Australia quick bowler Jason Behrendorff, who was a part of the Mumbai Indians squad, mentioned on Tuesday that he was dissatisfied to overlook this 12 months’s IPL after fracturing his leg in a “freak coaching incident”. On Monday, England’s Luke Wooden changed Behrendorff, a left-arm pacer, within the MI squad.
Final season, Behrendorff was a important member of a MI tempo line that lacked the star energy of Indian fast Jasprit Bumrah and English pacer Jofra Archer. He led MI to the playoffs with 14 wickets in 12 matches, a mean of 27.64. Behrendorff was topped Australia’s best males’s T20 participant in 2023 after impressing along with his efforts for the Dishevelled Greens within the shortest format.
He led Australia’s assault throughout a five-match sequence towards India in December final 12 months. With six wickets, Behrendorff completed because the Dishevelled Greens’ main wicket-taker. Earlier this 12 months, he claimed a wicket every in Australia’s three-match house T20I sequence towards the West.
“Sadly, there was a freak accident at coaching final week which resulted in my leg being damaged. It wasn’t anybody’s fault, only a very unfortunate incident,” Behrendorff wrote in a social media submit.
The information of Behrendorff’s absence comes only some days earlier than MI’s opening IPL 2024 conflict towards Gujarat Titans on March 24 on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The prospect of Behrendorff combining with the likes of Jasprit Bumrah and Gerald Coetzee is one thing that can be massively missed by the massive fanbase of Mumbai Indians within the upcoming season of the event.
“I’ve cherished being part of the MI Household and I’m completely gutted to be lacking this 12 months’s IPL.” Although the 33-year-old did not elaborate on the incident, a report in Espncricinfo mentioned that he suffered the harm whereas batting within the nets on the WACA Floor final week.
“Behrendorff was batting within the nets on the WACA floor final Thursday forward of departing to India to play within the IPL with Mumbai Indians when he suffered a fractured left fibula after a ball missed his pad and struck him flush simply above the left ankle,” the report mentioned.
It’s but to see how the arrival of Wooden alters MI’s plans and construction of their already good bowling assault, as they battle again from their Qualifier 2 elimination in IPL 2023.
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