Mumbai Indians' owner Nita Ambani shared an anecdote about the Pandya brothers, Hardik and Krunal when they were young kids, at the annual India conference at Harvard University. She said, One day our scouts brought two young, skinny boys to the camp. I talked to them. Those boys told me that they hadn't eaten anything other than Maggi and noodles for three years because they didn't have money. I saw in them the spirit, passion, and hunger to become big. Those two brothers were Hardik Pandya and Kunal Pandya. In 2015, I bought Hardik Pandya in the auction for $10,000 (about ₹8.5 lakh), and today he is the captain of Mumbai Indians. 5 time champs MI bought back Hardik from Gujarat for ₹100 crore Hardik Pandya spent seven season at Mumbai Indians from 2015-2021 during which he won 4 IPL titles, before moving to the new Gujarat Titans franchise ahead of the 2022 season to become their captain. Hardik won the 2022 IPL trophy with GT as captain and reached the final in 2023. But MI in a shock move paid an enormous ₹100 crore to GT in order to acquire the services of Pandya for the 2024 season, ahead of which he was named captain. Hardik received a salary of ₹15 crore. Mumbai Indians have won the IPL title a joint record five times. They have done so in the years 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2020. MI also won the Champions League T-20 twice in 2011 and 2013.
Mumbai Indians IPL 2025 squad The schedule for IPL 2025 has been announced. Mumbai Indians will kick off their campaign on March 23 against arch-rivals Chennai Super Kings.
Hardik Pandya (c), Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Trent Boult, Naman Dheer, Robin Minz, Karn Sharma, Ryan Rickelton, Deepak Chahar, Allah Gazafar, Will Jacks, Ashwini Kumar, Mitchell Santner, Reece Topley, Krishnan Sreejit, Raj Angad Bawa, Satyanarayan Raju, Bevan Jacobs, and Arjun Tendulkar.Original Article