IPL 2024: Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya bangs railing after fans chant ‘Rohit Rohit’ at him | Watch video here
players and urged fans to respect them. Without mentioning Pandya's name, Sonu wrote on X, “We should respect our players. Players who made us proud, players who made our country proud.
One day you cheer for them, next day you boo them. It's not they, it's us who fail. I love cricket.
I love every cricketer who represents my country. Doesn't matter which franchise he plays for. Doesn't matter whether he plays as a Captain or he's the 15th man in a team.
They are our Heroes" Australia's batting maestro, Steven Smith has also recommended Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya to "block out" all the noise and boos that he has received from the fans so far. While speaking on ESPNcricinfo's TimeOut show, he said, “I'd try and just say, to block it out, it's all irrelevant. No one outside knows what you are going through.
No one [from outside] is in that change room." "Personally, for me, it doesn't bother me. I don't care. I don't pay any attention.
You know it's all white noise, but certainly players do hear things and everyone's entitled to their own emotions and how they respond to those," Smith said."So is it affecting him [Hardik]? Maybe. It's possible. He probably hasn't experienced that before in, in any walk of life.
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