IPL 2025: Mumbai Indians Rope In Carl Hopkinson As New Fielding Coach

Mumbai Indians (MI) appointed former English cricketer Carl Hopkinson as their new fielding coach forward of the following Indian Premier League (IPL) season subsequent yr. An announcement from the five-time champions on Friday mentioned, “The five-time IPL champions Mumbai Indians have appointed Englishman Carl Hopkinson as their new fielding coach forward of IPL 2025.”

The 43-year-old is available in with a pool of expertise, main the fielding unit of the England males’s cricket workforce for the previous seven years. He performed an instrumental function of their triumphant ODI World Cup 2019 and T20 World Cup 2022 campaigns. Nicknamed Hoppo, he was additionally Three Lions’ head fielding coach for the ICC Below-19 World Cup 2022, the place they completed because the runners-up after reaching the ultimate for the primary time since 1998.

With this alteration in personnel, the long-serving fielding coach James Pamment bids adieu to the franchise after seven years of invaluable contributions the place he received two trophies in 2019 and 2020.

The final season was not memorable for MI as they may win solely 4 out of 14 matches beneath Hardik Pandya’s captaincy.

MI IPL 2025 Squad: Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Tilak Varma, Trent Boult (Rs. 12.50 crore), Naman Dhir (Rs. 5.25 crore), Robin Minz (Rs. 65 lakh), Karn Sharma (Rs. 50 lakh), Ryan Rickelton (Rs. 1 crore), Deepak Chahar (Rs. 9.25 crore), Allah Ghazanfar (Rs. 4.80 crore), Will Jacks (Rs. 5.25 crore), Ashwani Kumar (Rs. 30 lakh), Mitchell Santner (Rs. 2 crore), Reece Topley (Rs. 75 lakh), Krishnan Shrijith (Rs. 30 lakh), Raj Angad Bawa (Rs. 30 lakh), Satyanarayana Raju (Rs. 30 lakh), Bevon Jacobs (Rs. 30 lakh), Arjun Tendulkar (Rs. 30 lakh), Lizaad Williams (Rs. 75 lakh), Vignesh Puthur (Rs. 30 lakh).