Mumbai Indians have signed South African player Tristan Stubbs as a replacement for injured Tymal Mills, who has recently sustained an ankle injury.
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Mumbai Indians have signed South African player Tristan Stubbs as a replacement for injured Tymal Mills, who has recently sustained an ankle injury. With this, he has been ruled out of the remainder of the IPL 2022 season. Mills has so far played five games for Mumbai Indians this season, claiming six wickets which came at an economy of 11.17. He last played on April 16 against Lucknow Super Giants, where he gave away 54 runs from three overs but went wicketless. But it can be guessed that the injury is minor, and he is likely to be fit for the first T20 Blast game on May 26 for Sussex as well.
Tristan Stubbs, however, is a talented middle-order batter and Mumbai bought him for a price of INR 20 lakh (approx USD 26,000). He earned the contract on the back of a stunning domestic season, where he scored 293 runs which came at an average of 48.83 and a strike rate of 183.12 for Warriors in the recently concluded CSA Challenge as well. Over all, he has amassed 506 runs with three half-centuries from 17 T20s, at a strike rate of 157.14 as well. He has also featured in eight first-class and 11 List A games as well. Moroever, he was part of the South Africa A squad for their ongoing tour of Zimbabwe too.
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However, Mumbai Indians are currently placed at the bottom of the points table with only one from 14 games as well. They won their last match and opened the account too in the tournament. After their last win, Rohit Sharma said: “I’d definitely take it (win), that’s how we play, real potential came out today, with the ball specially. They kept applying the pressure. If you keep taking wickets, it’s going to be difficult for them, we did that perfectly today. This is the team we played in the first couple of games exceptfew bowling changes. When you have a season like that, you are not sure of your combination. You want to try out so many things.”
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“The conditions are different. The ball tends to grip here, the pitches are flat in the other venues. We try and field the best combination, it hasn’t worked for eight games. But one thing I can say is, we were not blown away by the opposition, we came really close. Had we won those games, things would have been slightly different. (On Hrithik and Kartikeya) Both of these guys, they are courageous, they want to do something special. It gives me the confidence to bowl them at any given stage. We played very well, bowlers came together, batters did the job as well,” he concluded.
