IPL 2020: Akash Ambani reveals biggest difficulty for Mumbai Indians during IPL auction

Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 auction concluded on Thursday in Kolkata and all teams have mand to plug holes that existed in ir squads by buying useful players. Defending champions Mumbai Indians and MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings made only a couple of additions to ir already strong squads, while or teams also spent huge to get right players which would fit ir team combination. In order to buy new players, franchises had released as well as traded players, who y thought did t fit into ir set-up and releasing any player is one of most difficult tasks for franchise owners.

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IPL 2020: Akash Ambani on leaving out players

While speaking to media after auction, Mumbai Indians owner Akash Ambani admitted that letting go of players was probably most difficult part before mega event on Thursday. He said that it is most difficult part of IPL, especially when team became champions last year. He also added that MI left and traded out 12 players this season, which is  most by any franchise in last 5-6 years, but y were toughest decisions to make. Mumbai Indians had released as many as 12 players and retained 18 in squad and among players that were released were West Indies fast bowler Alzarri Joseph, Jason Behrerff, Beuran Hendricks and all-rounder Ben Cutting.

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MI 2020 players list

Mumbai Indians got an absolute steal in auction when y brought Chris Lynn at his base price of Rs. 2 crore. y furr signed Nathan Coulter Nile for an able backup seam bowling option for Rs. 8 crore. Saurabh Tiwary is also set to make a return to Mumbai set-up, who was taken at his base price of Rs. 20 lakh. Speaking about se purchases, Ambani said that team identified seven slots that y wanted to fill. He added that it was very critical for m to get Lynn and Coulter-Nile and that y are happy with ir effort.

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