Mumbai Indians: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has issued a new rule regarding retention before IPL 2025. Under this, all the teams can retain 5-5 players and in this series, the team of Mumbai Indians is also included for whom the coming season is not going to be easy.

Mumbai team includes many great players. In such a situation, it is going to be a challenge for them as to which players they should retain. However, they have released 20 players and this includes names ranging from wicketkeeper batsman Ishan Kishan to Arjun Tendulkar.

Ishan Kishan and Arjun Tendulkar may also be released

If we talk about Ishan Kishan, he is being considered as the future of Indian cricket but due to controversies for some time, he could not perform well in IPL 2024. This is the reason why the Mumbai Indians franchise can release him.

Apart from this, Arjun Tendulkar, son of former great Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar can also be released. Arjun has been with the team for the last many years but when he got a chance to play in IPL 2024, he could not do anything special and for this reason the Mumbai franchise can also release him.

These 20 players can be released

Mumbai Indians team will release 20 players tomorrow before IPL 2025 because this time only five players can be retained. In such a situation, many veteran players can also be released this time and many big names are included in it.

It is mandatory for all the franchises to retain one uncapped player along with four capped players before this auction and in this sequence, Mumbai team is going to release 20 players.

This list includes Tim David, Dewald Brewis, Naman Dheer, Shivalik Sharma, Shams Mulani, Shreyas Gopal, Romario Shepherd, Kumar Karthikeya, Mohammad Nabi, Arjun Tendulkar, Ishan Kishan, Harvik Desai, Piyush Chawla, Anshul Kamboj, Gerald Coetzee, Akash Madhwal. , Nuwan Thushara, Kwena Mafaka, Luke Wood.

5 players can be retained

If we talk about the players to be retained, then captain Hardik Pandya can also be included in it. Hardik was made the captain of Mumbai Indians last year and in such a situation, he can be seen captaining the team this time too.

In this series, the names of Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma and Nehal Badhera can be included in the list of players to be retired.