IPL 2024: Strength and weakness of MI; Mumbai Indians, the most successful team of the Indian Premier League, will start its campaign in the current season against Gujarat Titans on March 24. The team has won 5 titles so far. The impact of leadership change may be visible on the team’s performance this season.
The franchise appointed Hardik Pandya as the new captain in place of Rohit Sharma. The team is full of game changers. In the top order, Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav have scored more than 1100 runs in the last 3 seasons. Pandya is also coming in with 833 runs in the last two seasons.
Injuries to fast bowlers can trouble the bowling department. At present, Jasprit Bumrah and Gerald Coetzee are fit, but left arm pacer Jason Behrendorff has been ruled out of the league due to injury. Dilshan Madushanka is also injured. And the spin department looks weak. Today we will talk about MI’s strengths and weaknesses in the IPL 2024 series.
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Batting was strong, bowling has become stronger now
In the last auction, Mumbai bought 8 players including 4 foreigners. The team has included players like Hardik Pandya, Gerald Cooties and Dilshan Madushanka. The team’s batting was already strong, now with the arrival of Pandya, Cootji and Dilshan, the bowling has also become stronger. Jasprit Bumrah also could not play last season, he will be seen playing this time.
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Ishan Kishan, Rohit Sharma, Tilak Verma, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya (captain), Mohammad Nabi, Tim David, Piyush Chawla, Gerald Coetzee, Jasprit Bumrah and Dilshan Madushanka/Nuwan Thushara.
Impact: Nehal Vadhera
Strength
- Strong Batting Order: Mumbai has a world class batting order. Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan will open. Then Tilak Verma’s turn will come. In the middle are explosive batsmen Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David and Pandya. Apart from these, Nehal Wadhera can provide depth to the batting by becoming an impact player.
- Lots of all-rounders, good finishers too: Mumbai team has 9 all-rounders. He has a good combination of spin and pace bowling. In such a situation, after the captain, there will be many options for batting and bowling.
- Pace attack became more sharp: The fast bowling attack became stronger with the arrival of Gerald Coetzee, Nuwan Thushara, Dilshan Madushanka and Pandya. Bumrah will lead the pace attack, which has made the team stronger.
Weakness
- Change of captain can have an impact: Rohit Sharma gave all 5 titles to Mumbai under his captaincy. After removing him, the team now made Hardik the captain. Under his leadership, Hardik also took Gujarat Titans to the finals for 2 seasons and also made them champions once. In such a situation, it will be important to see which way the decision to change the captain will take.
- Pacers may get injured : Left arm pacer Behrendorff is out of the league due to injury, Madushanka is also injured. Thushara and Bumrah also keep getting injured. In such a situation, if workload management is not done properly then the team’s bowling may become weak.
- Not much spin option: Right arm leg spinner Piyush Chawla and left arm chinaman ball Kumar Karthikeya are the 2 experienced spinners in Mumbai. Apart from these, Shivalik Sharma is the only spinner in the team. Spin options are less, so the team may face difficulty on pitches conducive to spin.
