Simon Doull exposes Mumbai Indians dressing room chaos, deflects blame from Hardik Pandya: ‘Full of alphas’

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Jasprit Bumrah once again went wicketless, conceded 54 runs in four overs, with an economy of 13.50. In the first innings too, senior player Suryakumar Yadav managed only five runs off five balls, before losing his wicket to Eshan Malinga. Even Tilak Varma registered only seven off five deliveries. Rickelton was key, slamming 123* off 55 balls, packed with 10 fours and eight sixes, striking at 223.64. He remained unbeaten.

“I think the fingers will point to everyone. It starts with the team from a performance point of view. Then it goes to leadership, then upstairs. From an auction point of view, I think they got it right. It looked like a great team on paper. One year is a blip, two years is a concern, three years, that's pretty bad. That's time for change,” he said.

"When they were in their pomp before the new teams came in, it was like a pride of lions, and Hardik was a cub. He was a cub that played a role in the pride of lions. He went away, did a great job at GT with a very new franchise, a franchise that he could kind of own and control. He came back and basically tried to fight the king of the pride for the reigning job, the king's job and it hasn't worked. It just has not worked and so there's got to be some accountability from the very top because the very top made that decision.

"They gave him that responsibility and they allowed him to come back into what they had was a very successful team and a successful franchise. Now in that dressing room, in that environment, you've got four blokes who can all be the king. You have four guys who have all captained their country at different stages. So it's a very difficult room, it's full of alphas. It's a difficult room if things aren't going well."

"The ownership, director of cricket, and manager have got to take the responsibility for what has happened in the last three years", he further added.

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