Watch: Lasith Malinga Leaves Chair For Hardik Pandya, Walks Away. Internet Reacts

Nothing seems to be going in Mumbai Indians (MI) captain Hardik Pandya's favour as the franchise suffered their second defeat in as many games of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 match on Wednesday. After a narrow defeat to Gujarat Titans (GT) in their season opener, MI were comprehensively beaten at the expense of SRH, with the hosts registering the biggest-ever team total in the history of the IPL. SRH posted 277-3 to beat MI by 31 runs in a six-hitting festival at the Uppal Stadium. While Hardik has been under the scanner for his captaincy, a video has emerged on social media, claiming that bowling coach Lasith Malinga ignored the MI captain, who went on to sit beside an agitated Kieron Pollard.

The video was shared by several users on social media platform on X.

Im the captain HARDIK
Give me my chair #HardikPandya #pollard#malinga#SRHvMI #MIvsSRH pic.twitter.com/gixxZFj7Qn

Hardik didn't even tried to stop Malinga from getting up and leaving the chair for him. Look at the face of Pollard even he is not comfortable. Pandya doesn't know how to respect seniors. He could have brought new chair #MIvsSRH #SRHvMI #RohitSharma #klaasen #HardikPandya pic.twitter.com/araISohypL

Even Malinga looks unhappy with their new captain. #SRHvMI pic.twitter.com/tmhLGnmgIt

SRH opener Travis Head (62 off 24) and number three Abhishek Sharma (63 off 23) came up with a sensational display of power-hitting that saw the latter snatching the franchise record for the fastest fifty from the Australian within minutes.

Heinrich Klaasen (80 not out off 34 balls) provided the fireworks in the end to help SRH break an 11-year-old record. The previous highest total in IPL was 263 for five achieved by Royal Challengers Bangalore back in 2013. It was