India, April 5 -- Mumbai Indians owner Akash Ambani was in disbelief when MI captain Hardik Pandya turned down a single to Mitchell Santner in the last over of their IPL 2025 match against Lucknow Super Giants. Mi needed 14 runs off 4 balls then. A single would have brought it down to 13 off 3. Hardik failed to hit sixes in the next balls and reluctantly took a single off the penultimate ball when the match was already over. He even threw his bat in frustration after realising the match had slipped out of MI's grasp.

Needing 22 runs off six balls, Hardik started the over by hitting Avesh Khan's low full toss for a six over extra cover. The next ball was flicked through mid-wicket for a couple. MI needed boundaries and Hardik felt he was ...