IPL 2025: Will the Mumbai Indians lift the Trophy in IPL 2025? Will their 4 year trophy drought end finally?

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is regarded as the best T20 league in the entire and whenever a season of IPL arrives, a lot of excitement and buzz is created among the fans as they get the chance to watch the best players compete with each other and play with each other in the same team. 

We all know the kind of destruction which the likes of Virat Kohli, Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers in RCB, Lasith Malinga, Rohit Sharma in MI and Dwayne Bravo, MS Dhoni and Ravinchandran Ashwin in CSK have created together by playing in the same team and this is the reason why the IPL is the richest and the moust sought out league in the entire world. 

When we talk about this tournament, we talk about teams like Chennai Super Kings (CSK), Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Rajasthan Royals (RR). But, whenever the term IPL is mentioned, the first name which comes on our mind, is Mumbai Indians (MI). 

The Mumbai based team are regarded as one of the the best teams to ever play in the history of the tournament and they are also the joint most successful team, having lifted the IPL trophy five times, a feat which has been matched by just the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) for now.

Mumbai had a really good pre auction and an amazing Mega-Auction too. They retained their Indian core of Rohit Sharma, Captain Hardik Pandya, the best T20 bowler in the world Jasprit Bumrah, best T20 batter in the world Suryakumar Yadav and the next big thing in Indian Cricket Tilak Varma. These retentions just showed that the Mumbai based team mean business and they are here to dominate. 

Talking about the Mega-Auction, they purchased a total of 18 players in the auction and have set up a deadly 23-member squad ahead of IPL 2025. They made some really smart and strategic moves in the auction which have allowed them to build a strong, experienced and a really balanced squad. 

The kind of players which they have managed to purchase in the Mega-Auction feels like Mumbai have installed cheat codes in their squad like the ones we use in GTA games. It's really hard to find a weakness in their team and they would surely not settle for yet another trophy less season. Let's analyze their full IPL 2025 squad and their chances of lifting the IPL Trophy for a record 6th time. 

IPL 2025: Mumbai Indians (MI) squad analysis

Excellent Batting unit

Naman Dhir is another young talent who proved himself last season with his big hitting abilities and his presence will further add more strength to the already strong Mumbai Indians batting. In the auction, the Ambanis managed to secure the services of swashbuckling England batter Will Jacks for a dirt cheap price tag of 5 crore Indian rupees and he's the one who scored a brilliant century for RCB last season and he will surely provide even more solidity to batting unit of MI. 

A strong batting unit like this will surely allow MI to post 200+ runs scores on the board for fun and bowling to them is going to be a nightmare for the rest of the IPL teams.

Solid Power Hitters

Mumbai Indians (MI) is a franchise who loves to have strong power hitters in their squad and we all know the love story between MI and Kieron Pollard. While Pollard has retired and has entered the support staff of the franchise, MI haven't lost their love for strong power hitters and captain Hardik Pandya, wicketkeeper batsman Robin Minz and Ryan Rickelton will be playing those roles. 

While Rickelton might open the inning alongside Rohit, his power hitting abilities are unmatched and this makes him a special player and the Wankhede Crowd will absolutely love to catch his big hits in the stands. 

Captain Hardik Pandya needs no introduction and we all know what kind of an impact he has had for the franchise whenever he has played for them. While the last season was a tough one for him in maiden season as the captain of the team, Junior Pandya has redeemed himself by helping the Indian team lift the T20 World Cup trophy for the 2nd time and by doing this, he has also managed to rediscover his lost mojo. 

The skipper being in his well known destructive form is what the MI management would want from him and his captaincy skills are proven too, having helped the Gujarat Titans (GT) lift the trophy in their very first season in 2022. The 31-year-old would surely want to lift the IPL trophy once again and he would love to do that with the Mumbai Indians (MI) once again. 

Talking about Robin Minz, this guy hailing from Ranchi, Jharkhand, the hometown of the legendary Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a special player. Many media outlets and fans have named him as the 'Chris Gayle of Ranchi' and there's a reason behind that. He is a player who knows how to attack the ball from the word go and his T20 career strike rate of 181.1 is a proof of that. 

Minz's big hitting abilities will surely benefit the MI Franchise a lot as the ground of Wankhede is not that big and it's easy to play your shots freely there and the 22-year-old will surely love batting at the home ground of MI. The crowd will surely go bonkers seeing this youngster hit those big shots with perfection and precision. Alongside his batting skills, he is a capable wicketkeeper too and he will surely be donning those wicketkeeping gloves for the Mumbai Indians (MI) in IPL 2025.

Outstanding bowling unit

Elite Indian seamer Jasprit Bumrah made his debut for the Mumbai Indians (MI) in 2013 and he has become an important part of the franchise since then. His presence in the bowling unit makes it strong automatically and the kind of form the seamer is in currently, MI would surely be unstoppable. 

But the thing which makes their team overpowered and it almost feels like they have applied GTA cheat codes here is that the Ambanis managed to secure the services of former CSK bowler Deepak Chahar and the legendary Kiwi seamer Trent Boult. 

The addition of these two players is a masterstroke and opposition batters are going to have a tough time handling this deadly BBC combo of MI. Deepak and Boult will be seen handling the new ball bowling duties for the team and this gives the luxury to captain Hardik Pandya to introduce Bumrah in the middle overs and let him do his dirty work. 

Boult is not a stranger to the franchise, having helped them lift the IPL trophy in 2020 and he will surely be more than happy to help the Hardik Pandya-led team lift the title for a record 6th time. He also has a knack of making hit opponents witness football scores in the first six overs and watching him do this to teams at the friendly conditions of the Wankhede would surely make the crowd go wild. 

Deepak Chahar on the other hand is going to prove to be the perfect bowling partner for Boult. Chahar is known for making the ball move in both directions and this ability of his came into the limelight when he made his debut for CSK in 2018 and guess what, Chennai won the IPL in that season too. The 32-year-old loves to bowl on decks which offer a lot of swing and he will surely love to make the ball talk on the Wankhede pitch. 

Coming to the spin department, this is a department which has haunted the Mumbai Indians (MI) since IPL 2022. Ever since the departure of Krunal Pandya, a big hole was left in the squad of MI and the team management struggled to fill up this hole. They tried many spinners but it didn't work our for them. 

But this time around though, things are looking different and really good for Mumbai. They managed to pick Santner, Allah Ghazanfar and Karn Sharma in the Mega-Auction and these spinners are looking really promising. 

Santner had a solid Test-Series versus India where he completely demolished the Indian batting unit with his variations and this will surely work to his advantage as he knows the Indian pitches quite well. While he has featured on a sporadic basis for the CSK in the IPL previously, this will surely change with the Mumbai based team this around as they will be relying on his skills and experience to help them lift the title for the 6th time. 

Allah Ghazanfar on the other hand, is a young mystery spinner who is wrecking havoc. He is just 18-years-old and has already made his One-Day International debut, dismissing 21 batters in 11 contests. Not only this, he has also picked up 29 scalps in 16 T20 games which proves how talented the Afghanistan spinner is. The future is looking really bright for the youngster and under the leadership of Hardik Pandya, he will surely be seen wrecking havoc with the ball. 

Talking about Karn Sharma, this guy needs no introduction, we all know him as the trophy magnet in the IPL. He has lifted the IPL trophy at least once with each franchise he has represented in the tournament's history, except RCB. He played for RCB last season but even his trophy magent magic wasn't enough to help the franchise lift their maiden IPL Trophy XD. 

While he's 38-years-old already, you won't expect him to start over Ghazanfar or Santner but his experience will surely prove to be helpful for the franchise. 

IPL 2025: Will Mumbai Indians end their 4 year trophy drought? 

By assembling a really strong and balanced squad, the Mumbai Indians (MI) are looking like a really strong and threatening team. Teams will hate batting & bowling versus the Hardin Pandya-led team and even in away games, they can field a suitable 11 which will give them a solid chance of winning the matches. All in all, it surely looks like the Mumbai Indians (MI) will be lifting the IPL Trophy for a record 6th time.

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