Mumbai Indians IPL 2025: Many players are not happy with Hardik Pandya's captaincy. According to a report, along with Rohit, Sachin also wants to remove him from captaincy.
Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya
Source: PTI
Mumbai Indians Captain IPL 2025: Mumbai Indians may be seen with many changes in IPL 2025. The biggest change in this can be regarding captaincy. Hardik Pandya can be removed from captaincy. Suryakumar Yadav can become the new captain in his place. According to a report, many players of the team along with Rohit Sharma are not happy with Pandya's captaincy. Along with this, Sachin Tendulkar is also in favor of making Surya the captain. However, no official information has come out regarding this.
According to a report by Sportsyaari, Rohit's camp has given an ultimatum to the Mumbai Indians team management. Many players including Rohit and Sachin do not want Pandya to remain the captain. If Mumbai still retains Hardik as the captain, then along with Rohit and Surya, fast bowler Jaspreet Bumrah can also leave the team. At present, there is a lot of commotion in the Mumbai camp regarding this.
Mumbai had taken the decision without informing Rohit -
Mumbai brought Hardik Pandya into the team in IPL 2024. Pandya used to play for Gujarat Titans. But he was traded. As soon as Pandya came, Rohit was stripped of the captaincy. If the report is to be believed, Mumbai did not inform Rohit about this. The decision was taken without informing him. Its effect was also seen during Mumbai's matches. Rohit and his fans were very upset with this.
Jay Shah has been in favor of Hardik Pandya -
Hardik Pandya was going to become the captain of Team India in the T20 format. But this could not happen. Surya was given the captaincy in his place. According to the report, Jai Shah was in favor of Pandya. But Ajit Agarkar along with other officials and Rohit were not in favor of this. It was because of Jai Shah that Pandya remained the vice-captain for some time. However, no official information has been found on this.