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The depleted Mumbai Indians side faced another blow on Monday eve when their wicketkeeper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Davy-Jacobs-c1343, was ruled out of the remainder of Champions League T20 tournament with a hip injury.
The South African wicketkeeper batsman injured his hip during a training session ahead of his side’s group match against Trinidad and Tobago. Jacobs sustained the injury while batting in the nets on Sunday eve and was seen moving out of the ground uncomfortably.
Jacobs also missed the next day’s clash against the Caribbean side Trinidad & Tobago, which his side’s went on to win on the last ball with one wicket in hand.
The stand-in captain of Mumbai Indians, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harbhajan-Singh-c61453, has confirmed that the gloveman will miss the rest of the ongoing Champions League T20 tournament due to the said injury.
Jacobs was signed by the franchise in January auction ahead of the IPL4. The South African though failed to impress with the bat as he could manage only 92 runs from six IPL games earlier this year; however, he made an impact with the gloves.
Jacob joins a long list of injured players which the Mumbai Indians had lost including the regular skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Aditya-Tare-c932 and Dhawal Kulkarni.
Tebdulkar, Sharma and Patel sustained injuries during India’s recently concluded tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Suryakumar-Yadav-c2613, while Rohit Sharma has been replaced
with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sarul-Kanwar-c2457.
Keeping in view the long list of injuries in the Mumbai camp, the technical committee of the multi-million championship had given the franchise a favour and allowed them to field five foreign players in a match, while the CLT20 rules allow a maximum of
4 imports in one match.
After Jacobs injury, the Mumbai Indians are left with only six overseas players in their squad.
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