MUMBAI, India, (CMC) — Batting coach for the Mumbai Indians, Kieron Pollard has admitted that the team’s performance in the 2026 Indian Premier League (IPL) fell well short of expectations.

Mumbai Indians placed ninth in the 10-team tournament, mustering just eight points from their 14 matches, and with only four wins.

Speaking after their 30-run defeat to the Rajasthan Royals in their final match on Sunday, Pollard conceded that the team failed to deliver.

“If this had happened, if we had done this, if we had done that, if we had played this one, if we had batted — it’s a bit of that [type of reflection taking place now],” Pollard said at the press conference after the game.

“Overall, it has been disappointing for all of us as Mumbai Indians. I’m sure the fans and everyone would have felt the same — and there’s no hiding from that. We weren’t good the entire tournament. We weren’t able to sort of string together wins and use the momentum when we got it.”

The former West Indies all-rounder said the team would perform a postmortem at a later date to determine what went wrong.

“Right now is not the time and place to talk about that [postmortem]. All these things will be sort of emotional decisions and thinking of every aspect of what’s needed.

“Everyone needs that time and space to go, sit down, recollect, have a fair idea and assessment as to where it went wrong for us. That’s 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, I think that will be irresponsible from a management perspective,” Pollard said.

“Guys are going to sit back and actually think about what’s needed. It has been a while since we won the championship, and that’s something that we have accepted as a team and, [as] I said, another disappointing campaign adding to what would have transpired before. So deep thinking is going to go into it.”