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The defending champions suffered a group stage exit in the eleventh edition of the IPL after their surprising 11 run defeat against the Delhi Daredevils at the Feroz Shaw Kotla on Sunday. They finished with just six wins in their fourteen league matches in IPL 2018, with just a victory away from securing a playoff berth. Many of their players were top notch throughout the season. Youngsters like Ishan Kishan and Mayank Markande were top notch for them this season.
Hardik Pandya was exceptional in his all-round abilities scoring 260 runs and picking up 18 wickets. Local boy Suryakumar Yadav and Krunal Pandya too played their part very well. But some of the players failed to step up for Mumbai, which led them to a surprise exit this season. let us now look at the players who let them down this season.
#3 Kieron Pollard (Mumbai Indians)
Since the third edition of the IPL, Pollard has been an integral part of the Mumbai Indians squad scoring more than 2000 runs while picking up 50-plus wickets.
He has won three titles so far with the Mumbai Indians- 2013, 2015 and 2017.
A match winner and an exceptional all-rounder, Pollard was retained by the Mumbai Indians using the Right-to-match card at the 2018 auctions for INR 5.4 crore.
In the nine matches he has played this season, Pollard has scored just 133 runs. Owing to his poor form he was left out of the squad for five games- a surprising move given his all-round prowess.
A big-hitter and a useful bowler, Pollard has failed to replicate the magic of last season where he scored 385 runs in 17 matches for Mumbai guiding them to a record third title. Pollard has certainly let Mumbai down this season.
#2 Rohit Sharma
The most successful player in the IPL history has failed to live up to the expectations of the fans and franchise this season.
Hitman had a sensational run in 2017, as he led Mumbai to a record third IPL title. Thereby, he became the most successful skipper in the IPL (three titles) surpassing Gautam Gambhir and Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
This season, the Men in Blue retained their skipper for a whopping INR 15 crore. Sharma, who has never scored below 300 runs in an IPL season managed just 286 runs this season. Sharma as a skipper was outstanding as usual, but his rare failure with the bat let Mumbai down.
He failed to step-up on many occasions for Mumbai this season. His best innings performance came against the Royal Challengers Bangalore at home, in which he scored a superb 94(52).
Mumbai convincingly won that game by 46 runs. Struggling for runs, Sharma failed to recreate his past editions heroics and was not at his usual best in season eleven. A rare failure for the champion limited-overs batsman.
#1 Mustafizur Rahman
The Bangladeshi left-arm pacer was bought by the Mumbai Indians for just INR 2.2 crore at the 2018 IPL auctions.
It was considered as a bargain-buy considering his prowess with the cutters and yorkers in the death-overs.
One of the main members of the 2016 IPL winning Sunrisers squad, Rahman once again failed to deliver after his dream debut season in which he took 17 wickets.
The talented pacer played just seven out of the fourteen league games for Mumbai this season, in which he managed seven wickets, with a far from an impressive economy of 8.36.
A good show in the opportunities he got, would have certainly earned him a permanent spot in the eleven as Mumbai missed a quality overseas pacer to partner Jasprit Bumrah.
Unfortunately, Mumbai did not get the 'Fizz' they expected this season.
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