Mumbai Indians roped in Nuwan Thushara the Sri Lankan pacer for 4.40 crores within the IPL 2024 public sale. The pacer with an analogous bowling motion to Lasith Malinga has already performed within the Lankan Premier League, the Abu Dhabi T10 League the Sri Lankan nationwide cricket staff.
Alongside Nuwan Thushara, Mumbai Indians additionally purchased Dilshan Madushanka for 4.60 crores and South African rising speedster Gerald Coetzee for five crores. The three-man tempo assault is taken into account to be the next-gen of Mumbai Indians alongside Jasprit Bumrah.
Talking after the IPL 2024 public sale, the Mumbai Indians head coach spoke in regards to the tempo assault that the administration has been profitable in getting. He stated that MI acquired the likes of Coetzee and Madushanka at a comparatively cheaper worth than anticipated.
“We have been shocked that we acquired each of them at a really low-cost worth. We’re actually pleased with the 2 worldwide picks we’ve got gotten to date,” stated Boucher.
He additional spoke about Dilshan Madushanka’s acquisition and stated that they bagged him based mostly on his latest performances. He picked up 21 wickets within the World Cup and was Sri Lanka’s highest wicket-taker within the competitors.
Nuwan Thushara’s Choice Was Based mostly On His Latest Performances: Mark Boucher
“We made the choice to go for him as a result of he’s a younger, up and coming famous person. He’s a 3 part bowler. He swings the brand new ball properly and has good change ups on the demise. The choice is only on the idea of what he has been doing of late and I’m certain he’ll add plenty of worth to our staff” he stated.
He then spoke in regards to the thought behind the acquisition of Nuwan Thushara. He stated that along with his unorthodox motion, he’s the X-factor for the staff.
” Nuwan Thushara got here into the equation within the final month or two. I used to be really on the T10 competitors that was performed in Abu Dhabi. I noticed him there he was bowling nicely, he picked up plenty of wickets and was not getting hit on the demise as nicely. Polly was really enjoying in that competitors as nicely so he really acquired to face him.” he added additional.
Boucher additionally eluded to the truth that Lasith Malinga has labored with him earlier than and watched him bowl from shut quarters. Malinga will likely be again to Mumbai Indians as the brand new quick bowling coach.
“Mali has labored with him earlier than as nicely. It was the appropriate decide for all of us we have been all very blissful. Mahela has been round him as nicely so it was the appropriate decide for all of us. He provides us some nice variation and we’ve got seen that within the IPL, when you have acquired one thing totally different you turn into a little bit of an X-factor participant and he will likely be our X-factor participant” Boucher concluded saying.
Mumbai Indians IPL 2024 Squad: Hardik Pandya (Traded), Akash Madhwal, Arjun Tendulkar, Cameron Inexperienced, Dewald Brevis, Ishan Kishan, Jason Behrendorff, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, N. Tilak Varma, Nehal Wadhera, Piyush Chawla, Rohit Sharma, Romario Shepherd (Taded), Shams Mulani, Surya Kumar Yadav, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Gerald Coetzee, Dilshan Madhushanka, Shreyas Gopal, Nuwan Thushara, Naman Dheer, Anshul Kamboj, Mohammad Nabi, Shivalik Sharma.
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