Will Mumbai Indians drop Rohit Sharma? Because, if Rohit is retained then will Hardik Pandya have to be dropped? No, we are not saying this, but this question full of tension in front of Mumbai Indians has emerged due to a rule related to IPL retention. Even though the rules related to player retention for IPL 2025 have not been officially announced yet. But, according to media reports, under the rules related to retention, the franchises will not have RTM i.e. Right to Match card this time. At the same time, every franchise can retain 5 players, which will include 3 Indian and 2 foreign players.

Now if the same rules remain even after BCCI's announcement, which have come to light from media reports, then Mumbai Indians' headache will increase. The big question will be which 3 Indian players will it retain and whom will it drop? Because it has Jaspreet Bumrah and Suryakumar Yadav. Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma too. On top of that, the captain is Hardik Pandya, whom it traded from Gujarat Titans for a huge amount.

Rohit or Pandya… who will be out?

Obviously, when the think tank of Mumbai Indians franchise sits down to find a solution for the retention of 3 Indian players, it will get two names quickly but will have to think hard on the third one. There will be no need to think much about the names of the two Indian players to be retained, one of them will be Jaspreet Bumrah and the other will be Suryakumar Yadav. There will be a brainstorm between Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya on the third name.

Who will Mumbai Indians retain?

The question is who will Mumbai Indians retain between Rohit and Pandya? Now it will depend on what the team's think tank wants. On one side there is the captain who has won the IPL the most number of times and on the other side there is the captain who can run the team as well as do wonders with the bat as well as the ball. Now it remains to be seen what decision the Mumbai Indians team management takes in this regard?