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IPL 2025, Mumbai Indians: The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season will begin in Kolkata on 22 March. While the final match will be played on 25 May. The first match will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) at the Eden Gardens.

Just before the debut of the IPL, the Mumbai Indians (Mi) franchise has announced the name of the new captain for its opening match. He has handed over the command to Suryakumar Yadav in place of Hardik Pandya.

Hardik Pandya himself gave this information

Let us know that Mumbai has to play their first match against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on 23 March. This match will be held in Chennai itself. Pandya will not land in this match. He is banned with a match.

Actually, this ban on Pandya was due to the 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 once again take charge of the team.

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).

The captaincy was last handled in 2023

The last time Surya took the command of the Mumbai team in the 2023 season. Rohit Sharma was the captain then and Surya took the front in his absence. The match was won by Mumbai, in which Surya scored 43 runs off 25 balls. In this match, Rohit came down to opening as an impact player and could only score 20 runs in 13 balls.