IPL 2022: 5 Players who were underutilized by Mumbai Indians (MI)

2. Mayank Markande

Even Mayank Markande, in IPL 2022, played very limitedly for MI. The leg-spinner was only rewarded with two matches that too at the fag end. In his two appearances, Mayank picked just a single wicket. But the spinner, before IPL 2022, was in red-hot form. In his 5 List A games, the leggie had scalped 11 wickets. In fact, in comparison to M Ashwin, Markande was expected to play as the foremost frontline spinner.

However, initially, the Mumbai franchise exhibited immense faith in M Ashwin’s bowling. The Tamil Nadu leg-spinner had a reasonable time picking 9 wickets in 8 games. More importantly, even when M Ashwin was discarded, MI then moved to youngsters like Hrithik Shokeen and Kumar Karthikeya.

Nevertheless, Markande could have been explored particularly when M Ashwin was benched. Maybe the 24-year-old could have exhibited similar performances as he did in IPL 2018. But startlingly Markande was completely underutilized by the blue and gold army.