MI finished the season in ninth place with only four wins in 14 league matches.
Despite a resilient 60 off 42 balls from Suryakumar Yadav and thirties from Will Jacks (33) and Hardik Pandya (34), MI’s innings was restricted to 175/9 in the chase of 206 runs.
With this outcome, the five-time champions finished ninth on the 10-team points table, managing only four wins in their 14 league matches.
After the loss, MI batting coach Kieron Pollard addressed the media, wherein he admitted that Pandya's captaincy fell short of expectations.
“From a leadership perspective on Hardik, yes, it has not gone as well as he would have wanted as an individual," Pollard told reporters.
“It might not have gone how we would have wanted as a management staff. But one thing you (should) know that we have tried everything to give him the best opportunity to lead the franchise, to do well," he added.
However, Pollard called for collective accountability rather than pointing individual fingers at the player.
“No one is going to sit here and put blame on point fingers. When you lose, especially, you have to look at it from a collective perspective. You win some, you lose some. But, at the end of the day, I wouldn’t question certain things," Pollard stated.
“He (Pandya) was trying; we all were trying, and it just didn’t work out for us. You sit, you talk, (and) see what is (for the) best. Never know what is going to happen. For us, let us just lick our wounds in (this) time and hopefully come back stronger in the 12 months," he remarked.
Pollard indicated that the management will take time to review the campaign calmly and rationally rather than making changes right away.
“Right now, it’s not the time and place to talk about that," Pollard said. “All these things would be sort of emotional decisions and thinking of every aspect of what is needed; everyone needs that time and space to go sit down, recollect, have a fair assessment as to where everything actually went wrong for us."
“That is where better decision-making is going to come about. If you sit here right now and say you need to do this, you need to do that, that would be irresponsible from a management perspective," he concluded.