"Cricket will soon have tansfer fees like football": Michael Vaughan reacts to Hardik Pandya's trade amount – Crictoday.com (Cricket News)

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Hardik Pandya is coming back to Mumbai Indians for the Indian Premier League 2024. The five-time champions will pay INR 15 crore to Gujarat Titans to resign the all-rounder. It will be the most expensive trade in the history of IPL.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan has made a bold prediction about the game of cricket. He feels the sport is heading to football’s way of transfers.
“The @hardikpandya7 move back to Mumbai .. it’s clearly happening .. The first sign of transfer fees in cricket like Football !!?? It’s inevitable it would happen soon,’ he wrote.
Football has seen exchange of whopping amount of money for the transfer purposes in the last one decade.
The clubs with filthy rich owners are bringing big and talanted players to win the championship and other tournaments on offer.
This could soon become the norm in the Indian Premier League with big franchise owners targeting stars to assemble a winning squad.
Meanwhile, Hardik made his IPL debut with Mumbai Indians in 2015 and went on to win four titles with them.
He was not retained by Mumbai in 2022 and the big hitter joined Gujarat as their captain. GT won the title in their maiden season, with Hardik leading from the front.
Titans were the losing finalists in the next season as Chennai Super Kings got better of them at the Narendra Modi Stadium.