One of the most successful teams of the Indian Premier League, the new season has not been good for Mumbai Indians. In their first match of IPL 2025, 5 -time champion Mumbai had to face defeat at the hands of 5 -time champion Chennai Super Kings. Now in the second match, the team is competing with Gujarat Titans. The news of relief for Mumbai in this match is that captain Hardik Pandya is returning but for him the most concern is the 'solar eclipse' going on for 167 days. This solar eclipse is on the team's star batsman and the captain of the first match Suryakumar Yadav.

The last 4 consecutive seasons have not proved to be special for Mumbai Indians. During this time, the team has been at the last position 2 times. In the last season, the same situation happened to the team when she was the last place in 10 teams. But despite the failure of the team in all these season, the bat of his biggest batsman Suryakumar Yadav was continuously rising. On this basis, he was able to make his place in Team India as well and proved to be the most successful batsman in international cricket.

Silent Suryakumar's bat for last 167 days

But for the last few months, this magnificent form of Suryakumar is seen as an eclipse. Since the captaincy of Team India last year, Surya's bat is seen falling silent. Especially for the last about 6 months, he has proved to be a flop in this format and it also included the first match of IPL 2025, in which he was captaining the team.

Statistics show that Suryakumar Yadav has played 9 T20 matches in the last 167 days and has not been able to score half -centuries even once. The previous half -century from the bat of veteran Indian batsman came against Bangladesh on 12 October 2024. His biggest score in the 9 T20 match played since then was 29 runs, which came in the first match of IPL against Chennai, while during this time he could not even open an account.

Will 'Eclipse' be removed against Gujarat?

Such form of Suryakumar Yadav, who has become famous for playing any shot in any part of the ground in the T20 format, is really a problem for Mumbai. However, Surya and her team will expect that they return to form as soon as possible and there can be no better than the match against Gujarat Titans for this. Against this team, Surya has scored 200 runs from an average of 4 innings 66.66 and the strike race of 181.81. That is, Surya may return from the second match. And if they fail this time too, then the journey of the former champion team is going to be very painful in this season too.