India, April 13 -- Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya is not happy with the way his team has played in the last couple of games of the 2026 Indian Premier League (IPL).

On Sunday night, playing in front of their home supporters at the Wankhede Stadium, they suffered their third successive defeat of this season. Chasing 241 to win, MI could only manage 222/5. You may think they managed to get close to the target in light of an 18-run defeat, but that wasn't the case.

Actually, they were not in the game for a very large part of the second half of their batting innings. Pandya didn't make excuses and admitted they were not playing great cricket in their recent matches.

"I think that was always going to be catch-up. I think it's been the...