MI packs a 'paanch'

Indian captain Rohit Sharma on Thursday backed the franchisersquos move to retain five national team players in the Mumbai Indians squad for IPL 2025 while skipper Hardik Pandya summed it up as ldquofive fingers but one fistrdquoMumbai Indians chose to retain Jasprit Bumrah Suryakumar Yadav Pandya Rohit and Tilak Varma as the IPL franchises submitted their list of retentions ahead of the mega auction that will be taking place later this monthldquoThe players who are representing the national team at the highest level should get the preference Itrsquos a very tough one when you come into a fresh auction and you start retaining playersrdquo former MI skipper Rohit said after being retained by the fivetime IPL champslsquoWe can have a good auctionrsquoAfter a disastrous last season where they finished at the bottom of the 10team league Rohit said MI will look to put their best foot forward in the next edition ldquoWith Mumbai we have always tried maintaining a core group of players Moving forward I just feel that we can have a good auction and create a group of players who can be matchwinners for us We will put the right foot forward and bring the legacy back where it belongsrdquoHeinrich KlaasenThere has also been plenty of chatter around Rohitrsquos future in the side after he was replaced by Hardik as captain before the start of last yearrsquos tournamentHardik will be eager to start afresh after last seasonrsquos disappointment in a franchise with whom he has achieved a lot of success as a player ldquoEverything that Irsquove achieved in my life has been part of Mumbai Indians We remember as a group 2013 2015 2017 2019 and 2020 Five people who we all have cherished a lot of good memories together We are as one We are five fingers but one fist Thatrsquos how I look at itrdquo Pandya saidAlso Read Will Wankhede help Rohit Sharma get mojo backMeanwhile South African Heinrich Klaasen with R23 crore valuation pipped none other than peerless RCBrsquos Virat Kohli R21 crore to emerge as the most expensive retentionPant parts ways with DCCaptains Rishabh Pant LSGrsquos KL Rahul and KKRrsquos Shreyas Iyer will headline the list of bigticket India names heading to the mega auction after not being retained by their respective franchises DC thus ended a nineyear association with PantOther retentionsMI Jasprit Bumrah Rs 18 crore Suryakumar Yadav Rs 1635 crore Hardik Pandya Rs 1635 crore Rohit Sharma Rs 1630 crore NT Tilak Varma Rs 8 crore Retention Price Rs 75 crore Purse for auction Rs 45 crore RTM 1DC Axar Patel Rs 165 crore Kuldeep Yadav Rs 1325 crore Tristan Stubbs s R10 crore Abhisek Porel Rs 4 crore Purse for Auction Rs 7625 crore RTM 2RCB Virat Kohli Rs 21 cr Rajat Patidar Rs 11 cr and Yash Dayal Rs 5 crore Rs 37 crore Purse for Auction Rs 83 crore RTM 3PBKS R95 crore Purse for Auction R1105 crore RTM 4KKR Rinku Singh Rs 13 crore Varun Chakravarthy Rs 12 crore Sunil Narine Rs 12 crore Andre Russell Rs 12 crore Harshit Rana Rs 4 crore Ramandeep Rs 4 crore Retention Rs 57 crore Purse for Auction Rs 63 crore RTM 0LSG Nicholas Pooran Rs 21 crore Ravi Bishnoi Rs 11 crore Mayank Yadav Rs 11 crore Mohsin Khan Rs 4 crore Ayush Badoni Rs 4 cr Retention Rs 51 crore Purse for Auction Rs 69 croreSRH Pat Cummins Rs 18 crore Abhishek Sharma Rs 14 crore Nitish Reddy Rs 6 crore Klaasen Rs 23 crore Travis Head Rs 14 cr Retention Rs 75 crore Purse for Auction Rs 45 crore RTM 1CSK Ruturaj Gaikwad Rs 18 cr Matheesha Pathirana Rs 13 cr Shivam Dube Rs 12 crore Ravindra Jadeja Rs 18 cr MS Dhoni Rs 4 crore Retention Rs 65 crore Purse for Auction Rs 55 cr RTM 1RR Sanju Samson Rs 18 crore Yashasvi Jaiswal Rs 18 crore Riyan Parag Rs 14 crore Dhruv Jurel Rs 14 crore Shimron Hetmyer Rs 11 crore Sandeep Sharma Rs 4 crore Retention Rs 79 crore will be adusted Purse for Auction Rs 41 crore RTM 0GT Rashid Khan Rs 18 crore Shubman Gill Rs 165 crore B Sai Sudharsan Rs 85 cr Rahul Tewatia Rs 4 cr M Shahrukh Khan Rs 4 cr Retention Rs 51 crore Purse for Auction Rs 69 croreThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever