Fact Check: Is Jasprit Bumrah traded to Gujarat Titans for Hardik Pandya? Here's the reality

While the IPL trading window has been completed with Hardik Pandya leaving Gujarat Titans and rejoining Mumbai Indians grabbing global headlines, fans have been divided over the issue. While Hardik Pandya led Gujarat Titans to win the IPL trophy, his transfer to Mumbai Indians did not go well with some fans. Amid the Hardik Pandya controversy, Team India speedster Jasprit Bumrah on Tuesday dropped multiple cryptic posts on his social media. Notably, Jasprit Bumrah was among the top contenders to captain Mumbai Indians after Rohit Sharma. However, with Hardik's return, Mumbai Indians will opt for the allrounder's captaincy skills. Amid the IPL trading controversies, rumors erupted that Jasprit Bumrah has been traded to Gujarat Titans (GT) for Hardik Pandya. 

Following this, fans on social media went berserk. However, Jasprit Bumrah traded to Gujarat Titans report is totally fake. The social media profile that posted Bumrah's transfer to Gujarat Titans is a parody account of Mumbai Indians. The Mumbai Indians parody account wrote, "𝗠𝗨𝗠𝗕𝗔𝗜 ➡️ 𝗚𝗨𝗝𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗦..Thank you, Boom boom for those wonderful seasons in MI Blue & Gold." Jasprit Bumrah traded to Gujarat Titans post received more than 15k Views and many fans flagged that the report is fake. 

Also, Mumbai Indians and the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Monday shared the updated list of players who have been retained and released by franchises. Mumbai Indians have retained Jasprit Bumrah as he is among the vital cog of the 5 times IPL winners when it comes to bowling. 

Gujarat Titans Retained Players: Abhinav Sadarangani, B. Sai Sudharsan, Darshan Nalkande, David Miller, Jayant Yadav, Joshua Little, Kane Williamson, Matthew Wade, Mohammad Shami, Mohit Sharma, Noor Ahmad, R. Sai Kishore, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Shubman Gill, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha

Mumbai Indians Retained Players: Akash Madhwal, Arjun  Tendulkar, Dewald Brevis, Ishan Kishan, Jason Behrendorff, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, N. Tilak Varma, Nehal Wadhera, Piyush Chawla, Rohit Sharma, Romario Shepherd (T), Shams Mulani, Surya Kumar Yadav, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Hardik Pandya (T)