Delhi Capitals vs Mumbai Indians: Mumbai Indians' poor performance continues in IPL 2024 and the team had to face defeat at the hands of Delhi Capitals in its ninth match. Captain Hardik Pandya looked very disappointed with the defeat of Mumbai team and he blamed his team's left-handed batsmen and said that they did not make much effort to play big shots from left-arm spin bowler Axar Patel.

The 43rd match of the 17th season was played between Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, in which the home team registered a close victory by 10 runs. Batting first, Delhi Capitals scored 257/4, which is also their highest total in IPL history. In response to the target of 258, Mumbai Indians also saw very good batting but the team could only reach the score of 247/9 after playing the entire overs. During this, left-handed batsman Tilak Verma scored the highest score of 63 runs in 32 balls for MI. Hardik Pandya's team has suffered its sixth defeat in the current season and the path ahead has become very difficult for them.

The game is changing in one or two balls – Hardik Pandya

Hardik Pandya said, “This game is getting more and more close. Things were happening in the first few overs. Nowadays the game is changing in one or two balls. Given the kind of game and the pressure there was on the bowlers, We backed ourselves to do that. There were some areas where we could have done better. Honestly, when Axar Patel was bowling, he was on the left. There were arm bowlers and our left-handers could take extra chances and target them. Unfortunately, we lacked awareness.”

At the same time, Hardik defended his decision to bowl first after winning the toss and said that I do not change my decision. This is right.