IPL Auction 2024: Meet MI's new picks for the season

And then there were 25. Eight new picks, and eight diverse skillsets: genuine raw pace, a left-arm seamer, a slinger, an off-spinning all-rounder, a leggie, an upcoming pacer, a leftie batter, a lower-order finisher. Here’s your summary of how the day transpired in Dubai, our buys, what they bring to the table, and their price. Here’s your cheat sheet.

1. Gerald Coetzee: Raw pace and that pumped-up celebration. He’s going to be an absolute sight to watch at the Wankhede. The Boom-Gerald partnership is all set to send shivers down batters’ spine.

2. Dilshan Madushanka: Pace, swing, left-arm. The perfect combo for the Wankhede is here. Remember the India-Sri Lanka contest from the World Cup this year? Remember his fifer? Rohit, Gill, Kohli, Iyer, SKY were foxed! A Sri Lankan bowler pacer in the Blue and Gold, under the tutelage of Lasith Malinga, need we really say more?

3. Shreyas Gopal: It’s a homecoming. A young 21-year-old leggie had his first taste of the IPL in a Mumbai Indians shirt back in 2014, and he’s back now, more experienced, more dangerous.

4. Nuwan Thushara: Slingaaaa Thusharaaaa!! Oh we’ve missed that slingy action at the Wankhede. Not any more!

5. Naman Dhir: A part of Punjab’s Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy winning squad, he a young lower-order finisher.

6. Anshul Kambhoj: Haryana’s young pace sensation! Tall, accurate and nippy, he’s set the Vijay Hazare Trophy on fire this year, taking his state to the trophy with a truckload of wickets.

7. Mohammad Nabi: A real steal! He bats, he bowls, he fields in the hot zone. An IPL veteran, he’s that overseas spinning all-rounder we needed.

8. Shivalik Sharma: This Baroda lad has been around for a while, having made his First Class debut in 2018. But the 2023 season was one where he broke through and cracked the white-ball game, with his late-order hitting. 

Player

Country

Price

Gerald Coetzee

South Africa

5 cr INR

Dilshan Madushanka

Sri Lanka

4.6 cr INR

Shreyas Gopal

India

20 lakhs INR

Nuwan Thushara

India

4.8 cr INR

Naman Dhir

India

20 lakhs INR

Anshul Kambhoj

India

20 lakhs INR

Mohammad Nabi

Afghanistan

1.5 cr INR

Shivalik Sharma

India

20 lakhs INR