They have retained most of the successful batsmen from past seasons. Skipper Rohit Sharma along with Suryakumar Yadav & Kieron Pollard. Jasprit Bumrah will be leading the bowling lineup. Their biggest buy, Ishan Kishan on the first day, would end up as the most expensive buy of the auction and the second-highest bid for an Indian player at an IPL auction.
Purse entered: INR 48 crore
Purse left: INR 0.10 crore
Biggest buys: Ishan Kishan (INR 15.25 crore), Tim David (INR 8.25 crore), Jofra Archer (INR 8 crore)
If Jofra Archer is available, the pace attack would be one to look out for. Tymal Mills is another good buy. Watch out for ‘Baby AB’ Dewald Brevis. Tim David, the free agent from Singapore, became Mumbai's biggest overseas buy in an auction.
No Trent Boult, Quinton de Kock, Rahul Chahar or Pandya brothers, who were all instrumental in Mumbai winning the title in 2020. Also absent is a top-quality Indian spinner and a lack of replacements if one of the big boys gets injured or out of form. The lower middle-order was Mumbai's biggest match-winners in the previous four-year cycle and with both the Pandya brothers' departing, the onus will fall onto Pollard and the new players to take up the mantle.
Squad list:
Rohit Sharma (R), Jasprit Bumrah (R), Suryakumar Yadav (R), Kieron Pollard (R), Ishan Kishan, Dewald Brevis, Basil Thampi, Murugan Ashwin, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, N Tilak Varma, Sanjay Yadav, Jofra Archer, Daniel Sams, Tymal Mills, Tim David, Riley Meredith, Arshad Khan, Anmolpreet Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Rahul Buddhi, Hrithik Shokeen, Arjun Tendulkar, Aryan Juyal, Fabian Allen