IPL 2025: The mega auction of IPL 2025 has been completed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In which all the teams have succeeded in forming their team after a lot of effort.
There is more than 3 months left for the IPL to start but the teams have started preparing from now itself. The Mumbai Indians team has launched its jersey for IPL 2025. They have not only launched the jersey but have also made this player the coach of their team.
Hopkinson becomes the new fielding coach of Mumbai Indians in IPL 2025
Let us tell you that Mumbai Indians has appointed England's Carl Hopkinson as the new fielding coach. Carl Hopkinson has previously been the fielding coach of the England team. During his coaching, the England team was part of the coaching staff in the 2019 World Cup at home and the T20 World Cup held in Australia in 2022.
Replaced James Panment
Not only this, he was also the fielding coach of England in the Under 19 World Cup held in 2022 and the England team managed to qualify for the final after many years. However, they had to face defeat at the hands of India.
Before this, James Panment was the fielding coach of Mumbai Indians. He was associated with Mumbai Indians as a fielding coach since 2018. During his coaching, Mumbai were part of the team that won the title consecutively in 2019 and 2020.
Mumbai made many changes in the coaching setup
Mumbai Indians have made many changes in their coaching setup this time. They have also removed their head coach Mark Boucher this time. In his place, Mahela Jayawardene has once again taken over the responsibility of head coach.
Jayawardene was earlier holding the post of MI director in leagues around the world. But Mumbai Indians were not able to win the title even once in this cycle (2022-2024), due to which he is making so many changes in his coaching setup.
Carl Hopkinson's career has been like this
On the other hand, if we talk about Carl Hopkinson's career, he has not played a single international match. He has played 64 matches for Sussex in the first class, in which he has scored 2705 runs in 103 innings at an average of 27.60. During this period, he has scored 3 centuries and 15 half-centuries. His highest score during this period is 139 runs.