India, April 20 -- Four months have passed since Mumbai Indians made the official announcement of replacing Hardik Pandya with Rohit Sharma as their captain. An auction took place about a week later and now we are halfway through the league stage of IPL 2024. But the "Why did Mumbai Indians replace Rohit Sharma with Hardik Pandya?" question is still looking for answers among MI loyalists. You can't really fault them, can you? Rohit, after all is the first captain to win five IPL titles. He is the highest run-scorer of the franchise by some distance and is largely the face of their turnaround in the IPL after five disappointing seasons since its inception in 2008.

Then what was the need? Rohit was still going strong. He is still the India...