Mumbai Indians (MI) are facing heavy criticism from the fans after removing their five-time IPL winning captain Rohit Sharma and including Hardik Pandya in the team. A report said that as soon as this news came out, some fans started unfollowing MI on the Instagram app. MI lost 1.5 lakh followers within a day of announcing the new captain. Hardik was bought by Mumbai from Gujarat Titans (GT) in a cash deal. He spent two years as captain at GT and was reportedly ready to rejoin MI if he was given the captaincy.