El Clásico has Real Madrid × Adidas and Barcelona × Nike

Now Mumbai Indians have Nike!

When are we partnering with Adidas to bring that iconic rivalry to the IPL? 💛🦁

Ayush's role is to give an explosive start in the poweplay. It doesn't matter when he gets out early if he is able to score 35(15), 27(10) type of knocks. Urvil is tailor made for this role.

We already have Sanju to steer the ship and maintain the run rate, so Urvil can freely blast on the other end. So Sanju - Urvil open, Brevis can come at 3(he has done well there), Dube will be back at 4(his best position).

Our biggest concern is no. 5, 6, 7 since we need bowling options as well as hitters in the lower order. That's who we should target.

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CSK are definitely releasing Prashant Veer otherwise they won't have enough funds to make a mark at the auction. They might've wanted to release both Veer and Kartik Sharma and brought them back cheaper if need be, but now with Ayush Mhatre's injury, Kartik they may just persist with, coz he also did fairly well the last time. But they can't have a player who's not a first XI choice (Veer) for 14crs in the squad.

* Ruturaj would be the captian even if Trades happens Ms is clear on Ruturaj

* CSK is going with minimum 30 cr into the auction

Source : Dwaipayan Datta, Sr Editor, TOI Sports, Chennai/TOI SPORTS YTC

SHIMRON HETMYER : I THINK MOST PROBABLY HE WILL BE RELEASED BY RR AND SINCE CSK LACKS A LEFTY WHO CAN FINISH MATCHES. HE CAN BE VERY USEFUL.

KARTIK CHADHA: IN MY OPINION HE SHOULD BE TRIED AS HE WAS THE SECOND HIGHEST WICKET TAKER IN THE SHER E PUNJAB T20 WITH 14 WICKETS IN 10 MATCHES WITH AN ECONOMY RATE OF 6.46 ONLY IN THE FLAT PITCHES. HE WAS ALSO THE NET BOWLER OF CSK IN 2025. SO HE MUST BE FAMILIAR WITH THE ENVIRONMENT.

TUSHAR RAHEJA: HE IS A LOCAL ONLY. HE IS SCORING RUNS CONSISTENTLY IN TNPL WITH A SR OF 185+. HE IS ALSO A LEFTY AND CAN BE THE BACK UP FOR AYUSH MHATRE.

NUWAN TUSHARA: SIMILAR TO PATHIRANA ALSO PLAYED FOR MI WAS GOOD THERE. HE IS A GOOD DEATH BOWLER. I ACTUALLY DON'T KNOW IF HE WILL BE IN THE AUCTION BUT STILL CAN BE A BACKUP FOR ELLIS

IF YOU THINK OF ANY OTHER PLAYER PLEASE SHARE AND BE RESPECTFUL IN THE REPLIES

Instead of breaking our heads trying to get hardik pandya for finisher role

michael bracewell is perfect and very csk coded player,very unassuming,utility with bat and ball,can hit big sixes and is a very wily offspin bowler

and its worth sacrificing akeal for the important finisher role and he can give 2-3 overs

by 4 will be bracewell overton brevis and noor/ellis

and then we can clear out purse and look for indian spinner and also indian no.5 ,if we release karthik/veer/henry

we are releasing all the nz quota players like henry ,foulkes ,we get money from that

my team in the event that ayush is injured is

samson rutu brevis dube no.5 no.6 (auction buys ,maybe kartik for one) overton bracewell ellis,indina spinner ,kambhoj and khaleel/mukesh impact

we can play ghosh for ellis and play noor instead of indina spinner

*Eric Simons - Former CSK coaching staff.