IPL 2025: Ban on Hardik Pandya in the first match of Mumbai Indians.

Last updated:March 12, 2025, 13:58 IST

Captain Hardik Pandya will not be able to play the first match of IPL due to the ban. The first match of IPL will be played against Mumbai Indians Chennai Super Kings at MA Chidambaram Stadium on March 23.Read more

3 times in 2024, Mumbai Indians captain was fined slow over rate

New DelhiThe countdown of IPL 2025 has now started and the teams have started preparations by reaching their camp. All the members of the Champions Trophy winning team will also slowly start joining with their team. The initial match of IPL is going to be challenging for Mumbai Indians.

Jasprit Bumrah may be out of a few matches due to injury, due to this news, Mumbai Indians team management was still trying to recover that now news came that captain Hardik Pandya would not be able to play the first match of IPL due to the ban. The first match of the IPL will be played against Mumbai Indians Chennai Super Kings at MA Chidambaram Stadium on 23 March. You must be wondering that if the IPL has not started yet, then what is the ban on Hardik?

Why ban on Pandya?

Hardik Pandya, who performed a bang in the Champions Trophy, was the captain of Mumbai Indians in 2024. During this, the team was fined 3 times slow over rate. When the first is blamed, the captain is fined Rs 12 lakh. For the second time this happens, the captain and 24 more players are fined 12-12 lakhs. For the third time such a mistake is imposed on the captain for a fine of 30 lakhs and a match. Other players are also fined. Playing against Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2024, Mumbai Indians were found guilty of slow over rate for the third time in the season. Now Hardik Pandya is banned for a match, so he will not be able to play the first match against Chennai Super Kings, after which he will return to the team.

As soon as he became the captain of Mumbai, he got hail.

After becoming the captain of Mumbai Indians, the road was not easy for Hardik Pandya. By the way, Pandya started his IPL career in 2015 while playing for Mumbai Indians. After this, he was an important player of this franchise till 2021. In 2022, he played as a captain in Gujarat Titans and also made him the champion in the first year. In 2023 too, he took Gujarat to the final under his captaincy, where his team lost to CSK. After playing for Gujarat for 2 seasons, he returned to Mumbai Indians in November and took command of Mumbai in IPL 2024. When Pandya returned to Mumbai, he was given a captain from Rohit and he was given a lot of ruckus and which also had an impact on the team. Now in the first match of this season, the ban on Hardik will not become the reason for giving air to the old things again.