“At Least 30 Crore”: Fans Talk About Jasprit Bumrah After Starc, Cummins Earn Over 20 Cr

After seeing the huge prices of Cummins and Starc, Indian fans felt Jasprit Bumrah would go for over INR 30 crore if he enters the auction.

Only 90 minutes after Pat Cummins became the most expensive IPL player ever, his teammate Mitchell Starc shattered that record and owned it as the Kolkata Knight Riders spent INR 24.5 crore on the left-arm pacer in the IPL 2024 auction.

This led to Indian fans and others wondering how much money Bumrah is missing by being retained by the Mumbai Indians and not coming in the IPL auctions.

What is the salary of Jasprit Bumrah in IPL with Mumbai Indians?

Jasprit Bumrah was retained for INR 12 crore by the Mumbai Indians ahead of the IPL 2022 mega-auction, and has been retained for the same price since then.

Mitchell Starc returns to the IPL after 8 years, and does it in some style by shattering records and hogging headlines.

About 90 minutes after his Australian teammate and captain, Pat Cummins, had become the most expensive player in the IPL, breaking Sam Curran’s INR 18.5 crore record from the last auction and became the first player to break the INR 20 crore marker as SRH bought him for INR 20.5 crore, Mitchell Starc rocked up and straightaway there was a fierce bidding war between multiple franchises, culminating in KKR buying him for a whopping INR 24.75 crore.

Jasprit Bumrah is arguably the best white-ball bowler in the world. On recent form, he took more wickets than both Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins in the recently-concluded World Cup 2023 and almost was unhittable at times during the first powerplay.

Starting from 2013, Bumrah has played all his career with the Mumbai Indians, seeing his price go up from INR 10 lakh, at which MI bought him in 2013, to 7 crore in 2018 to 12 crore in 2022. It is very certain that if Bumrah comes in the auction, he will go for over 15 crore, possibly some team would even break the INR 25 crore barrier for Bumrah, given he is India’s best white-ball bowler, especially in the death overs.

As Starc and Cummins both went for over 20 crore in the IPL 2024 auction, fans made some funny tweets on Bumrah.

Reaction of fans about Jasprit Bumrah after Starc and Cummins go for over INR 20 crore each: