Mahela Jayawardene with Rohit Sharma
Mega auction will be organized before IPL 2025. The retention list of all the teams has to be announced before the auction. Meanwhile, Mumbai Indians have taken a big decision. Meanwhile, Mumbai Indians have given a big responsibility to Rohit Sharma’s special team. The five-time IPL champion team has appointed former Sri Lankan cricketer Mahela Jayawardene as the new head coach ahead of IPL 2025. Mahela Jayawardene has been the head coach of Mumbai Indians from 2017 to 2022. Under him, Mumbai Indians have also won the IPL title thrice. Jayawardene is considered very close to Rohit Sharma. Jayawardene will replace Mark Boucher who was the coach of the team for the last two seasons in 2023 and 2024.
Why did Mumbai Indians remove the head coach?
Mahela Jayawardene was removed as the head coach by Mumbai Indians in the year 2022 and made the global head of MI. During this time he worked with different MI teams around the world. During this period, MI won titles in WPL, MLC and ILT20. Mahela has also played for Mumbai Indians team in IPL. Mahela’s career as a coach has been quite amazing. In such a situation, the team will benefit a lot from his arrival during IPL 2025. Mumbai Engineers has given this information regarding Mahela through its social media.
The year 2024 was very bad
The year 2024 was very bad for the Mumbai Indians team. Mumbai Indians first removed Rohit Sharma from the post of captain and in his place Hardik Pandya was made the team captain. Under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya, his team could win only four matches. At the same time, team coach Mark Boucher also could not do anything special. Questions were also raised on many of his decisions. The fans did not like these decisions of Mumbai Indians very much. The effect of which was clearly visible on his performance also. The team is looking to correct all those mistakes this season. After becoming the head coach of the team, Mahela Jayawardene said that his journey within the MI family has always been one of growth.
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