Hardik Pandya traded to Mumbai Indians after being retained by Gujarat Titans

As reported by the Cricbuzz, India all-rounder Hardik Pandya has been traded to Mumbai Indians as speculated earlier. A few days back, ESPNcricinfo reported that he would be traded by the Gujarat Titans in an all-cash deal for 15 crores INR. However, early in the day, the 2022 winners announced that they were retaining Pandya for the 2024 season and named him as captain.

Mumbai Indians 

Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Piyush Chawla, Dewald Brevis, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Cameron Green, Romario Shepherd (trade), Arjun Tendulkar, Vishnu Vinod, Nehal Wadhera, Shams Mulani, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Jason Behrendorff

Released

Chris Jordan, Duan Jansen, Hrithik Shokeen, Arshad Khan, Ramandeep Singh, Raghav Goyal, Tristan Stubbs, Jhye Richardson, Riley Meredith, Sandeep Warrier, Jofra Archer

Gujarat Titans

Hardik Pandya (captain), Shubman Gill, David Miller, Wriddhiman Saha, Matthew Wade, Mohit Sharma, Kane Williamson, Abhinav Manohar, B Sai Sudharsan, Darshan Nalkande, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Mohammed Shami, Noor Ahmad, R Sai Kishore, Rashid Khan, Josh Little

Released 

Shivam Mavi, Yash Dayal, Alzarri Joseph, KS Bharat, Urvil Patel, Pradeep Sangwan, Odean Smith, Dasun Shanaka

Hardik Pandya still had more time to get traded

The India all-rounder, despite being retained by the franchise, still had the option of being traded. Apparently, the window trading is still open till December 12, seven days before the auction on December 19. While all 10 teams had announced their retained and released players, Pandya has been traded and the former champions, Titans without taking a player in exchange.

On the other hand, Mumbai Indians have traded Cameron Green to Royal Challengers Bangalore without taking a player in exchange. One can assume that Pandya has been signed to replace Rohit Sharma as skipper in the future.