The Mumbai Indians’ match against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Sunday was the last game together for its current set of players.
The fresh Indian Premier League auctions in November will see the teams virtually getting disbanded with all players, barring four, will be back in the pool. It’s anybody’s guess who the Mumbai Indians management will retain but Sachin Tendulkar said on Sunday that the players should be allowed to stay put where they want to. Tendulkar was asked to give a sense of his feeling after playing the last game with the current crop of players.
He said: “That’s really difficult (rebuilding a side). We have really worked hard to build this team.
“We got together brilliantly. In the third year we held a couple of camps. It had nothing to do with cricket, just to know each other well, playing table tennis, swimming and other sports.
“It was all about building team spirit. Right from the management and owners, they all have put in lots of efforts along with the players and then you realise that team has to change and it’s tough to accept that.
“I feel it’s about building teams, not breaking teams.”
When asked if he was categorically against putting the players back on the block, he said, “I don’t know, it’s not my job to figure what’s right or wrong.
“But I feel if a player is happy to play for a particular team, it’s good if he stays with that team. There is some sort of an identity with that team. We have a huge following now, and it’s also an attachment with a particular team, so that’s how I feel.”
Dravid’s view
Earlier, Rahul Dravid had come out in support of fresh auctions, something the Royal Challengers Bangalore team owner Vijay Mallya had endorsed in his tweet.
Dravid had said that the IPL Governing Counil had no solution but to put the players back in the auction ring.
“You have to understand that two new teams are there. The beauty of the IPL here is the competitiveness, anyone could have won,” Dravid had insisted.
The fresh Indian Premier League auctions in November will see the teams virtually getting disbanded with all players, barring four, will be back in the pool.
It’s anybody’s guess who the Mumbai Indians management will retain but Sachin Tendulkar said on Sunday that the players should be allowed to stay put where they want to. Tendulkar was asked to give a sense of his feeling after playing the last game with the current crop of players.
He said: “That’s really difficult (rebuilding a side). We have really worked hard to build this team.
“We got together brilliantly. In the third year we held a couple of camps. It had nothing to do with cricket, just to know each other well, playing table tennis, swimming and other sports.
“It was all about building team spirit. Right from the management and owners, they all have put in lots of efforts along with the players and then you realise that team has to change and it’s tough to accept that.
“I feel it’s about building teams, not breaking teams.”
When asked if he was categorically against putting the players back on the block, he said, “I don’t know, it’s not my job to figure what’s right or wrong.
“But I feel if a player is happy to play for a particular team, it’s good if he stays with that team. There is some sort of an identity with that team. We have a huge following now, and it’s also an attachment with a particular team, so that’s how I feel.”
Dravid’s view
Earlier, Rahul Dravid had come out in support of fresh auctions, something the Royal Challengers Bangalore team owner Vijay Mallya had endorsed in his tweet.
Dravid had said that the IPL Governing Counil had no solution but to put the players back in the auction ring.
“You have to understand that two new teams are there. The beauty of the IPL here is the competitiveness, anyone could have won,” Dravid had insisted.
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