The preparation phase has started in the camp of Mumbai Indians regarding IPL 2025. BCCI has made a rule that now only a maximum of 5 players will be retained by a franchise, while one player can be included in the squad under the Right to Match Card rule.

In such a situation, the equation seems to be getting spoiled for Mumbai Indians. The fact is that, in the last few years, the performance of the players of Mumbai Indians has been of top class and now if the players have to be retained under the new retention policy, then the team will completely disintegrate.

Mumbai Indians stuck in the trap of new retention policy

Under the new retention policy, now the franchise will have to retain the first player for Rs 18 crores, while the second player will have to spend Rs 14 crores. While the third player will be joining the squad for a price of Rs 11 crore, the fourth and fifth players will be seen joining the team for a price of Rs 18 and 11 crore respectively. Apart from this, the team can decide to include a player under the Right to Match card.

In such a situation, the equations look very difficult for Mumbai Indians because Mumbai team has strong players like Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya and Suryakumar Yadav. Now the headache of management may increase regarding which of these players will be retained and which one will be released.

Mumbai Indians can release this player

Mumbai has players like Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya. All these players deserve high prices. For this reason, it is very difficult for these players to return. If media reports are to be believed, team captain Hardik Pandya may be shown the way out by the management of Mumbai Indians. Whereas Suryakumar and Bumrah can be added to the team for a price of Rs 18 crore each. Rohit Sharma can also be retained by the Mumbai squad.

Mumbai's squad was something like this

Rohit Sharma, Dewald Brewis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Verma, Tim David, Harvik Desai, Arjun Tendulkar, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Karthikeya, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Jason Behrendorff, Romario Shepherd, Hardik Pandya. (Captain), Gerald Coetzee, Dilshan Madushanka, Shreyas Gopal, Nuwan Thushara, Naman Dheer, Anshul Kamboj, Mohammad Nabi, Shivalik Sharma.

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