Rohit Sharma & Virat Kohli Play In The Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26: There is great news for Indian domestic cricket that Team India’s legends Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will be seen playing in Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26. Rohit Sharma has been included in the Mumbai squad and will be available for the team’s first two matches, this has been confirmed by the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA).

Former Team India captain Rohit Sharma will join the Shardul Thakur-led side in Jaipur, where Mumbai have been placed in elite Group C. Virat Kohli has confirmed his availability for the initial matches of Delhi. Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) has included the star batsman in the team for the initial rounds. Where Rishabh Pant has been made the captain and Ayush Badoni has been made the vice-captain. Delhi’s matches will be played in Bengaluru.

Rohit-Virat will practice before New Zealand series

Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 is going to start from December 24, 2025. The league stage matches of this tournament will run till January 8, 2026, after which there will be knockout matches and the final will be played on January 18 in Bengaluru. After retirement from Test and T20, Rohit and Virat now play only ODI cricket for India. Rohit and Virat are playing this tournament for important match practice before the home ODI series against New Zealand starting from January 11, 2026.

How much money do you get for playing Vijay Hazare Trophy?

To play in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, players get per match fees based on their List A experience. Players who play 41 or more List A matches get Rs 60,000, those who play 21-40 matches get Rs 50,000 and those who play 0-20 matches get Rs 40,000 per match. So reserve players are paid half of these amounts.

How much will Rohit-Virat earn from Vijay Hazare Trophy?

Team India’s star batsman Virat Kohli has played more than 40 List A matches, hence he will get Rs 60,000 per match. Virat can play three matches for Delhi, in such a situation he can earn a total of Rs 1.80 lakh in Vijay Hazare Trophy. The per match fee for Rohit Sharma will also be the same as for Virat. Rohit will play two matches for Mumbai, so he will earn Rs 1.20 lakh in this tournament.

Happiness has knocked at the house of Indian cricket team’s star fast bowler all-rounder Shardul Thakur. Shardul Thakur’s wife Mithali Parulkar has given birth to a son. This good news, which came just before the New Year, has filled the Thakur family as well as their fans with happiness.

Shardul gave good news on social media

Shardul Thakur himself shared this good news with his fans. He informed about the birth of his son through an emotional post on Instagram. The interesting thing is that before this neither Shardul nor Mithali had made any public post regarding pregnancy. In such a situation, this news was no less than a surprise for the fans. Along with the post, Shardul also shared some pictures and wrote, “Hidden in the hearts of parents, safe in silence, trust and eternal love. Our little secret has arrived. Welcome, our precious son. The dream that we kept with love silently for 9 beautiful months.”

journey till marriage

Shardul Thakur and Mithali Parulkar know each other since school time. Friendship gradually turned into love and then both of them decided to spend their life together. Both of them got engaged in November 2021. Many famous cricketers including Rohit Sharma also came to the engagement ceremony. After this, both of them got married on 27 February 2023.

Who is Mithali Parulkar?

Mithali Parulkar is not only a cricketer’s wife but also a successful businesswoman. After studying commerce, he started his career as a company secretary. However, later he thought it right to follow his passion. She loved baking. Due to which he started his bakery ‘All Jazz Bakery’ in Thane. His bakery is today counted among the favorite bakeries of the city.

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Talking about cricket, Shardul Thakur started playing for India in 2017. Till now he has played 13 Tests, 47 ODIs and 25 T20 International matches. During this period he took 131 wickets and scored 775 runs. In IPL 2026, Shardul will be seen playing for his home team Mumbai Indians, where he has been included by trade from Lucknow Super Giants.

Indian cricketer Shardul Thakur has become a father for the first time. On Sunday, December 21, Shardul and his wife Mithali Parulkar got the good fortune of becoming parents of a son. Shardul shared the good news of becoming a father for the first time with fans through social media.

Shardul Thakur gave the good news of becoming the father of a son to the fans through an Instagram post. He wrote with the post, “Hidden in the hearts of our parents, protected by silence, trust and eternal love. Our secret has finally come out in front of everyone. Welcome son, the dream that we kept silently for 9 months.”

Former Indian cricketer Zaheer Khan’s wife Sagarika Ghatge and Ravichandran Ashwin’s wife Preeti Narayan have also congratulated on this post of Shardul Thakur. There has been a flood of congratulations for this couple in the comment section.

Shardul Thakur and Mithali Parulkar know each other since school days. After many years, they decided to convert their relationship into marriage. She got engaged in November 2021, her engagement ceremony was attended by many other cricketers including Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul.

Both of them decided to get married on 27 February 2023. Shardul’s wife has studied till graduation, but is also a businesswoman. He has a bakery brand, whose brand value is said to be in crores.

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Mumbai Indians Full Squad For IPL 2026: For the 19th season of the Indian Premier League, a mini auction was held on December 16, 2025 at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, in which Mumbai Indians entered the auction with the lowest purse. Mumbai Indians had prepared their team through trade during the retention period before the auction. Many times during the auction the team is not able to prepare as per the plan. In such a situation, Mumbai tried a new method and was successful to a great extent in making up for its shortcomings by including many players in its team at low prices through trade.

Mumbai Indians included these players in the auction

Mumbai Indians, which entered the IPL 2026 auction with the lowest purse, was successful in including 5 players in its team. He had to buy a total of five players, including one foreigner, to complete the squad. In which South African wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock joined for Rs 1 crore. Apart from this, four young Indian players Danish Malewar (30 lakh), young left-arm fast bowler Mohammad Izhar (30 lakh), all-rounder Atharva Ankolekar (30 lakh) and all-rounder Mayank Rawat (30 lakh) were included in the team at the base price. Even after completing the squad of 25 in the auction, Rs 55 lakh were left in the account of Mumbai Indians.

Mumbai Indians included these players in the team through trade

Mumbai Indians included all-rounders Shardul Thakur and Sherfane Rutherford in their team through trade. Shardul was traded by Mumbai to Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 2 crore and Sherfed Rutherford was traded to Gujarat Titans for Rs 2.6 crore. Mumbai had made a cash deal for both the players. After this, to make up for the lack of leg spinner in their team, MI included Mayank Markande in their platoon by trading him to Kolkata Knight Riders for a price of Rs 30 lakh.

Mumbai Indians full squad for IPL 2026:

Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma, Robin Minze, Ryan Rickleton, Hardik Pandya (captain), Naman Dheer, Mitchell Santner, Will Jacques, Carbyn Bosch, Raj Angad Bawa, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah, Deepak Chahar, Ashwini Kumar, Raghu Sharma, Allah Ghazanfar, Mayank Markandey (traded from KKR), Shardul Thakur (traded from LSG), Sherfane Rutherford. (Traded from GT), Quinton de Kock (1 crore), Danish Malewar (30 lakh), Mohammad Izhar (30 lakh), Atharva Ankolekar (30 lakh) and Mayank Rawat (30 lakh).

Indian fast bowler Shardul Shardul Thakur, who was traded from Lucknow Super Giants to Mumbai Indians for Rs 2 crore before IPL 2026, says that former captain Rohit Sharma had given him permission to play openly.

34-year-old fast bowler Shardul, who played Test cricket on the England tour this year, is hoping to relive the good old days in Mumbai Indians. Shardul, who joined Rohit again, said, “We will know more when we sit together.” It will be a lot of fun.

“He made me feel comfortable,” he said. He allowed me to live freely with him. He let me play freely. We became comfortable with each other and he had a big role in this.

Shardul had a successful start as a supporting player for Mumbai Indians and not long after that he got an IPL contract. He said that his initial experience in the dressing room had a positive impact on his career.

Shardul said, “I was lucky that I got dressing room experience in my early days. I was already feeling comfortable in front of senior players. Somehow, the way I was treated during the Mumbai Indians camp, that small gesture by Mumbai Indians helped me a lot in moving forward in my career.

He said, “I got to play practice matches. I bowled with the new ball, which took my morale and confidence to another level and I was taking wickets.

Mumbai Vs Assam In SMAT 2025: The match between Mumbai and Assam in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy was played at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. In this match, Mumbai captain Shardul Thakur bowled brilliantly and shook the entire batting line-up of Assam in the powerplay itself. The Assam team, which came to chase Mumbai’s target of 220 runs, disintegrated in the first 3 overs, in which the biggest contribution was made by captain Shardul. By taking 4 wickets in just 7 balls in his very first spell, he put Mumbai in a strong position. At the same time, Shardul Thakur’s excellent performance before IPL 2026 is a good sign for Mumbai Indians, because before the IPL auction, Mumbai had traded Shardul to Lucknow.

Shardul wreaked havoc with bowling

Assam team came on the field to chase the huge target of 220 runs. On the other hand, captain Shardul Thakur opened the bowling for Mumbai and took 3 wickets in his very first over. On the very first ball of the second innings, the Mumbai captain sent Assam’s opener Danish Das back to the pavilion, then took the wicket of Abdul Aziz Qureshi on the third ball of the over and also made Assam captain Riyan Parag his victim on the fifth ball. Due to which Assam’s innings got badly disintegrated.

Captain Shardul started with a wicket on the third ball of the innings and the first ball of his second over. Shardul was successful in taking 4 wickets in just 7 balls. After this, in the third over also he dismissed one batsman and took five wickets for just 23 runs.

Mumbai’s comfortable victory against Assam

Thanks to the lethal bowling of Shardul Thakur, Mumbai won the title by defeating Assam by 98 runs. Whereas Assam team, which was chasing the target of 221 runs, was all out for just 122 runs in 19.1 overs. During this, Mumbai bowlers Sairaj Patil and Atharva Ankolekar also took 2 wickets each, while Shams Mulani also managed to take 1 wicket in his name.

The Mumbai team for the 2025 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy has been announced. The surprising thing is that despite the presence of Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dubey and Sarfaraz Khan in the team, bowling all-rounder Shardul Thakur has been given the command of the team. Mumbai is the defending champion of this tournament.

Mumbai won the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy title last year under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, but due to injury, he is not a part of the current team. KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane is also included in the team. The team includes Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Hardik Tamor as wicketkeepers. Besides, fast bowler Tushar Deshpande and spin all-rounder Tanush Kotian have also got a place.

Mumbai team will play its first match in Lucknow on 26th November.

Siddhesh Lad, who has scored 530 runs with the help of three centuries and one half-century in five matches so far in the first phase of Ranji Trophy this season, has also been included in the team. The Mumbai team will play against Railways in Lucknow on 26 November in its first match of the tournament.

Let us tell you that the elite division of Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy will be organized from 26 November to 18 December. The first round of the competition will be played in Lucknow, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Kolkata, while the knockout round will be held in Indore.

T20 series against South Africa from 9 December

Let us tell you that the Indian cricket team has to play a five-match T20 series against South Africa from December 9. In such a situation, senior players like Suryakumar Yadav and Shivam Dubey will be able to play only a few matches in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

Mumbai team for Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy- Shardul Thakur (captain), Hardik Tamore (wicketkeeper), Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wicketkeeper), Ajinkya Rahane, Ayush Mhatre, Suryakumar Yadav, Sarfaraz Khan, Siddhesh Lad, Shivam Dubey, Sairaj Patil, Musheer Khan, Suryansh Shedge, Atharva Ankolekar, Tanush Kotian, Shams Mulani, Tushar Deshpande and Irfan Umair.

Mumbai Indians have included Shardul Thakur in their team for IPL 2026 through trade. The franchise has made this deal with Lucknow Super Giants in exchange for Arjun Tendulkar. Many more big changes are possible in this team captained by Hardik Pandya, because the performance of the 5-time champion in the last edition was not very good. Let us know which players can be released and which can be retained from this team adorned with stars like Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav.

Let us tell you that the auction for IPL 2026 is to be held in mid-December, it is likely to be held on 15th December. Before this, November 15 is the deadline for all the franchises to submit the list of their retained players. The retention list of all 10 teams will be broadcast live, fans will be able to watch it from 5 pm on Saturday.

How many players will Mumbai Indians retain?

Mumbai Indians can retain a total of 15 players including captain Hardik Pandya, former captain Rohit Sharma, national T20 team captain Suryakumar Yadav. These may include 5 foreign and 10 Indian players. Mumbai will not want to change its main players, the team can release 7 players including Reece Topley, Satyanarayan Rau, Bevon Jacobs.

Mumbai Indians Retention List (Expected)

• Hardik Pandya (16.35 crores)
• Jasprit Bumrah (18 crores)
• Suryakumar Yadav (16.35 crores)
• Rohit Sharma (16.30 crores)
• Tilak Verma (8 crores)
• Trent Boult (12.50 crores)
• Vignesh Puthur (30 lakhs)
• Karan Sharma (50 lakhs)
• Mitchell Santner (2 crores)
• Will Jacques (5.25 crores)
• Robin Minz (65 lakhs)
• Naman Dheer (5.25 crores)
• Allah Ghazanfar (4.80 crores)
• Ashwini Kumar (30 lakh)
• Ryan Rickleton (1 crore)

List of released players of Mumbai Indians (probable)

• Bevon Jacobs(30 lakhs)
• Srijit Krishnan (30 lakhs)
• Raj Angad Bawa (30 lakhs)
• Deepak Chahar (9.25 crores)
• Reece Topley (75 lakhs)
• Satyanarayana Raju (30 lakhs)
• Lizaad Williams(75 lakhs)

How much purse will MI have in the auction?

The total price of the above mentioned 7 players is Rs 11 crore 95 lakh, upon their release the team’s purse will increase by this much amount. Currently there are Rs 10 lakh in Mumbai’s purse.

Indian cricketer Shardul Thakur will play for Mumbai Indians next season. Thakur remained unsold in the mega auction last year, but Lucknow Super Giants included him in their team in place of injured Mohsin Khan. Mumbai Indians have included Thakur in their squad by making a trade deal with LSG.

IPL issued a statement saying that Shardul Thakur has been included in their team by Mumbai Indians by paying an amount of Rs 2 crore. Thakur has received the same amount as was given to him by Lucknow Super Giants last year.

It is being told that Lucknow Super Giants is looking for a foreign fast bowling all-rounder. In such a situation, with the intention of increasing the purse before the auction, LSG has decided to release Shardul Thakur.

NEWS

Shardul Thakur has been traded to @mipaltan from @LucknowIPL,

More Details https://t.co/drd5BdO3fS#TATAIPL , @imShard pic.twitter.com/fG7QcIP07U

— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) November 13, 2025

It is a shocking fact that just a day before, Ravichandran Ashwin had confirmed Shardul Thakur’s joining Mumbai Indians during a discussion on his YouTube channel. But he later deleted the video, removed the statement given on Shardul Thakur from the video and uploaded it again. The interesting thing is that Mumbai Indians have shared the same clip of Ashwin on social media, in which he had talked about Thakur going to MI.

Will Arjun Tendulkar go to Lucknow?

Meanwhile, it is being told that Mumbai Indians can trade Arjun Tendulkar with LSG. According to media reports, the Lucknow team wants to prepare a foreign all-rounder as well as a backup option. Tendulkar’s fee is currently Rs 30 lakh, which will not have much impact on the purse of Lucknow Super Giants. It is being told that LSG can enter the auction with a purse of Rs 30 crore.

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Arjun Tendulkar, son of Sachin Tendulkar, known as the God of Cricket, was bought by Mumbai Indians at his base price in the mega auction held for the last edition. Although Arjun did not play a single match in 2025, now a mini auction is going to be held in December before IPL 2026. The retention list will be released on November 15 and it will be clear which franchise has retained and released which player. Meanwhile, big news is coming that Mumbai can leave Arjun Tendulkar.

Which player will Mumbai Indians replace Arjun Tendulkar?

According to the report of Cricbuzz, talks are going on between Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants regarding Arjun Tendulkar and Shardul Thakur. The report quoted sources as saying that there could be an exchange of the two, although it could be a complete cash transfer.

According to IPL trade rules, only BCCI can officially announce any transfer, so perhaps both the franchises do not want to say anything. A source associated with Mumbai Cricket has confirmed to Cricbuzz that there is a possibility of a trade between these two. Its announcement may be made in a few days.

How was Shardul Thakur last season? Display

Shardul Thakur remained unsold in the mega auction held last year, after which Lucknow Super Giants made him a part of their squad as a replacement for Rs 2 crore. Thakur played a total of 10 matches in the 2025 edition, in which he took 13 wickets. Thakur also bats well, although he did not make any significant contribution with the bat in the last edition.

Talking about Arjun Tendulkar, he did not get a chance to play even a single match in the last edition. Arjun has been with Mumbai since the first season (2023), but could not leave much of an impact. In 2023, Arjun played 4 matches, in which he took a total of 3 wickets. In 2024, he got to play only 1 match, in which he could not take any wicket.