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Hardik Pandya joins Mumbai Indians for IPL 2025 after leading India to a Champions Trophy win. Despite a poor last season, he goals for fulfillment with MI but will miss the opener as a result of suspension.
Hardik Pandya joins Mumbai Indians camp. (Image: X)
Hardik Pandya has joined the Mumbai Indians squad ahead of the upcoming Indian Premier League 2025 season. After helping India secure a historic Champions Trophy 2025 title, the star all-rounder has his sights set on leading MI for the approaching season.
The all-rounder chipped in with 18 runs to assist India complete the chase against Recent Zealand to lift their third Champions Trophy title with a win by 4 wickets. He scored a complete of 99 runs within the tournament with 4 wickets to his name within the campaign.
Mumbai Indians shared an image of their captain on X and captioned the post, “The GUN has arrived”.
Pandya has proven to be an indispensable asset in India’s white-ball setup. Within the recently-concluded tournament, he was India’s go-to pacer alongside the veteran Mohammed Shami because the side opted to go for a spin-heavy bowling attack to reap the benefits of the slow conditions in Dubai.
With the T20 World Cup 2024 and the Champions Trophy 2025 success under his belt, the star all-rounder will hope to bring forth the identical sort of success with the franchise as well. After making a blockbuster all-cash trade deal from the Gujarat Titans. He was named the captain of the side for the previous season. Nevertheless, he had a poor start in his second stint with MI, who went on to complete at the underside of the points table with only 4 wins in 14 matches.
Nevertheless, Pandya is about to miss MI’s opening match against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on March 23 as a result of his one-match suspension on the fag end of the last edition. The penalty followed three over-rate violations during IPL 2024. Based on IPL rules, a captain faces a one-match suspension after a team commits three such infractions in a season.
On Monday, the top coach, Mahela Jayawardene and his coaching staff arrange an intensive training session for the members which have already began their camp. The likes of Naman Dhir, Bevon Jacobs, Robin Minz, KL Srijith, Raj Angad Bawa, PSN Raju, Ashwani Kumar and Vignesh Puthur were amongst those that took part within the training session.
(with IANS Inputs)
