Mumbai Indians: Before the start of IPL 2024, Mumbai Indians took a big decision and removed Rohit Sharma from the captaincy. In his place, Hardik Pandya, who was traded by Gujarat Titans, was given the command of the team. However, the performance of the blue jersey team was very disappointing this season. They became the first team to be eliminated from the playoff race. Meanwhile, the former veteran of Team India has made a big prediction saying that Mumbai Indians are going to release Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya before the mega auction of IPL 2025.

Hardik – Rohit will be released

Former Team India players Manoj Tiwari and Virender Sehwag, while talking during a program on Cricbuzz, said that Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya will not be a part of Mumbai Indians in IPL 2025. He also named Jasprit Bumrah and Suryakumar Yadav as the new captains of the team.

First Manoj said, “In my view, Suryakumar Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah are two players whom Mumbai Indians can retain in the mega auction of IPL 2025 and this is also my advice to Mumbai. I am not keeping Rohit because looking at Rohit it does not seem that he himself does not want to stay anymore. At the same time, one of Surya and Bumrah should be made the captain of the team.

Veeru gave a unique example

Virender Sehwag has compared the current situation of Mumbai Indians to a Bollywood film. He said, “There is no guarantee that if Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan and Aamir Khan are in the same film, the film will be a hit. There should also be a good script for this. Similarly, all the big names of Mumbai Indians will have to perform together on the field. We saw that Rohit scored a century against CSK, but still the team lost the match because the performance of all the players was not that good.”

Such was the performance of Rohit-Hardik

Rohit Sharma's performance in IPL 2024 was decent, while all-rounder Hardik Pandya has disappointed in both the departments. The Hitman has scored 349 runs in 13 matches at an average of 29.08 and strike rate of 145.42. At the same time, Hardik has scored 200 runs in 13 matches and has taken 11 wickets while bowling at an expensive economy of 10.59. Let us tell you that Mumbai Indians have to play their last match this season against Lucknow Super Giants on Friday.