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This photo of Hardik Pandya and Mumbai Indians head coach Mahela Jayawardene is a press conference of March 19.
In IPL 2025, Mumbai Indians will start their campaign with a match against Chennai Super Kings. Mumbai will captain Mumbai in this match. Regular captain Hardik Pandya is banned for a match. This ban is due to slow over rate in the previous season itself. It has been implemented in the first match of the Mumbai team of this season. However, from the next match, Pandya will again take charge of the team.
At the same time, fast bowler Jasprit will not play the opening match of Bumrah League. Mumbai Indians head coach Mahela Jayawardene has described the absence of Jaspreet Bumrah as a challenge for the team.
Pandya gave information about making Surya captain Pandya himself has given this information about handing over the captaincy to Surya. He held a press conference with Head Coach Mahela Jayawardene on 19 March. Meanwhile, Pandya said, ‘Surya is the captain of the Indian T20 team at this time. In such a situation, in my absence, he is also the right candidate for its (captaincy).
Bumrah is currently rehab Jayawardene said at the press conference on Wednesday, Bumrah is currently rehabping at the Center of Excellence in Bangalore. We have to wait for feedback about them. At present, everything is going well, recovering day by day. He further said, they are in good condition. However, their not playing is a challenge for the team.
Bumrah was injured in BGT’s last match Bumrah was injured in BGT’s last Test match. He was also out of the Bumrah Champions Trophy due to lower back injury. Mayank Yadav was injured in the previous IPL. Since then, he has played only 3 domestic and international matches. They are disturbed by muscle stretch.
Mi’s first 2 matches at Away Ground The IPL-2025 will begin on 22 March in Kolkata. The first match of this season will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore. The Mumbai team will launch the campaign against Chennai Super Kings in Chepock on 23 March. Then on March 29, he will play from Gujarat Titans (GT) in Ahmedabad.
Mi’s first domestic match will be against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on 31 March. After this, the team will play in Lucknow from Lucknow Super Giants on 4 April and Royal Challengers from Bangalore (RCB) on 7 April in Mumbai.