MI vs RR: Why is Jason Behrendorff Not Playing Today’s Match IPL? Check MI Playing XI

In an important news update, the Mumbai Indians (MI) have dropped their premier left-arm pacer Jason Behrendorff for their 8th match of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL 2023) season against the Rajasthan Royals (RR) being hosted at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The Mumbai Indians will surely be eyeing to make a strong comeback after having conceded two consecutive losses against Gujarat Titans and Punjab Kings in their last two games. MI still have a total of 3 victories from as many as 7 matches in IPL 2023.

MI vs RR: Why is Jason Behrendorff Not Playing Today’s Match IPL? 

During the toss, it was revealed that left-arm pacer Jason Behrendorff is not included in the MI playing 11 for this MI vs RR match on Sunday. Incidentally, the Aussie fast bowler is not even part of the five substitute members out of which one can come in as an Impact Player at any moment in the game. This seems to be a tactical change as the Mumbai Indians have brought back frontline speedster Jofra Archer. On the other hand, Behrendorff has picked up a total of 8 wickets from 6 matches for Mumbai Indians in the IPL 2023 season so far at an expensive economy of close to 10.

“Thank you (Ravi Shastri wished him on his birthday). We played last year as well against the same opposition on this day and the result went our way, hopefully it does today as well. It is a good track and looks a little dry to me. We wanted to bowl first, we want a score in front of us. It (the season) has been up and down, we have played some good cricket and also lacked consistency. We had a good break and hopefully we can put up a good performance. We have two changes – Jofra and Arshad Khan are back, in place of Behrendorff and Arjun Tendulkar,” said Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma during the toss.

MI Playing 11

1. Ishan Kishan (wk)
2. Rohit Sharma (C)
3. Cameron Green
4. Suryakumar Yadav
5. Tilak Varma
6. Tim David
7. Piyush Chawla
8. Arshad Khan
9. Kumar Kartikeya
10. Riley Meredith
11. Jofra Archer

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Jason Behrendorff IPL 2023 Price

The Mumbai Indians traded Australia’s left-arm pacer Jason Behrendorff at a price of INR 75 Lakh from the Royal Challengers Bangalore ahead of the IPL 2023 auction. He did not played a single game in IPL 2022.

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