{"id":7930,"date":"2023-12-18T11:17:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T05:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=383831"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T05:51:46","slug":"fans-burn-mumbai-indians-flag-amid-rohit-sharmas-replacement-as-skipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/fans-burn-mumbai-indians-flag-amid-rohit-sharmas-replacement-as-skipper\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans burn Mumbai Indians flag amid Rohit Sharma\u2019s replacement as skipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #252525\">The change in captaincy for the Mumbai Indians has ignited a wave of protest from the fans, who eagerly want to see Rohit Sharma lead the side. Hitman, who led the Mumbai Indians to lift the IPL cup on several occasions, has been replaced by his subordinate, Hardik Pandya.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">Hardik Pandya was bought back from the Gujarat Titans by MI in an exchange treaty. Fans who were excited to see Pandya back in Mumbai quickly changed to hatred as he took over Sharma\u2019s captaincy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">Fans were outraged so badly that some even burned the flag of the Mumbai Indians, stating that the most loved IPL franchise would become the most hated franchise in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jyran45\/status\/1736602469415952527\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-383833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-18-110941.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is clear that the MI fans wants Rohit back as their captain and why not when the Hitman has proved the legacy of staying at the top of the IPL chart with the most number of cups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The change in captaincy for the Mumbai Indians has ignited a wave of protest from the fans, who eagerly want\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":30819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[143,3720,286],"class_list":["post-7930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","category-ipl","tag-hardik-pandya","tag-ipl-2024","tag-mumbai-indians"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}