IPL 2022 – Is Mumbai Indians Upset? After 13 long years of relationship with Mumbai Indians (MI), Sri Lankan cricket legend Lasith Malinga decided to move to Rajasthan Royals (RR). Malinga’s appointmment as RR Bowling coach seems hasn’t gone down well with MI. The MI camp is surprised and disappointed too. But RR’s Director of Cricket Kumar Sangakkara has tried clearing the air on Malinga’s signing with RR – Follow IPL 2022 LIVE Updates with InsideSport.IN
According to Sangakkara contrary to news reports about MI being upset with Malinga, their coach Mahela Jayawardena is actually happy.
“I think Mahela Jayawardena is happy that Lasith’s got this opportunity. It was always the case that Mumbai will be interested. But they have a full coaching unit. We are lucky Malinga decided to come to us, Sangakkara said.
IPL 2022: Is Mumbai Indians upset with Lasith Malinga joining Rajasthan Royals? Kumar Sangakkara clears the AIR: Check OUT
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— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) March 17, 2022
We know we had quite a bit of work to do in the off-season with regards to our team. I think we managed to identify the key areas which needed our attention and having had a proper process when it comes to selecting players at the auction, we managed to kind of hit the markers that we set for ourselves. I think the franchise has done an amazing job to put this exciting and strong squad together,” said Sangakkara in an official statement
Malinga Mumbai Indians Career: Malinga started his IPL career with Mumbai Indians in 2008 and stayed with them till he retired after IPL 2020.
According to InsideSport MoneyBall, during his 12 years IPL career he earned 48.22 Crore total salary from MI.
IPL 2022: Why did Lasith Malinga decide to be the bowling coach of the Rajasthan Royals?
- Malinga and Kumar Sangakkara have known each other for close to 15 years
- It was under Sangakkara’s leadership that Malinga blossomed as a fast bowler
- Mumbai Indians already have Shane Bond and Zaheer Khan as bowling mentors
- Coaching RR’s fast bowlers offers Malinga a wider scope and gives him the opportunity to explore
- The Lankan legend has also achieved a lot of success at MI as a bowler and mentor
IPL 2022: Is Mumbai Indians upset with Lasith Malinga joining Rajasthan Royals? Kumar Sangakkara clears the AIR: Check OUT
Meanwhile, the Royals skipper Sanju Samson, Yuzvendra Chahal, and Devdutt Padikkal have arrived in Mumbai ahead of the pre-IPL camp. RR will kick off their campaign by playing a match against SRH on March 29.
Rajasthan Royal Full Squad and Player salary: Sanju Samson (14 Cr) / Jos Butler (10 Cr) / Yashasvi Jaiswal (4 Cr) / R. Ashwin (5 Cr) / Trent Boult (8 Cr) / Shimron Hetmyer (8.25 Cr) / Devdutt Padikkal (7.75 Cr) / Prasidh Krishna (10 Cr) / Yuzvendra Chahal (6.5 Cr) / Riyan Parag (3.8 Cr) / KC Cariappa (0.3 Cr) / Navdeep Saini (2.6 Cr) / Obed McCoy (0.75 Cr) / Annunay Singh (0.2 Cr) / Kuldeep Sen (0.2 Cr) / Karun Nair (1.4 Cr) / Dhruv Jurel (0.2 Cr) / Tejas Baroka (0.2 Cr) / Kuldip Yadav (0.2 Cr) / Shubham Garwal (0.2 Cr) / James Neesham (1.5 Cr) / Nathan Coulter Nile (2.0 Cr) Darryl Mittchell (0.75 Cr) / Rassie Van Der Dussen (1.0 Cr).
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