IPL 2022: 3 players MI might release before the season ends
Mumbai Indians (MI) are having a shocker of an Indian Premier League (IPL) season. The five-time champions have lost all six of their league matches so far and are rock-bottom of the IPL point table.
The mega auction seems to have disturbed their team balance, which Rohit Sharma and Co. are now desperately trying to rediscover. The Mumbai-based franchise are struggling in every department and are now left looking for a hero to take them out of this slump.
What's even more shocking is that none of Mumbai's defeats have been a close one. The closest they came to a victory was against the Kolkata Knight Riders, but Pat Cummins' whirlwind knock broke their hearts.
With the IPL team failing to perform collectively, here's a look at three players whom the franchise could release even before the end of the ongoing IPL season.
#1 Daniel Sams
Most runs in an over (2022 IPL)
34 - Cummins vs D Sams
28 - D Karthik vs Mustafizur*
28 - Brevis vs R Chahar
26 - Buttler vs Thampi
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Mumbai have spent INR 2.6 crore on the Australian bowling all-rounder but he has failed to make any sort of positive impact so far. Sams' last two IPL stints for Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore were disappointing too.
The 29-year-old played Mumbai's first three matches of the season and was taken to the cleaners by opposition batters. He has conceded 139 runs in just 11 overs at an economy rate of 12.63, and picked up just one wicket.
Sams has since been replaced by Jaydev Unadkat in the Mumbai line-up.
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#2 Jaydev Unadkat
Basically, #MI need Bumrah to bowl 10 out of the 20 overs.....
Jaydev Unadkat, bought for INR 1.30 crore in the IPL 2022 auction, replaced Daniel Sams in the Mumbai XI after their first three matches of the season. But he too has been a disappointment.
In three matches, the 30-year-old has picked up four wickets while conceding runs at a strike-rate of 8.83. Considering Mumbai have Basil Thampi in the squad as well, the impending arrival of Jofra Archer next season could cut short Unadkat's stint with the Mumbai-based franchise.
#1 Anmolpreet Singh
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Anmolpreet Singh is sold to Mumbai Indians! 🇮🇳🤩
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The Punjab batter was a puzzling buy for MI since he strikes at just 106 in T20s and wasn't great last season for them either. He was roped in for Mumbai's matches against Delhi Capitals and Rajasthan Royals, and he failed in both.
Against the Capitals, Anmolpreet scored just a nine-ball eight after coming in at No. 3 with Mumbai cruising at 67-1. In his second outing of the season against the Royals, the 24-year-old walked in at No. 3 again in a 194-run chase and departed after adding just five runs.