Two-time IPL Champion team Mumbai Indians kicked off their pre-season camp in Mumbai. (March 26).
Players like Ishan Kishan, Anukul Roy and Pradeep Sangwan landed in the camp on the opening day.
Mumbai Indians managed to retain their core players ahead and the auction day.
The franchise retained its skipper Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya ahead of the auction.
On the auction day, the franchise used its Right to Match (RTM) card on Kieron Pollard (5.40 Crore) and Krunal Pandya (8.80 Crore).
In fact, the moment when the franchise used its RTM card on Pandya, he became highest ever paid uncapped player in the history of IPL.
Surprisingly, the franchise neither retained nor used its RTM card on Harbhajan Singh.
The India off-spinner played for just one franchise i.e. Mumbai Indians during all ten seasons of IPL.
It was a big surprise to see Mumbai Indians not trying to get him.
In fact, he received only one bid and Chennai Super Kings snared the veteran player at his base price of Rs 2 Crore.
Meanwhile, Mumbai Indians kick off their IPL campaign against Chennai Super Kings in the opening game of the season on April 7.
The Match will be played at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.
The opening ceremony of the tournament will also take place the same day at the same venue before the start of the match.
This will see only the members of these two teams attending the event.
Apart from the opening ceremony and opening game, Wankhede Stadium will also host the first Qualifier and the final of the eleventh edition of IPL.
Mumbai Indians squad: Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Kieron Pollard, Pat Cummins, Evin Lewis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ben Cutting, Mustafizur Rahman, Rahul Chahar, Pradeep Sangwan, Mitchell McClenaghan, Jean-Paul Duminy, Saurabh Tiwary, Tajinder Dhillon, Akila Dhananjaya, Nidheesh M D Dinesan, Aditya Tare, Siddhesh Dinesh Lad, Mayank Markande, Sharad Lumba, Anukul Roy, Mohsin Khan.
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