IPL is nearing as rumors suggest that IPL will start by the end of March and will go on till end of May. The venues for the IPL might be the four grounds in Maharashtra and the playoff and Finals will be played in Ahmedabad, a report stated. All the teams are ready with their squads after the Mega Auctions and fans are excited to know what their playing 11 might look like.
Mumbai Indians is the most successful team in the IPL so far as they have won the IPL title 5 times in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2020. In 2021, Mumbai failed to qualify for the finals as many Mumbai stars were not in their form like Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, and Trent Boult. Mumbai Indians has picked up the deadliest bowling combo this year Bumrah and Jofra Archer, but unfortunately Jofra will miss out on the IPL 2022 due to injury so Tymal Mills will be their backup.
Mumbai Indians has made many stars for the Indian cricket team like Jasprit Bumrah who is the lead bowler of Indian and Hardik Pandya. Mumbai also gave recognition to Suryakumar Yadav who handles the Indian middle order now. Pollard is also a star who is always backed by Mumbai Indians even during his bad form which was in 2020.
Mumbai Indians squad: Rohit Sharma (C), Jasprit Bumrah , Suryakumar Yadav, Kieron Pollard, Ishan Kishan(wk), Dewald Brevis, Basil Thampi, Murugan Ashwin, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, Tilak Varma, Sanjay Yadav, Jofra Archer, Daniel Sams, Tymal Mills, Tim David, Riley Meredith, Arshad Khan, Anmolpreet Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Rahul Buddhi, Hrithik Shokeen, Arjun Tendulkar, Aryan Juyal, Fabian Allen.
Possible Playing 11: Ishan Kishan(wk), Rohit Sharma(C), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Kieron Pollard, Daniel Sams, Jasprit Bumrah, Mayank Markande, Jaydev Unadkat, Tymal Mills.
Mumbai has many players in backup like Dewald Brevis who is also known as Baby AB for his performance in the under-19 World Cup this year. Riley Meredith and Fabian Allen are other backup options for the Mumbai Indians.