Can Rohit Sharma move out of Mumbai Indians after IPL 2024 player auction?

The IPL 2024 is a few months away but we can already hear the T20 behemoth approaching. The IPL player auction is as boisterous and attention-grabbing as the main event, bringing with it the possibility of altering player’s career forever with one strike from the auctioneer’s gavel.

For the first time, the IPL auction takes place outside India – at the magnificent Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai on Tuesday, December 19.

It is a mini-auction, where only a handful of slots in each franchise are up for grabs.

However, these mini-auctions tend to throw up incredible results as franchises have decent-sized purses to spend on a handful of names.

This year, a total of 333 players will go under the hammer for 77 slots across 10 teams. Teams have an auction purse raging from $1.5 million to $4.6m.

But that is not the only big news coming out of IPL. Before the auction, all-rounder Hardik Pandya left Gujarat Titans in a bombshell move and returned to Mumbai Indians as captain, taking over from the well-established Rohit Sharma, who led the franchise to five titles.

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