Ajinkya Rahane, the Indian test vice-captain, and Surya Kumar Yadav were picked for ₹ 7 lakh in the auction for the T20 Mumbai League. Mumbai North got Ajinkya as their icon player and Mumbai North-East got Surya Kumar with the same status.
Rohit Sharma was purchased by Mumbai North-West for ₹ 6 lakh as their icon. Rohit though, won”t be able to take part in the competition as he”ll be leading the Indian team in Srilanka for the Nidahas Trophy at the time in absence of Virat Kohli.
Another India player Shreyas Iyer was picked in by Mumbai North Central for Rs 5 lakh as their icon player. Iyer and Rahane are not part of the India T20 team to Lanka.
Senior all-rounder and Indian domestic cricket stalwart, Abhishek Nayar was chosen by Mumbai South as their icon player for Rs 4 lakh, while Mumbai’s crucial middle-order batsman Siddhesh Lad went to Mumbai South Central for Rs 4 lakh as their icon player.
Prithvi Shaw, who led India”s young U-19s to the World Cup triumph for a record fourth time last month, was purchased by Mumbai North for Rs 2.80 lakh, while India pacer Dhawal Kulkarni was picked in by Mumbai North East for Rs 1.50 lakh.
Each team had to pick an icon player and five players who had featured in the First Class cricket compulsorily from the available pool of cricketers.
Mumbai North Central has appointed former India wicketkeeper Sameer Dighe as their mentor.
Ex India batsman Vinod Kambli will be mentoring Mumbai South Central, while former India opener Lalchand Rajput will do that role for the Mumbai North East.
Sandeep Patil the ex India player and selector and Balwinder Singh Sandhu, two players in the Indian world cup winning squad in 1983, will team up for Mumbai North as their mentor & coach respectively.
Amol Mazumdar the Indian domestic cricket legend will mentor Mumbai North-West side.
The T20 league is being organized by Probability Sports India Pvt Ltd under the aegis of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA).
The league commences from March 11 and conclude with the final on 21, being played with a short & sharp format.
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
All Six Squads Here:
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
