IPL 2024: Romario Shepherd Traded To Mumbai Indians From Lucknow Super Giants

Mumbai Indians, on Friday (November 3), secured the services of West Indian allrounder Romario Shepherd through a trade with Lucknow Super Giants.

In the last auction for this year’s IPL, the Lucknow-based outfit had signed up Romario Shepherd at his base price of Rs 50 lakh. However, he played just one game for Lucknow Super Giants and failed to make any big impression. The 28-year-old began his career in IPL 2022 with Sunrisers Hyderabad.

In his maiden IPL season, he played three games and scored 58 runs in addition to picking up 3 wickets before being released by the Hyderabad-based outfit. Romario Shepherd is a medium fast-bowler who is known for his variations and is also a hard-hitting batsman.

He has played 31 T20Is so far and has scored 304 runs and picked up 31 wickets. Earlier this year, he impressed in the home series against India. The right-arm pacer picked up 9 wickets in 5 games including a four-wicket haul in the series-decider to help his side clinch a famous series win.

Overall in T20s, he has picked up 109 wickets and has scored almost 1000 runs in 99 games. He has an average of 23 in bowling and a strike rate of 150 with the bat in the shortest format of the game. Romario Shepherd is the kind of player that every team wants in T20s and Mumbai Indians will be hoping that he delivers for them in IPL 2024.

Mumbai Indians look to reclaim title:

Mumbai Indians will be looking to reclaim the IPL title in the upcoming IPL season. After a disappointing campaign in IPL 2022 where they finished at the bottom of the points table in the 10-team competition, the Rohit Sharma-led side did well to make it to the playoffs in IPL 2023. They lost to the Gujarat Titans in the second qualifier.

The five-time IPL winners have not won the title since 2020 and will be desperate to go all the way next season. They have already started their preparations for the next season. Before roping in Romario Shepherd, the Mumbai-based outfit had appointed their former pacer Lasith Malinga as their new bowling coach.