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Mumbai Indians had a dismal marketing campaign within the 2022 season of the Indian Premier League. They didn’t string sufficient wins below their belt and ended the league stage because the wood spoon holders, with solely eight factors to their identify.
In a bid to make amends for the approaching season, Mumbai parted methods with 13 of their gamers, together with all-rounders comparable to Daniel Sams, Fabian Allen, and Kieron Pollard (retired from IPL). With the trio launched, MI entered the IPL 2023 public sale searching for multi-faceted cricketers. They went hammer and tongs to signal Cameron Inexperienced and grabbed him at an insane sum of INR 17.5 crore.
Inexperienced is just not a lot skilled campaigner within the T20 circuit, having performed solely 21 matches within the shortest format, of which solely eight are worldwide video games. Due to this fact, exhibiting a number of religion in a participant who’s but to ascertain himself within the T20 area may not be a sensible resolution. As a substitute of the teen, MI might have signed somebody who’s a constant performer within the shortest format.
Listed here are three gamers MI might’ve picked as a substitute of Cameron Inexperienced:
3. Sikandar Raza
Sikandar Raza has been a bankable identify within the T20 circuit. He has featured in 160 T20 video games and aggregated 3123 runs at a strike charge of 129.47. On the bowling entrance, the 36-year-old has picked up 83 wickets at an economic system of seven.31. He has been a game-changer with each bat and ball and has additionally proven his prowess within the worldwide area, hammering 1259 runs in 66 T20Is and bagging 38 wickets at an economic system of seven.18.
The Sialkot-born all-rounder set the T20 World Cup 2022 on hearth along with his exploits on the cricket subject. Raza smashed 219 runs in eight video games at a strike charge of 147.97 and bagged 10 wickets at an economic system of 6.50. He was additionally on the forefront in a historic win towards Pakistan, bagging a three-wicket haul.
Mumbai Indians lacked multi-faceted cricketers on their facet they usually might have appeared to signal Raza on the IPL 2023 public sale. The Zimbabwe cricketer can act as a floater within the batting line-up and is a four-over financial institution with the ball. Thus, his inclusion might have added depth to the Mumbai facet. Nonetheless, MI didn’t increase their paddle to signal the ace all-rounder.
