Head coach Mahela Jayawardene stated there is a lot of talent in the auction pool and the team is looking to make their picks wisely. On day one of the auction, MI roped in Trent Boult (INR 12.50 crore), Naman Dhir (INR 5.25 crore), Robin Minz (Rs 65 lakh) and Karn Sharma (Rs 50 lakh), and have a remaining purse of Rs 21.6 crore.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"It was an amazing auction in the sense that we knew what was going to happen. When we saw the list of players, that it\u2019s two halves to this auction. So we knew that if we\u2019re doing this route, we have to be patient. There\u2019s another 400 or more players on the list. So we could pick and choose and there\u2019s a lot of talent that we\u2019re going to pick wisely,\" said Jayawardene in a video posted on the franchise\u2019s social media accounts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
He also said having a lot of purse ahead of day two\u2019s proceedings gives them a lot of authority in terms of how they want to go about their plans. \u201cBecause at the end of the day, the auction is not just for the players that are in the auction and the purses that we have, it\u2019s to the players that we retain, the value that we put into those players.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"To be in that situation where we are in the top 3 in purses going into day 2 and at the same time we secured nine slots in our playing XI that gives us a lot of comfort in how we want to execute.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Boult and Dhir have been in the MI set-up previously, and Jayawardene signed off by saying the franchise has taken into account the factor of forming the team around their five retained players \u2013 Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Varma.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"To be in that situation where we are in the top 3 in purses going into day 2 and at the same time we secured nine slots in our playing XI that gives us a lot of comfort in how we want to execute.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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