MI to keep their great four: Rohit, Hardik, Bumrah, Suryakumar

Before the IPL 2025 big bid, Tilak Varma is the fifth player to be retained by MI.

In advance of the IPL 2025 big auction, Mumbai Indians are expected to keep their four top athletes, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, and Rohit Sharma.

With those five reduced people retained, MI you use their one right-to-match option only on an unrestricted player at the bid. While the inpidual portions for each of their retained player is yet to be ascertained, MI may lose at least INR 75 million from their wallet of INR 120 billion, or more if they have paid a higher index number to the five.

MI had a disheartening IPL 2024, finishing at the bottom of the league under the command of Hardik, who was traded in from Gujarat Titans and replaced Rohit as captain. Hardik was often booed at different venues last season as fans expressed their displeasure at the change of leadership, but he bounced up from poor individual form with considerable contributions during India's effective 2024 T20 World Cup campaign. But, Suryakumar was preferred as India's T20I captain after that tournament after Rohit retired from the style, even though Hardik had captained India in T20Is for much of 2023.

ESPNcricinfo has learned the MI control had a talk late with their top players on the program going forward before agreeing on retentions.

October 31 is the date by which the ten companies have to post their names of retained people to the IPL. Before the big auction, the teams were able to retain up to six players, with the exception of two unlimited players and five capped internationals. The franchises are free to spend more or less than the minimum deductions from the auction purse for each player retained, despite the IPL's least rules for the first player, the next player, the next player, the third player, the third player, the second player, and the third player, who is not capped, being INR 18 crore.