Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Verma
The Mumbai Indians team will take the first match to play the first match without its captain Hardik Pandya in the 18th season of the Indian Premier League. In such a situation, there was a discussion for the last several days that which player would get the responsibility of captaincy for the first match. Now Hardik Pandya himself has disclosed this in the pre-season press conference on behalf of Mumbai Indians. Hardik Pandya was sentenced to a match ban due to a slow over rate after the last match of Mumbai Indians in the last IPL season, which he would not be able to play the first match of this season.
Hardik confirmed Suryakumar Yadav captaincy
The IPL 2025 season will begin from March 22, in which the team of Mumbai Indians will take their first match against the team of Chennai Super Kings on 23 March. Hardik Pandya made it clear in response to a question asked about the captaincy of Mumbai Indians in the first match at the pre-season press conference that Suryakumar Yadav would be seen leading the team. Hardik said in his reply that Suryakumar Yadav is currently the captain of the Indian T20 team and in such a situation, Surya is the best suitable for captaining the Mumbai Indians team when he will be seen doing this responsibility in the match against Chennai Super Kings.
I am lucky that there are three big captains in my team
Hardik Pandya, who took over the captaincy of the Mumbai Indians team last season, had to face a lot of criticism at that time. At the same time, in the pre-season press conference, he said in his statement that he considers himself very lucky who will be seen playing three big captains in his team, including the names of Rohit, Surya and Bumrah, who will continuously give important suggestions to me at the necessary time.
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