Mumbai: The All-Rounder Shams Mulani will lead the Mumbai team to tour excess overs to Oman.
On Saturday, the Senior Mumbai election committee, led by former Indian Pacer Salil Ankola, picked up a 14-member squad for the tour, which will consist of three T20 matches and as much as possible one day for the host.
While almost all top players are not available because Indian duty in the UK or the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL), in what is a big boost for Mumbai, Shivam Dube and Yashasvi Jaiswal’s opening has been released from their IPL camp by Rajasthan Royals (RR) for this tour.
“The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) urged RR to release these players from their camp for this tour, and the franchise agreed to the interests of cricket.
They will join RR in the UAE after this tour,” Ankola said to Tii on Monday.
T20 will be played on August 22, 24 and 26, while the 50-over game will be played on August 29, 31 and September 2 in departing from the norm lately, the team will quarantit only the day after arriving at Muscat on Thursday.
“The Oman government has given a special permission to the Mumbai team in this matter,” a source told this paper.
The side will leave the Muscat on 3.
Oman has qualified for the upcoming T20 World Cup and will also be a hosting six first round matches from the ICC event.
This will be the first assignment of the new coach Amol Muzumdar, and must function as a useful practice ahead of the Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy, which should begin in the third week of October.
“It’s a good idea to invite us to this tour.
Because of the rain, no cricket might occur in Mumbai.
This tour will provide good match practices to our boys.
This will help us prepare a limited leg from the domestic season,” Ankola said.
Towards the tour, the Mumbai players underwent a camp that was almost the month at the Academy in the room at BKC.
On Saturday, the legend of Batting Sachin Tendulkar delivered an impromptu PEP talk with a 40-strange possibility.
The meeting was held by the MCA on the commemoration of the first 31 years of 100 international hundreds.
“Amol has done a fantastic job to do camps that remember Covid-19 camps.
The fitness level of a boy really improves because the camp.
Mulani has been the captain of the side below 19 Mumbai.
He is a talented player.
He will immediately play on IPL too, “Ankola said.
The Squad: Shams Mulani (Captain), Aakarshit Gomel, Hardik Tamore, Arman Jaffer, Chimany Sutar, Shivam Dube, Safe Khan, Sujit Up, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Mohit Avasthi, Sairaj Patil, Deepak Shetty, Dhrumil Matkar
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