Mumbai Indians faced an embarrassing defeat in their IPL 2023 opener, losing to Royal Challengers Bangalore in Bengaluru by eight wickets on Sunday.
Talking on this matter, former Australian cricketer Tom Moody questioned MI’s squad and felt that the playing XI consisted of ‘too many holes’.
“I’m concerned (for MI) because I sort of called it before the start of the IPL that I didn’t think they’d be anywhere near the finals. I just feel there are too many holes amongst their team and I don’t think they’ve got a balance in their squad either. They don’t have the domestic bowling depth and the international bowling depth”, he said.
“They don’t have balance with their overseas players either. They’ve got a lot of power-hitters and young power-hitters in Brevis, Stubbs and David. Three of them are taking up the eight slots that you’re given. That doesn’t make sense to me. You can see tonight just with RCB how important experience is. Where is the experience in that squad?” Moody wondered.
Mumbai Indians will be playing their next match against their biggest rival Chennai Super Kings on April 8.
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MUMBAI INDIANS:
Rohit Sharma (c), Tim David, Ramandeep Singh, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Tristan Stubbs, Dewald Brevis, Jofra Archer, Arjun Tendulkar, Arshad Khan, Kumar Kartikeya, Hrithik Shokeen, Jason Behrendorff, Akash Madhwal, Cameron Green, Piyush Chawla, Duan Jansen, Vishnu Vinod, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Raghav Goyal, Sandeep Warrier.