{"id":170144,"date":"2026-05-20T19:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=170144"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:00:27","slug":"kkr-vs-mi-ipl-2026-hardik-returns-as-mumbai-indians-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=170144","title":{"rendered":"KKR vs MI, IPL 2026: Hardik returns as Mumbai Indians captain"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Hardik Pandya returned as Mumbai Indians captain against Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The all-rounder has been out of action for a while and missed MI\u2019s last four games due to a back spasm. Hardik last played a match on May 2 in his side\u2019s eight-wicket defeat against Chennai Super Kings.<\/p>\n

Suryakumar Yadav led the side in his absence and in the last game against PBKS, Jasprit Bumrah captained the team as Suryakumar was unavailable due to personal reasons.<\/p>\n

MI has endured a season to forget this year, having lost eight games so far and out of contention for the Playoffs.<\/p>\n

Published on May 20, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Hardik Pandya returned as Mumbai Indians captain against Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens on Wednesday night. The all-rounder has been out of action for a while and missed MI\u2019s last four games due to a back spasm. Hardik last played a match on May 2 in his side\u2019s eight-wicket defeat against Chennai Super Kings….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/VIS_0279.JPG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-Igg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}