IPL 2025: Before the mega auction of IPL 2025, Mumbai Indians had made it clear that in the upcoming season also the command of the team will be in the hands of Hardik Pandya. But, before this a bad news has come out for Mumbai. Team captain Hardik will not be able to play the first match of the next season, because BCCI has banned him. So let us tell you about the reason due to which this ban has been imposed on the Captain.

Hardik Pandya will not be able to play the first match of IPL 2025

There is still time for IPL 2025 to start, but before that Mumbai Indians have suffered a big setback. Their captain i.e. Hardik Pandya is going to miss the first match of the upcoming season. The matter is such that Captain Hardik has been banned because of slow over rate.

According to the rules, if slow over rate is found thrice in an IPL season, the team captain is banned for one match and in IPL 2024, Mumbai was found guilty of slow over rate thrice. This is the reason why now Hardik will not be able to play the first match in IPL 2025.

Who will captain?

Now when Hardik Pandya will not be able to play the first match, the question arises that who will captain Mumbai Indians in his absence? Although Mumbai has no dearth of captaincy options. Any player among Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav can handle this responsibility well. But, if reports are to be believed, in Hardik's absence, Surya can be seen captaining the team in IPL 2025.

This is the team of Mumbai Indians

Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Tilak Verma, Trent Boult, Naman Dheer, Robin Minz, Karn Sharma, Ryan Rickleton, Deepak Chahar, Allah Ghazanfar, Will Jacques, Ashwini Kumar, Mitchell Santner, Reece Topley, Srijith Krishna. , S Raju, Beven Jacobs, Arjun Tendulkar, Lizard Williams, Vigresh Puthur, Raj Angad Bawa.