The Indian Premier League (IPL) is now a few days left in the beginning of 2025. After the Champions Trophy, the IPL will be lying on the audience. The IPL starts from March 22, whose opening match will be between the current champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). The inaugural match will be held at Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
But there are some updates about the early IPL matches. After Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, the latest name has now joined the fast bowler of Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) team Mayank Yadav. This is the Khiladi, who will not play in the initial match or the initial half. At the same time, the reason why Pandya will remain outside is related to IPL 2024. Mayank Yadav will not be able to play in the first half of IPL 2025. According to Cricinfo, Mayank Yadav is recovering from a back injury.
Mayank has recently started bowling at BCCI’s Center of Excellence in Bengaluru. He was engaged in the T20 series against Bangladesh last October after his debut for India. BCCI has not yet set a fixed date for Mayank’s comeback, but if he completes fitness parameters with his balling workload, he can play in the second half of the IPL.
Mayank’s unavailability in the first half of the tournament is a shock to Lucknow, which retained her for Rs 11 crore (about $ 1.31 million) before the mega auction. Whereas before the 2024 season, he was purchased as an uncapulated bowler for Rs 20 lakh. Mayank got so much price due to his bowling, he bowled balls at a speed of 150 km per hour in IPL 2024.
For this reason, he received the Player of the Match award twice in his first two matches in the IPL. Seeing his talent, the national selectors included Mayank in the fast balling contract list. Mayank’s journey in IPL 2024 was only up to 4 matches, during the rehab, Mayank suffered a distinct injury, delaying his return, but eventually played and made a T20 match against Bangladesh.
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The BCCI has not given details about Mayank’s injury, but Cricinfo has claimed that Mayank had stress -related injuries on the back on the left hand. In February, former India fast bowler Zaheer Khan took over as LSG team director. Zaheer then said in a statement that he only wants to field Mayank back to the field. He said that we want it to be 150% fit, not only 100% fit. LSG is ready to play its first match of the season against Delhi Capitals in Visakhapatnam on 24 March under the leadership of new captain Rishabh Pant.
Why Bumrah will not be able to play the initial match of IPL, know the reason …
There were also reports about Mumbai Indians’ lead fast bowler Jaspreet Bumrah that due to a back injury, the IPL may be out of the early matches. Bumrah, currently passing through the Rehabr in BCCI’s Center of Excellence in Bengaluru, has resumed the bowling, but is not fully prepared yet, according to the information that he can fit to join the team in early April, possibly staying outside the first two weeks of the tournament.
Mumbai Indians have to play three matches in March- against Chennai Super Kings on 23 March, against Gujarat Titans on 29 March and against Kolkata Knight Riders on 31 March. Bumrah’s return may be in the match against Lucknow Super Giants on 4 April.
In the absence of Bumrah, Trent Bolt and Deepak Chahar will take command of bowling. Bumrah’s recovery is being closely monitored, because after the IPL, India has to play a five -Test series in England.
Hardik Pandya will not play the first match
Hardik Pandya will not be able to play the first match of IPL 2025. However, in the coming season, he will handle the captaincy of Mumbai. Since Hardik will be banned in the initial match of IPL 2025, in such a situation, captaincy Suryakumar Yadav can be seen in his place.
In fact, in the last match, Pandya was found guilty of slower rate in the last match, captaining the Mumbai team in IPL 2024. For the first time, if found guilty of slowover rate, the captain is fined Rs 12 lakh. For the second time, the captain also imposes 24 lakh rupees and other Khiladis of the team. At the same time, for the third time this happens, the captain is fined 30 lakh rupees and the Khiladis. For the third time, the captain is also banned for a match for the penalty. This happened 3 times in the 2024 season of IPL under Hardik.
The third mistake regarding the slowover rate from Hardik was made in the third match against Lucknow Super Giants during IPL 2024. For this reason, now he will not be able to play the first match of the upcoming season of IPL.
For IPL 2025, Mumbai results in Jaspreet Bumrah (18 crore), Hardik Pandya (16.35 crore), Suryakumar Yadav (16.35 crore), Rohit Sharma (16.30 crore), Tilak Verma (8 crore). Mumbai Indians also have an RTM (Right to Match) card. Which she can use during the IPL mega auction. The Mumbai team won the IPL five in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020 under Rohit Sharma’s captaincy.
