Sachin Tendulkar, Mumbai Indians (MI) great and now mentor, has described T20 as a "cruel" format in which small margins are vital, and has urged that the five-time IPL champions must go out and win the crucial moments to stop their freefall.

The ongoing IPL 2022 season has been a disaster for the Mumbai Indians, as the Rohit Sharma-led team is still without a win, having lost all seven of their games thus far.

"Let's first understand that in this format there isn't a team who has not experienced what Mumbai Indians have experienced this season," Tendulkar told Matthew Hayden during a chat on 'Star Sports'.

"This format can be cruel. And those crucial moments in a match which don't go in your favour then literally the margin is like… you lose a game by two or three runs or sometimes even the last ball.

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"And those smaller margins, we need to go out and conquer those moments, those crunch moments in the match are what we have to win. And they haven't gone our way," he said.

The cricket legend stated that the players, particularly the younger ones, will take some time to adjust.

"I would like to clarify one more point: in spite of having had a challenging season the boys have gone out and worked as hard as possibly they could during their practice sessions.

"This is a new team, a young team. It may take a little more time to settle down, but these phases are such where you have to ride through these phases, stick together as a team and find the solution."

(With PTI inputs)