Nuwan Thushara can help Mumbai Indians with death bowling, they have yorkers like Jasprit Bumrah, yet he has been kept on the bench in IPL 2024.

IPL 2024: The condition of Mumbai Indians is not very good in the current season of the Indian Premier League. In IPL 2024, MI has been able to register only 3 wins in the 7 matches played so far and under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya, the team is at number 7 in the points table. Bowling, especially in the death overs, has proved to be the weak link for Mumbai Indians so far. In the match against Punjab Kings, Ashutosh Sharma had destroyed the Mumbai bowlers. In the match against CSK too, Hardik Pandya and Akash Madhwal were badly beaten in the death overs. Despite all this, captain Hardik Pandya and MI management have kept Nuwan Thushara on the bench.

Nuwan Thushara has accurate yorkers

Nuwan Thushara was bought by Mumbai Indians in the IPL 2024 auction by paying Rs 4.80 crore. He has action like Malinga and also an accurate yorker like Jasprit Bumrah. Thushra has so far taken 11 wickets while playing 8 T20 matches for Sri Lanka at the international level. Although Jasprit Bumrah is consistently bowling well, he is not getting help from other bowlers. Even captain Pandya gave away 26 runs in just one over against CSK. In such a situation, keeping wicket-taking bowler Nuwan Thushara, worth around Rs 5 crore, on the bench is not in the interest of Mumbai Indians. Thushara recently created a sensation by taking a hat-trick in the T20 match against Bangladesh. It is not easy to read his action.

The batting of Mumbai Indians has been doing well so far as the team has scored more than 180 runs 5 times in the 7 matches played in IPL 2024. But if the combination of Jasprit Bumrah and Nuwan Thushara is seen in bowling, then it will not be easy for any team to penetrate the bowling attack of MI. The poor condition of Mumbai's bowling is evident from the fact that Gerald Coetzee has taken 12 wickets so far, but has also given away runs at an economy rate of around 10. The third highest wicket taker from the team is Akash Madhwal, who currently has only 5 wickets in his name. The team is progressing on the basis of only 2 bowlers, in such a situation, bringing Thushara in the playing eleven will work to strengthen MI.

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