Mumbai, April 15 -- Mumbai Indians versus Punjab Kings at Wankhede is not just another IPL fixture. It is the kind of evening where reputations wobble, confidence inflates, and old habits of Indian cricket return to the surface like stubborn monsoon puddles.
Mumbai Indians, the five-time champions, arrive here like a heavyweight boxer suddenly unsure of his footing. Three straight defeats have turned them from feared finishers into anxious survivors. And after the third loss to Royal Challengers Bengaluru, skipper Hardik Pandya has spoken of a "revamp" in approach, an admission that something deeper than form needs fixing. It is less a tactical adjustment and more a quiet acknowledgment that the machine is misfiring.
Hardik now finds hims...