Hardik Pandya: All the teams have released their retention list for the Indian Premier League 2025, in which Mumbai Indians have retained their five star players. Hardik Pandya, who was the captain of the team last season, is included in this list. Pandya) are also included. But along with this retention, Hardik has also been banned. In this article we will tell you why Hardik Pandya has been banned.
Mumbai retained these five players
The Mumbai Indians team, which was in controversies last year, has released the retention list for its upcoming IPL 2025. The names of the star players of the team are included in this list. The franchise has first retained Yorker King Jasprit Bumrah for Rs 18 crore. After this, the team has retained Suryakumar Yadav and last season’s captain Hardik Pandya for Rs 16.35 crore.
Rohit Sharma, who has won the IPL trophy five times for Mumbai Indians, has also been retained by the team for Rs 16.30 crore. Although there were reports that Rohit may leave MI and join some other franchise, but putting an end to all these rumours, the team has retained him. After this, the last name in the list is that of Tilak Verma, who has been retained by the franchise for Rs 8 crores.
Hardik banned
There was a lot of anger over Hardik Pandya rejoining Mumbai Indians from Gujarat Titans in the last IPL season. Let us tell you that Hardik was made the captain of Mumbai Indians in IPL 2024, after which Hardik Pandya was trolled a lot by the fans of MI and Rohit.
Also, captain Hardik Pandya has been banned for slow over rate. According to BCCI rules, if any captain repeats this mistake three times, he gets banned for one match. Hardik had repeated this mistake for the third time in the last league of the last season, due to which he has been banned for the first match of the next IPL season i.e. IPL 2025.
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