Explained: Why Hardik Pandya And Jasprit Bumrah Are Not Playing For Mumbai Indians In IPL 2025 Match Against CSK

Explained: Why Hardik Pandya And Jasprit Bumrah Are Not Playing For Mumbai Indians In IPL 2025 Match Against CSK

Suryakumar Yadav is leading the Mumbai Indians in the first match of IPL 2025 against the Chennai Super Kings, which is taking place at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Sunday, March 23.

Jasprit Bumrah's IPL 2025 Comeback in Doubt as MI Coach Provides Update

Jasprit Bumrah’s absence from the Mumbai Indians (MI) squad in their IPL 2025 opener against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) has raised significant concerns regarding his recovery from a stress-related back injury.  The injury, sustained during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in January, has kept the ace pacer sidelined and ruled him out of the Champions Trophy as well.  As MI faced CSK without two of their key players—Bumrah and Hardik Pandya—assistant co…

IPL 2025: Why Suryakumar Yadav is captaining MI instead of Hardik Pandya against CSK?

Suryakumar Yadav is captaining MI for the second time in his IPL career.

2 players who could surprisingly play for Mumbai Indians against CSK in IPL 2025

Mumbai Indians will miss Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah against CSK in the first game of the season. On that note, here, we take a look at the list of two players who could surprisingly play for Mumbai Indians against CSK in IPL 2025. 1) Karn Sharma When he was picked, many felt he would be a backup. However, now, Allah Ghazanfar is ruled out and Mujeeb Ur Rahman does not give the same confidence. It is Chepauk and Karn could be an option for …