The 34-year-old Lad has been heralded as the brand new chief for his qualities of being calm and composed underneath strain whereas additionally being constant. He had joined Goa for the 2022-23 season however returned to Mumbai after one-year stint. Having spent the obligatory one-year cool off in 2023-24, Lad joined Mumbai ranks once more in 2024-25.
Lad had a stellar season with the bat final Ranji Trophy season, scoring 774 runs in eight matches at 77.40 with 5 centuries and one fifty.
Thakur, 34, has been changed to handle his workload for the reason that Mumbai assume tank goals to maximise his worth as their premier quick bowler within the red-ball staff. He has additionally contributed closely with the bat in crunch conditions prior to now.
It’s for a second consecutive season that Mumbai will enter the Ranji Trophy with a brand new captain on the helm. Forward of the 2025-26 season, Thakur had changed Ajinkya Rahane.
Mumbai can even be trying to maximise their management choices in white-ball cricket with the incumbent India T20I captain Iyer and his predecessor Suryakumar each in fray for the captaincy function.
“Now we have each Shreyas Iyer and Suryakumar Yadav as the selection for white-ball captaincy, but it surely depends upon their availability,” a senior official from the MCA informed PTI.
Iyer had earlier changed Suryakumar because the captain of India’s T20I staff, a number of months after the latter guided India to their second consecutive and general third title win within the T20 World Cup in February.
Iyer, in the meantime, had additionally led Mumbai to the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy title in 2024-25.
Underneath Thakur, Mumbai had reached the quarterfinal stage of the Ranji Trophy 2025-26, knocked out by eventual runners-up Karnataka at house.
The Ranji season will kick off on October 11. Mumbai will tackle Chandigarh of their opening match of Elite Group D. The opposite groups on this group are Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Railways, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand.
