At Rs 5 crore, Australian bowler Nathan Coulter-Nile has become the costliest buy for Mumbai Indians during ongoing auction for IPL 2021, followed by New Zealand’s Adam Milne and India’s own Piyush Chawla at Rs 3.20 crore and Rs 2.40 crore respectively.
While 33-year-old Nathan had earlier played around 33 IPL matches with Delhi Dare Devils, Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore, his last stint was with Mumbai Indians in 2020.
28-year-old Milne, on the other hand, has played only five IPL matches so far with RCB and MI. However, Chawla has 164 IPL matches in his kitty, followed by sevenT20 matches.
In addition, Mumbai Indians have also bought New Zealand all-rounder James Neesham Rs 50 lakh. Indian all-rounder Yudhvir Charak and South African cricketer Marco Jansen have been taken in for Rs 20 lakh each.
- Rohit Sharma
- Aditya Tare
- Anmolpreet Singh
- Anukul Roy
- Dhawal Kulkarni
- Hardik Pandya
- Ishan Kishan
- Jasprit Bumrah
- Jayant Yadav
- Kieron Pollard
- Krunal Pandya
- Quinton de Kock
- Rahul Chahar
- Suryakumar Yadav
- Trent Boult
- Chris Lynn
- Saurabh Tiwary
- Mohsin Khan
- Nathan Coulter-Nile
- Adam Milne
- Piyush Chawla
- James Neesham
- Yudhvir Charak
- Marco Jansen
Mumbai Indians won the 2020 IPL after beating Delhi Capitals in the final but even then, they did make some big changes in the off-season, releasing almost their entire line-up of overseas pacers.
While Lasith Malinga decided to retire from franchise cricket, Mumbai also released Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Pattinson, Sherfane Rutherford and Mitchell McCleneghan. They also let go of two Indians - Prince Balwant Rai and Digvijay Deshmukh.
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