Hardik Pandya is the captain of Mumbai Indians for the 2025 IPL season. While he is the confirmed leader for the season, Suryakumar Yadav stood in as captain for the team's opening match against Chennai Super Kings on March 23, 2025, due to a one-match suspension incurred by Hardik in 2024.
The 2025 season was the 18th season for the Indian Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians. They were one of the ten teams that competed in the 2025 Indian Premier League (IPL). They finished in tenth place in the previous season. The team was captained by Hardik Pandya and coached by Mahela Jayawardene.
However, the team management decided to stick with Hardik as the captain for the 2025 IPL campaign. Hardik, who is currently the world No. 1 in the ICC Men's T20I Rankings for all-rounders, comes into the new season after a string of successes.
Former India cricketer Irfan Pathan feels that Shubman Gill does have the capability to become the next Virat Kohli. Gill has been positioned as the next all-format star for India, assuming the role of captain of both the Test and ODI teams. The 26-year-old even took Kohli's No.
The decision appears to be a mix of strategy and necessity, with Rohit battling both a nagging knee injury and a worrying dip in form. The 2025 IPL season has not been kind to the MI veteran.
Shubman Gill is India's newly appointed Test captain, replacing Rohit Sharma. At 25 years old, he's the 37th Test captain and one of the youngest to hold this position. Gill has had an impressive cricketing career, scoring 208 in ODIs against New Zealand and 126 in T20Is against the same team.
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Kohli has been on a break since the completion of the Indian Premier League 2025 (IPL 2025), having retired from Tests and ODIs. The star batter will now only play ODIs as he's next set to feature in the three-match ODI series against Australia in October. . . .
MI London have retained England all-rounders Sam Curran and Will Jacks for the 2026 men's Hundred, while also signing England batter Danni Wyatt-Hodge for the women's competition. Curran, 27, will captain the franchise, who were known as Oval Invincibles until their recent takeover.
Boucher highlighted the non-cricketing part of the IPL as one of the reasons behind this decision, asserting he wanted to Rohit to have fewer responsibilities on his shoulders and enjoy his time as a batter after struggling to give his best with the bat over the last couple of seasons.
**Rohit Sharma (MI)** – 5 titles (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020), making him the most successful captain in IPL history overall, even though he's Indian. His ability to lead MI to the top every season has been remarkable.
Suryakumar Yadav will lead Mumbai Indians (MI) in their opening game of IPL 2025, with regular captain Hardik Pandya out serving the one-match ban he picked up in the team's last IPL 2024 game.
In the 18 seasons played till 2025, 72 players have captained their team in at least one match. Mumbai Indians' Rohit Sharma and Chennai Super Kings's MS Dhoni are the most successful captains with five IPL titles each. Dhoni also holds the records for most matches (229) and most wins (134) as a captain.
Rohit, who has retired from T20Is and Tests and was removed from ODI captaincy earlier this year, continues to play the 50-over format and would like to end his career with one final attempt at the 2027 World Cup.
Jaiswal strikes at 164.31, significantly higher than Gill's 142.96, favouring high-action starts in powerplays although their numbers are pretty same. The landscape of Indian cricket continues to evolve with the emergence of dynamic young talents, and among the most talked-about are Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal.
The number 269 referred to Virat's cap number as he was the 269th player to represent India in Tests. Kohli, who admitted that it wasn't an easy call to make, turned up in 123 Tests for India, scoring 9230 runs with 30 hundreds at an average of 46.85.
