The defending champions Mumbai Indians were selective in picking up the players at IPL 2018 auction but theyꦿ did shed out ꦜbig money for the players they desperately wanted to buy or retain.
MI is one of the few🥂 franchises who were successful in keeping their core intact and retained Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, an⛄d Jasprit Bumrah earlier in the first week of January.
During the mega-auction, they used their two RT🥃Ms to bring back Kieron Pollard and Krunal Pandya.
In total, MI franchise bought 22 players at the auction and now have a squad of 25 players to choose in tꦰhe IPL 2018.
List of players bought by MI at the IPL 2018 auction:
- Kieron Pollard (5.4 crore)
- Mustafizur Rahman (2.2 crores
- Pat Cummins (5.4 crores)
- Surya Kumar Yadav (3.2 crores)
- Krunal Pandya (8.8 crores)
- Ishan Kishan (6.2 crore)
- Rahul Chahar (1.9 crores)
- Saurabh Tiwary (80 lakhs)
- Evin Lewis (3.8 crores)
- Ben Cutting (2.2 crore)
- Pradeep Sangwan (1.5 crore)
- Jason Behrendorff (1.5 crores)
- JP Duminy (1 crores)
- Tajinder Dhillon (55 lakhs)
- Sharad Lumba (20 lakhs)
- Siddhesh Lad (20 lakhs)
- Aditya Tare (20 lakhs)
- Mayank Markande (20 lakhs)
- Akila Dhananjaya (50 lakhs)
- Anukul Roy (20 lakhs)
- Mohsin Khan (20 lakhs)
- MD Nidheesh (20 lakhs)
MI has 8 overseas players out of 25.
