Mumbai Indians (MI) have replaced their premier pacer, Jasprit Bumrah with the young fast bowler, Sandeep Warrier for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023. Meanwhile, Delhi Capitals (DC) have officially signed up Abishek Porel as captain Rishabh Pant’s replacement for the tournament. Warrier, who has played for India, has thus far played 68 T20s and scalped 62 wickets.

Warrier was previously a part of the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), having played 5 IPL matches. Recurring back injuries have forced Bumrah to opt out of several international and domestic matches in the past few years. Last year, he was ruled out of the T20 World Cup due to the same stress fracture.

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Earlier this year, Jasprit Bumrah was forced to withdraw from the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series against Australia. He was expected to be back in action for the ODI series. However, further tests suggested that the 29-year-old might need more time to recover than anticipated and will miss playing for the five-time champions Mumbai Indians.

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MI is scheduled to commence its IPL 2023 campaign against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) on Sunday at the M. Chinnaswamy stadium.

Delhi Capitals have replaced Rishabh with Abhishek Porel. Wicketkeeper-batsman Porel has played 3 List A and as many Twenty20 matches for Bengal. Porel has joined the Delhi team for 20 lakhs, while Sandeep has joined MI for 50 lakhs. Warrier made his debut for Kerala in 2012 in domestic cricket. Now he plays for Tamil Nadu. He has 62 wickets in 68 T20 matches. Has taken 83 wickets in 69 List A matches and 217 wickets in 66 First Class matches.

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Mumbai Indians Squad: Rohit Sharma (captain), Suryakumar Yadav, Cameron Green, Tim David, Ramandeep Singh, Tilak Verma, Piyush Chawla, Ishan Kishan, Tristan Stubbs, Dewald Brewis, Jofra Archer, Sandeep Warrier, Arjun Tendulkar, Arshad Khan, Kumar Kartikeya, Nehal Wadhera, Raghav Goyal, Jhye Richardson, Akash Madhwal, Hrithik Shokeen, Jason Behrendorff, Dwayne Johnson, Vishnu Vinod, Shams Mulani,