Before the IPL 2025 mega auction, Mumbai Indians have released the list of their retained players. The team has retained five players in this list. The IPL 2024 season was not good for Mumbai. The team performed very poorly under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya. However, the team is once again ready for the new season. Due to the controversy with Rohit Sharma, there were speculations that he would leave the team but he has been retained.
Mumbai Indians team last won the IPL title in the year 2020. After which many big changes have been seen in everyone from their coaching staff regarding the upcoming season. The team has dropped many big players this time. Which is no less than a surprise for the fans. If we look at the list of names of players to be retained by Mumbai Indians before the Mega Player Auction, they have retained five players in it. In which the names of Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Verma are included. They have not retained even a single uncapped player.
Whereas Mumbai Indians team has retained all the big players for IPL 2025. Now the biggest question is that which player will be given the captaincy of the team. The year 2024 was very bad for Mumbai Indians under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya and their team stood at 10th i.e. last position. It is believed that the team may change its captain this season. However, it is difficult to say who he should make the captain.
Mumbai gave this amount to retained players
Jasprit Bumrah (18 crore), Suryakumar Yadav (16.35 crore), Hardik Pandya (16.35 crore), Rohit Sharma (16.3 crore), Tilak Verma (8 crore).