Watch: Rohit Sharma's Message For Fans Booing Hardik Pandya Amid Captaincy Row

Another day in the IPL for Mumbai Indians, and yet again Hardik Pandya felt the crowd's ire. Since he replaced Rohit Sharma as MI skipper, Pandya has been receiving an unprecedented amount of hate on social media and at the ground. This time it happened at the Wankhede Stadium - MI's home ground. Fans started booing the Mumbai Indians skipper as he walked out for the toss in their IPL match against Rajasthan Royals on Monday, even as chants of 'Rohit... Rohit' reverberated across the Wankhede Stadium.

But, with the bat in hand, Pandya managed to get the crowd on his side, quickly turning the jeers into cheers with half a dozen boundaries during a 21-ball 34, which lifted his team from 20/4 to 76/5 in the 10th over, when his entertaining knock came to an end.

In fact, the cheers from around the ground were as loud as any when Pandya smashed his first four, a far cry from the evening's hostile reception.

However, Mumbai Indians lost the match by six wickets after being restricted to 125/9. The 29-year-old Pandya, who replaced Rohit as the captain of the Mumbai Indians in the lead-up to the tournament, has already been subjected to crowd's anger over the franchise's decision regarding leadership during the team's previous two away games at Ahmedabad and Hyderabad.

Pandya was booed by a section of the crowd before the toss when he was doing rounds of the field as a warm-up exercise.

The flamboyant all-rounder was then booed again when his named was announced at the time of the toss, to which Pandya only smiled as loud chants in support of the former Mumbai skipper Rohit filled the venue.

The jeers continued as Pandya began speaking after losing the toss to Rajasthan Royals' skipper Sanju Samson, forcing presenter Sanjay