MI and RCB combined all-time IPL XI
Over the last decade or so, Mumbai Indians have been referred to as arguably the most star-studded team with players such as Ricky Ponting, Sachin Tendulkar, Sanath Jayasuriya and Lasith Malinga.
9. Lasith Malinga
This team not only possesses the IPL’s all-time leading run-getter, but also one of the greatest T20 bowlers – Lasith Malinga – the leading wicket-taker in the competition. The Sri Lankan specialist is another proof of the fantastic groundwork MI have done over the years, having taken 170 wickets in just 122 matches at a healthy conceding rate of 7.14. To hold such a statistic after 11 years of cricket for the IPL giants is nothing short of awe-inspiring.
Malinga has been gifted with a slingy action but has been a master in using it to good effect. We throw various discourses on batsmen who can hit maximums without any fuss at regular intervals but tend to forget the austerity that has gone behind Malinga’s competence to bowl yorkers six out of six times in an over.
He has rattled the stumps and left many a batsman reeling while holding the tendency to give nothing away. More so, it’s almost the most difficult thing as a batsman to get under Malinga’s deliveries – due to his action – and clobber it away. A cherry on the finished product that the legend is comes in the form of his well-disguised slower balls, which hardly any batsman has picked over these couple of decades.
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