Mumbai Indians team in IPL 2017 Auction: K Gowtham, Karn Sharma go big

That's all from the auction room from Bangalore here today. Mumbai has the players to make a mark in this edition's IPL. They will go out there with all guns blazing and go for glory.
Let the games begin!

Here's a list of players that Mumbai picked up in the auctions today:
Nicholas Pooran for 30 lakhs INR
Mitchell Johnson for 2 crores INR
K Gowtham for 2 crores INR
Karn Sharma for 3.2 crores INR
Saurabh Tiwary for 30 lakhs INR
Asela Gunaratne for 30 lakhs INR
Kulwant Khejroliya for 10 lakhs INR

The final session concludes and with that the auctions for the 2017 IPL.

Mumbai didn't bother bidding for any players in the final session. They had their set of 27 players.

Manoj Tiwary will play for Pune. Bought at 50L.

Darren Bravo sold to Kolkata for 50L.

Teams now have an opportunity to recall players previously unsold earlier during the day.

The final session of the auctions for IPL 2017 will commence now.

"It's all about winning matches and getting to the knock-out stages," says Jayawardene.

Jayawardene, the head coach of Mumbai - "Was a bit nervous going into the IPL".

The teams can now ask for a set of three players that they desire to be reintroduced into the auction. We're into the final phase of the auction right here now.

In a first, Pratham Singh is bought by Gujarat for 10L. The Mumbai bench is sitting quiet and pretty for now.

Mehedi Hasan, the wonder kid from Bangladesh is here next. Mumbai not interested. He goes unsold.

Khejroliya, a complete unknow entity, will don Mumbai colours this year. Mumbai buy him for 10L. Big smiles across the Mumbai table.

Remember Munaf Patel? The fast bowler who won the 2011 world cup...Gujarat pick him up for 30L. The Mumbai bench didn't move an inch there.

Meanwhile, Punjab buys Darren Sammy for 30L.

Surely, Mahela had everything to do with that buy.

No one counters the bid and Mumbai pocket Gunarathana for a mere 30L. That's surely a bargain buy as he's won the past 3 games for Sri Lanka on his own.

A Gunarathana comes up next and Mumbai goes for him.

Mohammed Siraj has triggered another bidding war here. Bangalore and Hyderabad are after him.
Mohammed Siraj is sold to Hyderabad for a whopping 2.60 Crore.

Jayawardene whispers into the owners' ears as Mohammed Siraj comes up next. They don't bid for him though.

The owners take a moment to sip a cup of tea as players continue to roll.

Remember, Mumbai still has 4.05 crore to spare.

A bunch of IND U-19 players come and go. Mumbai passes all of them.

Ben Laughlin goes to Hyderabad. Mumbai was uninterested in him.

Akash Ambani consults with Mahela Jayawardene. Planning their next move...

Mumbai not interested in Manoj Tiwary. He remains unsold.

Darren Bravo goes unsold.

A bunch of Indian players come and go. No bids from Mumbai just yet.

Imran Tahir, currently ranked No.1 in the T20 and ODI bowling charts, goes unsold. He'll be disappointed for sure. What more can a player do.

"Ishant Sharma remains unsold in today's auction," says the auctioneer.
Ishant fans aren't going to like that one bit.

At 3.50Crore, Coulter-Nile goes to Kolkata.

Coulter Nile triggers the first bidding war in the post lunch session. Hyderabad and Kolkata are at it for him.

Bairstow goes unsold again.

Irfan Pathan comes and goes. Mumbai steer clear.

No competition and Mumbai pocket Tiwary for 30L.

Saurabh Tiwary is in and Mumbai go for it at 30L.

Martin Guptill sold to Punjab for 50L. The first pick in the post lunch session. We're well and truly underway here.

The players that will be presented now are those that are yet to appear in the auction and/ or those that the team would like to re-appear.

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— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) February 20, 2017

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Their remaining purse is now at 4.05 Crore

Here's the list of players that Mumbai have picked up in the auction so far:
Nicholas Pooran to Mumbai Indians for 30 lakhs INR
Mitchell Johnson to Mumbai Indians for 2 crores INR
K Gowtham to Mumbai Indians for 2 crores INR
Karn Sharma to Mumbai Indians for 3.2 crores INR

33 players have now been sold in the morning session so far. T Mills, Rashid Khan, Aniket Choudhary and Natarajan were the highlight buys from this session.

Mumbai have their pacers sorted out and will just watch this phase of auction action.

Manpreet Gony is up next and Kolkata and Gujarat are interested.

There was an intense back and forth war right there between Sehwag and the owners of Gujarat for Varun Aaron.
Punjab finally won the bidding war for Aaron at 2.80Crore.

Remember Jaydev Unadkat? He played a Test for IND in South Africa a couple of years ago. He's sold to Pune for 30L.