Mumbai Indians change injured Dilshan Madushanka with South Africa teenager Kwena Maphaka
Mumbai Indians shall be with out Dilshan Madushanka for IPL 2024. The Sri Lanka quick bowler picked up a hamstring damage throughout a tour of Bangladesh earlier this month and has been dominated out of your entire T20 match. Seventeen-year-old South Africa quick bowler Kwena Maphaka has been named as his substitute.
Mumbai had invested a major sum on Madushanka – INR 4.6 crore (USD 554,000 approx.) and he stood an opportunity to play within the first XI as a powerplay specialist. Madushanka’s capacity to swing the brand new ball was on present within the ODI World Cup in 2023, the place he was the third-highest wicket-taker (21) behind Mohammed Shami (24) and Adam Zampa (23).
Maphaka is in his remaining 12 months of faculty – he goes to the identical one as Kagiso Rabada, St Stithians in Johannesburg. He was as a result of spend his summer season holidays with Mumbai after which return residence, however these plans have modified and he’ll as an alternative spend March, April and Could with a workforce that features quick bowlers like Jasprit Bumrah and coaches like Lasith Malinga.
Maphaka was one of the eye-catching gamers within the 2024 Underneath-19 World Cup, taking South Africa to the semi-finals together with his haul of 21 wickets from six ODIs at a mean of 9.71 and economic system charge of three.81. No one has taken extra wickets in a single version of the youth World Cup. The left-arm seamer’s team-mates say he bowls 140 kph and is understood for his inswing, which places him in the identical mould as Madushanka.
Mumbai have six different specialist quick bowlers of their squad, though one in every of them, one other potential starter, Gerald Coetzee, is nursing a groin damage. The brand new captain Hardik Pandya, having introduced that he shall be match to bowl once more, would possibly nicely be wanted to supply assist to the Bumrah-led bowling assault.
