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The three mini-auction moves that actually moved the needle
Not every ₹20 crore deal is a power play. Here's what the smart franchises bought, and who will regret their silence.
Kabir Shah
Yesterday · 9 min read
The mini-auction is over, and if you read only the headline purchases you'd think the league's balance shifted dramatically. It didn't. It shifted — just not where the headlines looked.
Three buys, in particular, quietly rewrote the power-rankings. Two of them cost less than ₹2 crore.
Below, a frame-by-frame walkthrough of the three deals that will matter in eight months, and the one big-ticket buy that already looks like a mistake.
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Kabir Shah
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