Corbin Bosch replaces injured Lizaad Williams at Mumbai Indians

Mumbai Indians have signed allrounder Corbin Bosch as a substitute for fellow South African Lizaad Williams, who has been dominated out of IPL 2025 with harm. Bosch, a bowling allrounder, is yet to make his IPL debut, however has been part of Rajasthan Royals inside the beyond as a reserve player. Bosch, 30, even though is familiar with the MI franchise, having been part of their name-prevailing SA20 aspect, MI Cape Town, in February earlier this yr. He took eleven wickets in seven innings at an economic system rate of eight.Sixty eight in MICT's run to their maiden SA20 name. Bosch will reunite along with his SA20 crew-mate Ryan Rickelton at Mumbai Indians. He will slot in because the 0.33 seam-bowling allrounder at MI behind captain Hardik Pandya and Raj Bawa. He was a diamond select by means of Peshawar Zalmi for PSL 2025 at the draft that turned into held in January, but will now ought to forgo that deal to take part inside the IPL. Starting this 12 months, the PSL may be played in an April-May window, clashing with the IPL. Bosch has additionally been part of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) and now-defunct Mzansi Super League (MSL). He can float in the batting line-up - he even batted at No.Three for Barbados Royals in CPL 2022 - and bowl on the loss of life too. Overall, Bosch has performed 86 T20s so far, taking fifty nine wickets at an financial system price of 8.38 to go with 663 runs at a strike rate of 113.33. An IPL cope with MI has brought to his latest success. In the Boxing Day Test against Pakistan in Centurion, Bosch have become the first South Africa player to take a 4-wicket haul and make a fifty-plus score on debut. Bosch's all-spherical attempt helped South Africa confirm their region inside the World Test Championship (WTC) very last, on the way to be held at Lord's in June later this 12 months. After prevailing the SA20, Bosch also made South Africa's Champions Trophy squad as an damage substitute however ended up playing just a warm-up fixture in Karachi. As for Williams, he is the second one MI player to be sidelined from the upcoming season after Afghanistan's mystery spinner AM Ghazanfar, who is nursing a lower back damage.