Ex-SunRisers Hyderabad head coach Tom Moody opined that ₹18 crore player has to be a match-winner and questioned "Does Mumbai Indians (MI) captain Hardik Pandya deserve to be ₹18 crore player? Is he worth it?" Moody stated that he would put MI's Jasprit Bumrah and Suryakumar Yadav in the ₹18 crore bracket and Pandya in ₹14 crore.