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#7 Andre Russell might have ended up in the Mumbai Indians squad in 2014
Back in 2014, Andre Russell was not that big a match winner as he is today. He was a part of the Delhi franchise in IPL 2013 but the Jamaican had an underwhelming season and thus, Delhi released him ahead of the 2014 season.
In the auction room when Andre Russell's name came up, Mumbai Indians submitted a bid of 50 lakh INR (Russell's base price) first, just for Kolkata Knight Riders to raise it to 60 lakh and take the all-rounder home.
Never would have Mumbai Indians thought in their wildest dreams that they were committing the blunder of the decade. Such was Russell's performance for Kolkata that four years later when all the teams were being reshuffled, they decided to retain him for a price of 7 Crores INR (almost 12 times the amount he was bought at).
No one knows the way things would have turned out had Mumbai bid further for Russell in 2014.
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