The auction for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 will take place on December 19 this year in Kolkata. As many as 971 players have applied to test their fortunes. A total of 713 Indian and 258 over♉seas players will contest for 73 vacant spots.
Ahead of the IPL 2020 auction, Mumbai Indians (MI) released twelve pla💖yers from the previous squad, and are n♔ow aiming to get the fresh talent.
The defending champions have called up former Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) batsman Milind Kumar for the trials. T🐎he right-handerও has scored 2539 runs in 37 matches at an average of 49.8, including eight tons and ten half-centuries in his first-class career.
Milind had a phenomenal Ranji Trophy last year, and he ended the 2018-19 season as the leading run-scorer. He amassed 1331 runs at an outstanding average of 121. The 28-year-old also managed to hit six centuries and four fifties༺.
The reason why RCB released M🤡ilind ahead of the mega auction is still unknown. Apart from him, RCB also released Dale Steyn, Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetymer, Akshdeep Nath, Natha🅷n Coulter-Nile, Colin de Grandhomme, Prayas Barman, Tim Southee, Kulwant Khejroliya, Himmat Singh and Heinrich Klaasen.
On the other hand, MI released Yuvraj Singh, Evin Le🐠wis, Adam Milne, Jason Behrendorff, Barinder Sran, Ben Cutting, Alzarri Joseph, Beuran Hendricks, Rasikh Salam, and Pankaj Jaiswal.