Dhawal Kulkarni will captain Mumbai for the next two games of the Vijay Hazare Trophy with three first-regulars to leave the campaign for commitments with the Board President's XI and the national team.
Mumbai are on a roll having won the first three games against Baroda, Karnataka and Railways in Bengaluru.
On Monday (September 24), Mumbai's Elite Group A clash against Vidarbha at Alur was abandoned due to rain, with the teams sharing points. However, when the domestic giants resume their campaign after a three-day break, on September 28 against Punjab, they will miss three of their inform batsmen - regular skipper Ajinkya Rahane, Prithvi Shaw and Shreyas Iyer.
For their next two games, against Punjab and against Himachal (September 30), Kulkarni will be the stand-in captain. The experienced bowler has been handed the responsibility for the first time.
Like Kulkarni, Iyer too will get a chance to make his captaincy debut for Mumbai when he returns to the Mumbai team after missing two matches - he and Shaw are supposed to play for Board President's XI against the touring West Indies in Baroda, in a two-day game from September 28.
Opener Akhil Herdwadkar and middle-order batsman Shubham Ranjane will replace Rahane and Iyer, while no replacement has been announced for Shaw.