The auction of players for T20 Mumbai League concluded on Saturday. All six teams packed a punch in order to build a solid squad for the inaugural edition of the league.
Ajinkya Rahane and uncapped Suryakumar Yadav fetched the highest amount, Rs 7 lakh each, from Mumbai North and Mumbai North East respectively.
Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma went to Mumbai North West for Rs 6 lakh. Mumbai North Central’s Shreyas Iyer and Mumbai South’s Abhishek Nayar were sold for Rs 5 lakh and Rs 4 lakh respectively.
All these six players were icon players for their respective teams.
Siddhesh Lad also fetched Rs 4 lakh from Mumbai South Central.
Teams with icon player, mentor and coach:
Mumbai North West:
Icon player- Rohit Sharma (Rs 6 lakh); mentor- Amol Muzumdar; coach- Omkar Salvi.
Mumbai North:
Icon player- Ajinkya Rahane (Rs 7 lakh); mentor- Sandeep Patil; coach- Balwinder Singh Sandhu.
Mumbai North Central:
Icon player- Shreyas Iyer (Rs 5 lakh); mentor- Sameer Dighe; coach- Vinayak Samant.
Mumbai South:
Icon player- Abhishek Nayar (Rs 4 lakh); coach Amit Dani.
Mumbai North East:
Icon player- Suryakumar Yadav (Rs 7 lakh); mentor- Lalchand Rajput; coach- Atul Ranade.
Mumbai South Central:
Icon player- Siddesh Lad (Rs 4 lakh); mentor- Vinod Kambli; coach- Vinod Raghavan.
Among other notable purchases, Shivam Dubey, Jay Bista and Shashank Singh attracted deals of Rs 5 lakh each from Mumbai South Central, Mumbai South and Mumbai North East.
India Under-19 World Cup-winning captain Prithvi Shaw went to Mumbai North for Rs 2.8 lakh.
The league, whose brand ambassador is batting legend Sachin Tendulkar, will start on March 11 and conclude on March 21. All matches will be played at the Wankhede Stadium.
Complete squads:
Mumbai North: Ajinkya Rahane, Prithvi Shaw, Vijay Gohil, Shivam Malhotra, Yogesh Takawale, Shrideep Mangela, Sairaj Patil, Rakesh Prabhu, Sagar Jadhav, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Atish Gawand, Jude Singh, Hersh Tank, Akhtar Shaikh, Yogesh Pawar, Salman Ahmed, Pranay Patil, Saeed Shaikh, Sumeet Dhekale
Mumbai North Central: Shreyas Iyer, Pravin Tambe, Karsh Kothari, Kevin Almeida, Vinit Indulkar, Nikhil Patil, Sidak Singh, Eknath Kerkar, Sachin Yadav, Sagar Chhabria, Agni Chopra, Atul Singh, Aman Hakim Khan, Aishwary Surve, Aniket Redkar, Prashant Bhoir, Shashikant Kadam, Meghan Pednekar, Monil Soni, Azhar Ansari
Mumbai North East: Suryakumar Yadav, Aditya Dhumal, Dhawal Kulkarni,Akash Parkar, Praful Waghela, Mohammed Akbar Khan, Shashank Singh, Parikshit Valsangkar, Vinayak Bhoir, Kalpesh Sawant, Atharva Poojari, Atif Attarwala, Sumit Ghadigaonkar, Shikhar Thakur, Vishal Mendigeri, Shahid Shaikh, Prateek Dabholkar,Shivam Nirupam, Vaibhav Singh
Mumbai North West: Rohit Sharma, Shubham Ranjane, Tushar Deshpande, Doraiswamy Subramanian, Iqbal Abdulla, Akhil Herwadkar, Prathamesh Dake, Chinmay Sutar, Arun Yadav, Anup Revandkar, Pardeep Sahu, Parag Khanapurkar, Vineet Sinha, Shashank Attarde, Siddharth Chitnis, Sachin Shinde, Aamir Bhorania, Harshal Soni, Vaibhav Mali, Tanmay Mishra
Mumbai South: Abhishek Nayar, Harmeet Singh, Badre Alam, Rohan Raje, Jay Bista, Bhavin Thakkar, Dhrumil Matkar, Sujit Nayak, Khizer Dafedar, Aakarshit Gomel, Karan Shah, Adeeb Usmani, Japjeet Randhawa, Deepak Shetty, Ankur Singh, Atif Shaikh, Gaurav Jathar, Prasad Pawar, Prashant Naik, Suved Parkar
Mumbai South Central: Siddhesh Lad, Royston Dias, Vishal Dabholkar, Shivam Dubey, Bravish Shetty, Sufiyan Shaikh, Siddharth Akre, Tanush Kotian, Shams Mulani, Sagar Trivedi, Hardik Tamore, Ajinkya Beloshe, Alpesh Ramjani, Akhil Rajput, Bhargav Mehta, Raunaq Sharma, Pratik Prabhu, Siddharth Raut, Swapnil Salvi, Paul Valthaty
