Mumbai Indians (MI) are struggling within the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) season with solely three wins from seven matches. They are languishing on the ninth place within the factors desk and are scheduled to face Rajasthan Royals within the a thousandth IPL recreation on Sunday on the Wankhede Stadium. Ahead of the encounter, ESPNCricinfo has reported that England pacer Chris Jordan has been signed by the five-time champions.
Notably, the official announcement is but to come back and apparently, there’s suspense over who’s Jordan changing within the MI squad. Injury to key gamers has additionally marred MI’s season this time round. Jasprit Bumrah has been dominated out already whereas Jofra Archer has additionally performed solely two out of seven matches to this point. The remainder of the bowling assault is skinny on expertise and Jordan’s arrival would possibly simply change issues for the aspect. Jordan has already joined the squad as he was noticed with the gamers forward of the RR conflict on the Wankhede Stadium.
As for Jordan, he was launched by CSK after a poor present final season the place he picked up solely two wickets in 4 matches whereas conceding runs at an financial system of 10.51. Overall, Jordan has performed for SRH, PBKS and RCB as effectively earlier than. He has featured in 28 IPL matches to this point selecting 27 wickets at a mean of 30.85 and an financial system of 9.32. Jordan is prominently a demise overs bowler, an space the place MI have struggled rather a lot this season. It stays to be seen if MI will embody him within the enjoying XI for the sport towards RR on Sunday.
Mumbai Indians Squad: Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan(w), Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Kumar Kartikeya, Arjun Tendulkar, Riley Meredith, Piyush Chawla, Jason Behrendorff, Tilak Varma, Sandeep Warrier, Jofra Archer, Vishnu Vinod, Ramandeep Singh, Shams Mulani, Hrithik Shokeen, Akash Madhwal, Duan Jansen, Arshad Khan, Tristan Stubbs, Dewald Brevis, Raghav Goyal, Chris Jordan
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