Three-time IPL champion team Mumbai Indians are all set to kick off their pre-season camp from today at Reliance Corporate Park. The franchise took to Twitter to confirm the news.
?? Training begins today ?
?: Reliance Corporate Park#CricketMeriJaan @IPL pic.twitter.com/LjMLo2ZL5g— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) March 12, 2019
Many of the IPL teams have already started their pre-season camps in recent times and Mumbai Indians also kicked off their preparations 11 days prior to the start of the tournament where the members of the team will regroup again.
The coaches of Mumbai Indians have already landed in Mumbai. The coaching staff of Mumbai Indians includes likes of Mahela Jayawardene, Shane Bond, Robin Singh, Rahul Sanghvi and others.
Captain Rohit Sharma will have a late arrival in the camp as he is a part of Indian team for the ongoing series against Australia.
He is also expected to take a rest for few days after tomorrow’s ODI before joining the camp.
Going into the World Cup, the international players will take ample rest and hence, Rohit will surely have a later arrival in the camp.
Australia’s Jason Behrendorff will not be attending the camp as he is also a part of the national team.
After the fifth ODI tomorrow, he will fly to UAE with the national team for the five-match ODI series against Pakistan. He was retained by the franchise despite the fact that he did not play the last season due to an injury.
The other player who will miss the pre-season camp will be Quinton de Kock.
He is a part of the ODI squad of the series against Sri Lanka and might also play the T20I series, which will also see him miss the first few games of the season
He was bought by Mumbai Indians from Royal Challengers Bangalore.
At IPL auction, Mumbai Indians bought Yuvraj Singh, Lasith Malinga, Barinder Sran, Anmolpreet Singh, Pankaj Jaiswal and Rasikh Dar.
The focus will be on Yuvraj Singh, who was bought by the team in the second round of the auction. He was unsold in the first round of the auction.
The upcoming IPL auction will be a make or break tournament for the Indian all-rounder as this is probably the final time when he is playing the T20 league.