Mumbai Indians pacer Jason Behrendorff said that he’s “absolutely gutted” after an harm dominated him out of your entire Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 season. Behrendorff broke his leg whereas coaching final week and was changed by English left-arm pacer Luke Wooden. Based on cricket.com.au, earlier than leaving for India, the ball struck the leg of the 33-year-old on the WACA Floor whereas batting within the nets. Behrendorff on Tuesday took to Instagram and wished a profitable season for the five-time champions and was hopeful to return subsequent yr.
“Unfortunately, there was a freak accident at training last week which resulted in my leg being broken. It wasn’t anyone’s fault, just a very unlucky incident. I have loved being a part of the MI family and am absolutely gutted to be missing this year’s IPL. Wishing@mumbaiindians a successful season and hopefully I’ll have the opportunity to be back next year,” Behrendorff wrote on Instagram.
Final season, Behrendorff was one of many key performers of an MI tempo unit, disadvantaged of the star energy of Indian fast Jasprit Bumrah and English pacer Jofra Archer. He guided MI to the playoffs together with his 14 wickets in 12 matches at a mean of 27.64.
Behrendorff was named Australia’s finest males’s T20 participant for 2023 after he made a powerful impression together with his performances for the Dishevelled Greens within the shortest format.
He spearheaded Australia’s assault in the course of the five-match collection towards India in December final yr. With 6 scalps to his identify, Behrendorff ended up because the main wicket-taker for the Dishevelled Greens.
Earlier this yr, he went on to assert a wicket every in Australia’s three-match residence T20I collection towards the West Indies.
He additionally starred with the ball for the Perth Scorchers in the course of the Large Bash League (BBL). The left-arm pacer picked up 16 wickets at 15.87 in 10 matches.
His latest run of kind would have performed an important function in breaking by Australia’s T20 World Cup squad. Nevertheless, he’ll now be in a race towards time to get match and put his identify in rivalry for the extremely anticipated event.
MI will kick off their marketing campaign towards Gujarat Titans on the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday.
MI IPL 204 squad: Rohit Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, N. Tilak Varma, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Luke Wooden, Romario Shepherd, Hardik Pandya (c), Gerald Coetzee, Dilshan Madushanka, Shreyas Gopal, Nuwan Thushara, Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Mohammad Nabi, Shivalik Sharma.
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