Mumbai Indians head coach Mark Boucher has opened up about the decision why the franchise decided to replace Rohit Sharma with Hardik Pandya for the forthcoming IPL edition.
‘I think it was purely a cricketing decision. We saw the window period to get Hardik back as a player. For me it’s a transition phase.
A lot of people don’t understand in India, people get quite emotional But you know you take the emotions away from it. I think it’s just more of a cricketing decision that was made and I do think it is going to bring the best out of Rohit as a person as a player. Just let him go out and enjoy and score some good runs,’ Mark Boucher says on Smash Sports podcast.
‘I mean one of the things I have spoken about is when you arrive at the IPL and he (Chris Morris) will be able to tell you as well that there’s a lot of stuff going on, there’s photoshoots and this and that and a lot of emphasis is not actually on the cricket. It’s more about the advertising and all that sort of stuff,’ says Boucher.
Boucher stressed out on the point that captaincy was taking a toll on Rohit.