New Delhi: Five-time champion Mumbai Indians Back to home turf – Iconic Wankhede Stadium – Ahead of the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League.
Mumbai will play their first match here on April 8 against arch-rivals Chennai Super Kings.
All the players were excited about coming to the Wankhede as they started their training sessions for the upcoming season from Saturday. The players underwent intense training under floodlights, sweating it out in the nets and engaging with the coaching team on training and techniques.
In IPL 2022, Mumbai Indians, led by India’s all format captain Rohit SharmaWinning just four out of 14 league stage matches, they finished at the bottom of the points table. For IPL 2023They will be without pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah for the first time in ten years due to a back injury.
Also, they will be without Australia fast bowler Jhye Richardson, who recently underwent hamstring surgery to rectify his long-standing issues. As of now, Mumbai has not named replacements for Bumrah and Richardson.
Talking about the coaching staff, Kieron Pollard will be the batting coach for this season. They also have a new head coach in former South African coach Mark Boucher, along with former USA coach and veteran Indian domestic coach J.J. Arunkumar is the assistant batting coach.
He is also joined by Shane Bond and James Payment as bowling and fielding coach.
He belongs to the side respectively. In the IPL 2023 players’ auction held in December last year, Mumbai bought Australian fast bowler Cameron Green for Rs 17.5 crore.
He included veteran India leg-spinner Piyush Chawla, uncapped South African all-rounder Dwayne Jansen, wicketkeeper-batsman Vishnu Vinod from Kerala, left-arm spinner Shams Mulani from Mumbai, left-arm batsman Nehal Wadhera from Punjab and left-arm spinner Raghav from Haryana. Chosen Goyal as well. ,
Mumbai will begin their IPL 2023 campaign against Royal Challengers Bangalore on April 2 at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
(With inputs from IANS)
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