Hardik Pandya: The buzz of IPL 2025 has already started to be heard. Preparations have already started in every camp. The mega auction for IPL 2025 is going to be held on 24-25 November. But before this auction, a mountain of troubles has fallen on Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya.
He has been banned for the upcoming IPL season even before the mega auction. What is the full news, let's know-
Hardik Pandya banned
Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya has been banned even before the start of IPL 2025. Let us tell you that Hardik was banned for the first match of the upcoming season due to slow over rate in the last season. Actually, the last season of Mumbai Indians did not go well at all.
Let us tell you that according to the rules of the IPL Governing Council, if a captain has a slow over rate in three matches, then that captain is fined Rs 30 lakh each for all three matches and banned for one match. This is the reason why Hardik has been banned for one match. In the last match of IPL 2024, Hardik Pandya's Mumbai Indians could not bowl their 20 overs on time, due to which he has been banned for the first match of this IPL season.
Hardik Pandya will be seen captaining in 2025
Last year, Hardik was made the captain of MI, after which Hardik was trolled a lot by the fans and its effect was also seen on Mumbai's performance. After which it was being speculated that Hardik would be removed from the captaincy in IPL 2025. However, nothing like this has happened. Let us tell you that in IPL 2025 also Hardik Pandya will be seen captaining Mumbai Indians. The team has announced this.
These 5 players were retained in MI
Let us tell you that on the evening of 31 October, all the franchises have released their retention list for IPL 2025. In which Mumbai Indians have retained Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma and Tilak Verma in the team.
