India, March 30 -- Mumbai Indians have made an unfavourable start to the fresh IPL season, losing both their opening two games, which left captain Hardik Pandya concerned. After the loss in Chennai against the Super Kings in the opening week, Mumbai lost by 36 runs against Gujarat Titans on Saturday in Ahmedabad. Hardik blamed the batters as he outlined the "basic errors" behind the two losses.

Gujarat dished out a black-soil surface in Ahmedabad, where the top order, led by opener Sai Sudharshan, got the team off to a flying start, scoring 66 runs in the powerplay, before the left-hander scored his second straight fifty in the tournament. Hardik felt MI had lost half the contest in that very phase of the game.

"They batted brilliantly,...