IPL Buying and selling: Is Hardik Pandya On His Method Out Of Gujarat Titans To Mumbai Indians?

India’s T20I captain Hardik Pandya is on the centre of the most important buying and selling information forward of this yr’s Indian Premier League (IPL) public sale because the Gujarat Titans skipper may very well be on his means out and is being linked with a possible return to Mumbai Indians. With Mumbai Indians refusing to touch upon the event, one would want to attend until November 26, the closing day for IPL’s buying and selling window. Pandya had performed seven seasons of IPL for Mumbai earlier than being launched previous to the 2022 season. After becoming a member of Gujarat Titans, Pandya led the facet to back-to-back IPL finals, together with incomes them the trophy of their debut season.

“Sure, I can affirm that there was talks of Hardik going to MI. There stays an opportunity that he would possibly change sides however at this second, nothing extra may be confirmed as of now because the deal is but to be signed,” mentioned an IPL supply monitoring developments in Gujarat Titans.

Since buying and selling entails swapping of gamers, it’s nonetheless not clear that if Pandya returns to MI fold, who might change over to the Titans.

There isn’t a affirmation but from MI whether or not they have determined to launch their Rs 8 crore mega purchase Jofra Archer, who has been injured for the higher a part of the final two seasons.

With the IPL Governing Council rising the purse by an extra Rs 5 crore, MI go into the mini-auction with Rs 5.50 crore (up from the present Rs 50 lakh purse) until they launch a few of their huge buys to swell the reserve cash.

If Pandya lastly indicators up for MI on dotted traces, the large query stays is whether or not he’s going to play beneath iconic Rohit Sharma, who has led the facet to 5 trophies and has been in prime kind.

These are the questions that stay unanswered for now and the image will solely be clear as soon as BCCI formally broadcasts the ultimate buying and selling listing.

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