IPL 2025: The schedule of IPL 2025 has been announced. From March 22, the 18th season of the league will begin, the first match will be between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore. At the same time, the team of Mumbai Indians will play their first match with Chennai Super Kings on 23 March. But, Hardik Pandya will not be able to participate in this match due to ban. In such a situation, the question arises that who will captain Mi?

Why will Hardik Pandya miss the first match of IPL 2025?

After the mega auction of IPL 2025, Mumbai Indians made it clear that Hardik Pandya will be the captain of the team. But, he is going to miss the first match of the upcoming season due to the ban. In fact, in their last match of 2024 against Lucknow Super Giants, Mumbai Indians team was a victim of slow over rate.

Due to this, Hardik Pandya was banned for a match. According to the IPL rules, the IPL rule is that due to the slow over rate, only 2 matches are imposed in the first 2 matches, but if this happens for the third time, then the team captain gets a fine as well as a match on a match. .

Who can captain Mumbai Indians?

Mumbai Indians have retained their core team for IPL 2025. Now that Hardik Pandya cannot play his first match in IPL 2025, who will take the command of the team in his place? This question is in everyone's mind.

The team has 3 such players in the team as Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav and Jaspreet Bumrah, who are seen claiming this responsibility. However, according to the reports, Rohit can be assigned this responsibility, because he is one of the most successful captains of the IPL and he has won 5 trophy to Mumbai under his captaincy.