IPL 2025: Nita Ambani welcomed new players in Mumbai Indians, said- will continue this tradition

IPL 2025 Mega Auction: Five-time champion Mumbai Indians is all set after the mega auction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The team added a total of 18 players in the mega auction that lasted for two days, taking the total number of players in its squad to 23. During this period, the team focused on young talents along with experience. Fast bowler Trent Boult returned to the team, for whom the team spent Rs 12.5 crores. Apart from him, 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 mentioned here that the Mumbai team has historically produced players who went on to represent India. He said, 'We wanted to build a team around our strong core in the mega auction. Mega auction means forming a new team with the same enthusiasm and making a fresh start. I am happy to welcome some new faces and have some old faces back in the team. Trent Boult, Naman Dheer, Allah Ghazanfar, Ryan Rickelton, Deepak Chahar, Robin Minze, Karn Sharma, Will Jaques, Mitchell Santner, Reece Topley, Ashwini Kumar, Raj Angad Bawa, Srijit Krishnan, Satyanarayana Raju, Bevon-John Jacobs, Arjun Tendulkar. , Lizard Williams and Vignesh Puthur. We have retained 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 said, 'In Mumbai, we take pride and satisfaction in discovering and nurturing many young talents who play for the Indian team. From Jasprit, Hardik, Tilak, Ramandeep Singh, we now have a great group of emerging youngsters. Besides, there are some young players who are a mine of talent. Among them, the names of Naman Dheer, Robin Minz, Ashwini Kumar, Raj Angad Bawa and Srijit Krishnan are prominent. I am extremely excited to welcome the new players to Mumbai Indians. We want to continue this tradition of developing young players for Indian cricket.

Complete team of Mumbai Indians 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 Jacques, Ashwini Kumar, Mitchell Santner, Reece Topley, Srijith Krishna. , S Raju, Beven Jacobs, Arjun Tendulkar, Lizard Williams, Vigresh Puthur, Raj Angad Bawa.

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