IPL 2025: ‘I’ve retired’, Rohit Sharma’s first reaction after Mumbai Indians retains him

Rohit Sharma, Mumbai Indians IPL 2025: The speculations about Rohit Sharma and the Mumbai Indians have now ended, as MI retains their five-time IPL award-winning former skipper. Rohit Sharma shares his thoughts after MI retention.

Mumbai Indians shared a video titled “Retention Diaries” on their official social media ‘X’ (formerly known as Twitter) accounts. In this video, we can see Rohit sharing his thoughts about the city, the club, and the game called cricket.

“I have played so much cricket in Mumbai, this is the place where I started my cricket career. So this city is very, very special. Obviously, when you play for such a long time, you create so many memories with the team”, Said Rohit Sharma after Mumbai Indians retains him.

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“We haven’t had the best of the season in the last two or three years. But we are quite determined to change that… Since I have retired from the format, I think this is the perfect [retention] spot for me. The players who are representing the national team at the highest level should get the preference. That’s what I believe in and I am quite happy with it.”

The Mumbai base team has retained 5 players in which there is no uncapped player. Mumbai Indians has retained Jasprit Bumrah for the highest price i.e. 18 crores, Rs 16.35 crores for both captain Hardik Pandya and Suryakumar Yadav. At the same time, Rohit Sharma was retained by this franchise for Rs 16.30 crores. Mumbai released players like Ishan Kishan, Arjun Tendulkar, Piyush Chawla, Dewald Brevis, Tim David for the next season.

Names of players retained by Mumbai Indians:

Hardik Pandya (16.35 cr), Suryakumar Yadav (16.35 cr), Rohit Sharma (16.30 cr), Jasprit Bumrah (18 cr), Tilak Varma (8 cr).