Mumbai Indians: The mega auction of the 18th season of the Indian Premier League has been completed. All the franchises bid enthusiastically in this mega event that lasted for two days in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. But meanwhile, bad news is coming for the most successful teams in IPL history, Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. One player each from both the franchises has been banned.

These two players were banned

Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya will have to face a ban in the first match of IPL 2025. Under his captaincy last season, Mumbai Indians committed a slow over rate offense in their last match of the group stage. This was his third offense of IPL 2024. In such a situation, Hardik will have to remain banned for one match. Not only this, Chennai Super Kings players have also been banned.

Let us tell you that Chennai Super Kings' all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja has also been banned. But this matter is from 2010. Actually, Jadeja was accused of bargaining with other teams for higher salary, which was later proved. In such a situation, he had to face a ban of one year. However, now there are no allegations against Jaddu and he will be seen rocking for Chennai Super Kings in the next season.

There are a lot of expectations from both the teams

The last season was not good for both Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians. They could not qualify for the playoffs. Chennai Super Kings won 7 out of 14 matches and remained fifth in the points table. The condition of Mumbai (Mumbai Indians) was even worse. They could win only 4 matches and finished at the bottom of the points table. Now it is expected that there will be improvement in their performance in IPL 2025.