Hardik Pandya: The retained list of all the teams for IPL 2025 has been revealed. At the end of this month, a mega auction for IPL 2025 is to be organized in Dubai. Mumbai Indians have spent the most money for IPL 2025. Nita Ambani's franchise has spent Rs 74.95 crore out of its purse of Rs 120 crore. The franchise now has only Rs 45 crores and within that they have to build their entire team, while the franchise also wants to buy Tim David using RTM.

On one hand, Mumbai Indians are worried about making their team in the IPL auction, while on the other hand, the biggest problem for the team is regarding captain Hardik Pandya, who will not play his first match. One match of Hardik Pandya is going to cost Mumbai Indians approximately Rs 1 crore.

Hardik Pandya has been banned for 1 match

Hardik Pandya will be the captain of Mumbai Indians. Some time ago, team coach Mahela Jayawardene has confirmed that Hardik Pandya will be the captain of Mumbai Indians for IPL 2025. At the same time, BCCI has imposed a ban of 1 match due to slow over rate in the last match played against Lucknow Super Giants in the last season.

In such a situation, Hardik Pandya will not be able to play the first match of IPL 2025 for Mumbai Indians. Hardik Pandya's performance as a captain and player was very poor in IPL 2025, but the franchise does not cheat its players, which is why the franchise retained Hardik along with Rohit Sharma and kept him as their captain again.

Who will be the new captain of Mumbai Indians in place of Hardik Pandya?

If Hardik Pandya is not seen playing in the first match of IPL 2025, then who will be seen captaining Mumbai Indians in his place is a big question. Even in the absence of Hardik Pandya, Mumbai Indians do not need to worry much, because the team has Rohit Sharma, who won the T20 World Cup for India.

India's new T20 captain Suryakumar Yadav is also present with Mumbai Indians, apart from this, Jasprit Bumrah, who captained Team India against England, is also present. Mumbai Indians also have their future captain Tilak Verma, but when it comes to the captain, in the absence of Hardik Pandya, only Suryakumar Yadav can be seen captaining the Mumbai Indians.