CRICKET NEWS: Preparations for Indium Premier League 2025 have already started. Many decisions were taken in the IPL Governing Council meeting held on Saturday. Important decisions were taken ranging from uncapped players, RTM, players retention, match fees and franchise purse. Now the 18th season of the league will start in the last week of March 2025 or the first week of April 2025. It has already been decided that Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya will not be able to play the first match of IPL 2025.
A mistake was made last season
Actually, Hardik Pandya made a big mistake in the last match of IPL 2024. His team Mumbai Indians could not complete 20 overs in the stipulated time. Last season, Hardik made this mistake for the third time. In such a situation, after the match ended, a fine of Rs 30 lakh and a ban of 1 match was imposed on Hardik Pandya. In this match, Mumbai Indians faced Lucknow Super Giants.
Hardik Pandya was opposed
Before the start of IPL 2024, Hardik Pandya was made the captain of Mumbai Indians. He had replaced Rohit Sharma. Mumbai Indians traded Hardik Pandya to Gujarat Titans. However, the fans did not like this decision of the franchise.
He had opposed it from social media to the field. Hardik Pandya had to face the anger of the fans during the match and outside the field. The performance of Mumbai Indians was very poor under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya. The team played 14 matches in the 17th season and won only 4. The team was at the last position in the points table with 8 points.
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