Rohit Sharma contributed to Mumbai Indians record 5 titles in the history of Indian Premier League. Under his leadership, Mumbai won the title in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020.

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Mumbai has not been able to perform as expected since 2020. In the last four seasons, Mumbai could not even reach the finals, let alone become champions. That is why Mumbai removed Rohit Sharma from the leadership before the last season.

Despite being removed from the captaincy, Mumbai Indians kept him in the team. Rohit will play for Mumbai in next year's IPL as well. However, in this season, Mumbai is going to pay him less than the top three cricketers of the team. It is very disrespectful for the captain of the Indian cricket team. Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav will earn more than that.

For the 2025 season of IPL, each team can retain 6 cricketers who played in the previous year. Mumbai has left 5 out of them. That list includes former captain Rohit Sharma and current captain Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah and Tilak Verma.

According to the list, Mumbai kept Jasprit Bumrah in the team for 18 crores. Captain Hardik Pandya was retained for Rs 16.35 crore. Suryakumar Yadav was retained in the team with the same amount as Pandya. But they kept Rohit Sharma for Tk 16.30 crore. And Tilak kept Verma with four crore rupees.

The reason why Bumrah is paid more, Bumrah is a specialist bowler. All the teams want to keep Bumrah, one of the best bowlers in the world. Hardik is the captain of the team in IPL. And Suryakumar is the captain of the T20 team of the Indian cricket team.

Under the leadership of Rohit Sharma, India became the T20 world champion this year. Rohit has said that he will continue the IPL even after retiring from international T20.