Hardik Pandya: IPL 2025 is going to start just 3 days from now. But before that, five -time IPL champions Mumbai Indians have taken a big decision. Before the start of the new season, the team has once again changed the captaincy. Taking responsibility for captaincy with Hardik Pandya, someone else has been given this role in his place. Hardik himself has confirmed this. Who has got this role now. Let's know

Another player will captain Mumbai Indians instead of Hardik Pandya

It is known that Mumbai Indians will start their IPL 2025 campaign by playing a match against Chennai Super Kings from 23 March. But Hardik Pandya is not going to play in this match. That is, he will not captain Mumbai in the match. In fact, Pandya will face the punishment of a match ban on him for a bad over-rate in the final match of the previous edition of IPL. Due to this, he will not be able to play in the match against Chennai. Suryakumar Yadav has been made the captain of MI (Mumbai Indians) in his place and in his absence. Hardik himself has confirmed this.

Pandya announced its own

Hardik Pandya (Hardik Pandya) confirmed this at a pre-season press conference on Wednesday (March 19) and said that Surya is an ideal candidate to take over the team in his absence. Hardik said, "Suryakumar Yadav is India's T20 captain. Therefore, it is ideal to take command of the Mumbai team in my absence in the first match against CSK."

🚨 Captain Suryakumar Yadav 🚨

- Hardik Pandya Confirms Surya will captain Mumbai Indians in the first match against CSK in IPL 2025. pic.twitter.com/gbschixayo

- Tanuj Singh (@imtanujsingh) March 19, 2025

The incident took place in the match against LSG

Significantly, in the last season, Mumbai Indians faced Lucknow Super Giants in their last league phase match and lost the match by 18 runs. In terms of poor over speed in that match, this was his third crime in the season and, according to the rules, a match was banned on the captain.

Since Mumbai Indians failed to qualify for the playoffs, Hardik (Hardik Pandya) has been eliminated from his first match of IPL 2025 (IPL 2025). The same is true for Suryakumar Yadav. He also led Mumbai Indians once before during the 2023 edition of IPL and won that match.