Nita Ambani welcomed the new players coming to Mumbai Indians, said- will continue this tradition

By News Update On Nov 27, 2024

Cricket News Desk. Five-time champions Mumbai Indians are all set after the mega auction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The team added a total of 18 players in the two-day mega auction, taking the total number of players in their squad to 23. During this time, the team focused on young talents along with experience. Fast bowler Trent Boult returned to the team, for which the team spent Rs 12.5 crore. Apart from this, the team bought the first tribal player in IPL history, Robin Minz, for Rs 65 lakh. After the mega auction, team owner Nita Ambani talked about the young players included in the team.

He told here that Mumbai team has historically produced such players who later represented India. “We wanted to build a team around our strong base in the mega auction. Mega auction means building a new team with the same enthusiasm and making a fresh start. I am happy to welcome some new faces and some old faces back to the team. Trent Boult, Naman Dheer, Allah Ghazanfar, Ryan Rickleton, Deepak Chahar, Robin Minns, Karn Sharma, Will Jacques, Mitchell Santner, Reece Topley, Ashwini Kumar, Raj Angad Bawa, Srijit Krishnan, Satyanarayana Raju, Bevan-John Jacobs, Arjun Tendulkar. , Lizard Williams and Vignesh Puthur. We have maintained a strong core with Hardik, Jasprit, Rohit, Surya and Tilak and the mega auction was an opportunity to see how we can build a strong team around them.

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He further added, 'In Mumbai, we take pride and satisfaction in discovering and nurturing so many young talents who play for the Indian team. From Jasprit, Hardik, Tilak, Ramandeep Singh, we now have a great group of young up and coming youngsters. Apart from this, there are some young players who are a mine of talent. The names of Naman Dheer, Robin Minz, Ashwini Kumar, Raj Angad Bawa and Srijit Krishnan are prominent in this. I am very excited to welcome the new players to Mumbai Indians. We want to continue this tradition of developing young players for Indian cricket.

Mumbai Indians full squad for IPL 2025 – Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Tilak Verma, Trent Boult, Naman Dheer, Robin Minz, Karn Sharma, Ryan Rickleton, Deepak Chahar, Allah Ghazanfar, Will Jacks, Ashwini Kumar, Mitchell Santner, Reece Topley, Srijit Krishna, S Raju, Beven Jacobs, Arjun Tendulkar, Lizard Williams, Vigresh Puthur, Raj Angad Bawa.