitals astatine the Arun Jaitley Stadium successful Delhi. Seconds aft the announcement, Suryakumar Yadav - smiling, chewing gum, and dressed successful the bluish and golden jersey - walked retired with the squad sheet, shook hands with Ravi Shastri, and past greeted Delhi Capitals skipper Axar Patel.What followed was a large cheer from the Delhi assemblage arsenic they saw their T20 World Cup-winning skipper Surya.The large question was: wherefore was Surya starring the team, and wherefore was Hardik missing specified an important clash?The infinitesimal Axar won the flip and opted to tract against

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, and spoke astir his squad combination, the absorption rapidly shifted to Surya."(Hardik Pandya) He's not well, doesn't look good, truthful helium was not acceptable for today's game.

So conscionable getting into his shoes today," Surya, who was the stand-in skipper for the Delhi Capitals clash, said.

Mumbai Indians began their IPL 2026 run with a six-wicket triumph implicit Kolkata Knight Riders.Mumbai Indians brought successful Deepak Chahar successful spot of Pandya."(On the triumph against KKR) If you triumph the archetypal crippled aft 13-14 years, there's a batch of positivity successful the camp, and we're precise happy, but wholly antithetic venue present from Wankhede.

We person to instrumentality bully work and person a bully crippled here. (On the surface) Looks good, The flip was irrelevant. We wanted to bat first, they wanted to vessel first, but yeah, precise blessed to bat first. Looks bully one. We've done present truly good erstwhile we've batted archetypal and defended.

Quite a fewer changes. Deepak Chahar comes successful for Hardik. Corbin Bosch comes successful for Boulty, that's a tactical change. Boulty had a bully crippled successful the past crippled astatine Wankhede.

And Mitch Santner comes successful for Allah Ghazanfar," Surya said.

Axar went with the aforesaid broadside against Mumbai Indians. "I take to vessel first. First lucifer astatine home, I privation to spot however the wicket is behaving. It looks a spot dry, a spot hard. We chased good successful the past match. To pursuit down the people from 26/ 4 successful the powerplay, it gives a batch of assurance to the group. Even the top-order cognize that determination are batters successful the little bid who tin measurement up if they fail.

Playing a location crippled is ever beneficial. Our DC supporters volition cheer for us. Same team," Axar said.

Teams:Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): KL Rahul(w), Pathum Nissanka, Nitish Rana, Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Vipraj Nigam, Lungi Ngidi, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mukesh KumarMumbai Indians (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton(w), Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Naman Dhir, Sherfane Rutherford, Mitchell Santner, Corbin Bosch, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit BumrahHere are the Impact substitutes for some the teams:Delhi Capitals Impact subs: Ashutosh Sharma, Auqib Nabi Dar, Sameer Rizvi, Dushmantha Chameera, Karun NairMumbai Indians Impact subs: Mayank Markande, Robin Minz, Raj Bawa, Trent Boult, Ashwani Kumar