IPL 2022: With IPL 2022 less than a fortnight away, the speculations are running wild on the streets as fans and pundits are still trying to figure out the best playing eleven for every team. The most important part about the team’s perfect playing eleven is how the right chord of balance can be struck.
When we talk about the right chord of balance, a team must have a perfect mix of the youth and the experienced, a decent blend of agility and big-hitting and a decent rotation between their batting and bowling components.
Even though T20 is a batter’s paradise and with the advent of the new rules, life simply becomes easier for the willow-wielders. Irrespective of how well your batters are placed, it is your bowlers who help you in finding the winning note.
As we talk about bowling, it is important for all of us to figure out the right set of arms with the cherry in their hands for a team to excel to the advanced stages of the tournament. In this story, let us try and trace out the best bowling combination for Mumbai Indians.
Jasprit Bumrah will be MI’s ‘X-factor’ in IPL 2022
Needless to say, Jasprit Bumrah aces the charts and will continue to do so in every single team that he plays for. One of the best fast bowlers in world cricket, Bumrah comes with the quiver of a menacing old-school fast bowler’s weapons.
He can mix his pace very efficiently with the variation in his line and lengths. He has a lethal yorker and is capable of hammering the deck pretty hard.
May it be the toe-crushers or the nasty sweet chin music, if you are a batter up against the formidable likes of India’s premium expressman, you better come to the contest with a couple of synthetic jaws all set to be placed at any point in time.
Jaydev Unadkat can be MI’s surprise package in IPL 2022
His initial appearances in the tournament were a forgettable experience for the towering man himself. However, with Jofra Archer unavailable for the upcoming season, Mumbai Indians will be needing someone to turn the wheel for them and who better than the experienced likes of Jaydev Unadkat?
Even though his numbers on the speed gun range between modest to fast, he has honed his pace variations very efficiently. He has also evolved himself as a fine customer in the death overs. More importantly, he has an eye for the timbre. If you are a batter facing him in IPL 2022, you better come up with a wall behind you and the stumps.
Tymal Mills
Even though Mills has had a forgettable experience in his preceding IPL stint, his recent exploits in the international arcade backed by the domestic arena will be a major boost for the Mumbai Indians. He can conjure some searing heat and is very well capable of flickering the ticker between 140 to 147 plus clicks.
He has a very simple run-up and his preferred areas of bowling rotate between the good length to the block hole. As IPL 2022 is slated to be in Mumbai, with the kind of early drift that a bowler gets, Mills can be a fine pick for the power-play.
Murugan Ashwin can be MI’s mystery element in IPL 2022
You may call this a gamble but truth be told, the spinner has no middle way. Either he will produce exceedingly magical figures as the last two editions of the tournament has seen him doing or he will be tossed to the stands by the batters.
Had the tournament been in UAE, it could have been easily said that he was going to be a game-changer. Sadly, the tournament will be played in India unless struck by the unfortunate.
With the kind of spin that Ashwin comes to the picture with, the batters may struggle in picking him out. It will depend on how the surface on which the game will be played behaves on that day. Generally, Indians are such fine players of spin that it will be tough for this man to make a stand but if you have the will, you will always have your way.
Fifth bowler for MI in IPL 2022: Kieron Pollard/ Dewald Brevis/ Tim David/ Daniel Sams/ Riley Meredith
With the kind of foreigners that Mumbai Indians have amassed in their ranks, it is tough to figure out who shall be the one to chip in with those extra overs. Kieron Pollard has been bowling very rarely in his latest outings but can eke out a few crucial overs in the middle.
Dewald Brevis is young but can be a very handy talent with the cherrY in his arms. Tim David’s opening IPL experience was pretty sour but the all-rounder comes with a striking factor about him. Believe it or not, he can rack up decent medium pace and has a knack for wickets.
Daniel Sams and Riley Meredith are known for their fast-bowling menace. But the combination of overseas players that Mumbai may resort to will be deciding the fate of the two.
