IPL 2020: Mumbai Indians' Mitchell McClenaghan Shuts Down Fan Who Said Kolkata Knight Riders' Squad Is The Strongest

Mitch_Savage – This is the name of Mitchell McClenaghan’s Twitter handle and the New Zealand fast-bowler justified it completely on Saturday. The left-arm pacer came up with a hilarious reply when one of his followers opined that Kolkata Knight Riders’ squad looks stronger than any other team’s squad after the auction for next year’s IPL.

The auction for IPL 2020 took place on December 19 in Kolkata. The Knight Riders, who finished fifth last season, made some big buys in the auction. Before the auction, they had released some big names like Chris Lynn, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, Carlos Brathwaite as they let go a total of ten players. Later, they had roped in Mumbai batsman Siddhesh Lad from Mumbai Indians during the trade window.

In the auction, they started by signing up England’s ODI and T20I captain Eoin Morgan. The Knight Riders then all out to secure the services of Australia pace spearhead Pat Cummins who is the leading Test wicket-taker this year. The Kolkata-based outfit spent a whopping amount of INR 15.5 crore to make Cummins the costliest overseas player of all time. They also roped in Rahul Tripathi, Tom Banton and Nikhil Naik to bolster their batting.

Kolkata Knight Riders not the strongest?

Coming to the tweet from Mitchell McClenaghan, the Mumbai Indians pacer said that all the IPL teams look strong for the next season. He opined that next year’s IPL might be the strongest of all time. This is when the fan said that Kolkata Knight Riders’ squad look stronger than any other team. And Mitchell McClenaghan could not help but shut down the fan with a hilarious reply, writing:

“Come now??? What you been smoking?”

Come now??? What you been smoking?

— Mitchell McClenaghan (@Mitch_Savage) December 21, 2019

Meanwhile, Mumbai Indians bought the likes of Chris Lynn, Nathan Coulter-Nile as well as Mohsin Khan, Digvijay Deshmukh at the auction.

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