Mumbai Indians get in Corbin Bosch to replace Williams for IPL 2025 with the latter ruled out due to injury.
Mumbai Indians get allrounder Corbin Bosch as a replacement for fellow South African Lizaad Williams.
Although the bowling all-rounder Bosch has not yet made his IPL debut, he has previously played as a reserve for the Rajasthan Royals. However, Bosch, 30, is familiar with the MI team because he played for MI Cape Town, their SA20 champions, in February of this year. As MICT won its first SA20 championship, he claimed 11 wickets at an economy rate of 8.68 in seven innings.
At the Mumbai Indians, Bosch will be reunited with Ryan Rickelton, his SA20 teammate. After Raj Bawa and skipper Hardik Pandya, he will be MI’s third seam-bowling all-rounder.
He was selected as a diamond choice by Peshawar Zalmi for the PSL 2025 in the January draft, but he will now have to forfeit that contract in order to play in the IPL. The PSL will now take place within the April–May window, coinciding with the IPL, starting this year.
Bosch also participated in the now-defunct Mzansi Super League (MSL) and the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). He can bowl late in the game and float in the batting order; in the 2022 CPL, he even batted at No. 3 for the Barbados Royals.
In his 86 T20 appearances to date, Bosch has amassed 663 runs at a strike rate of 113.33 and claimed 59 wickets at an economy rate of 8.38.
His recent success has been bolstered by an IPL deal with MI. Bosch became the first player from South Africa to grab four wickets and score fifty or more in his debut during the Boxing Day Test match against Pakistan in Centurion. South Africa secured their spot in the World Test Championship (WTC) final, which will take place at Lord’s in June later this year, because to Bosch’s all-around performance.
Bosch was included in South Africa’s Champions Trophy team as an injury replacement following the SA20 victory, although he only played in a warm-up match in Karachi.
Williams is the second MI player to miss the forthcoming season due to a back ailment, following Afghanistan’s mystery spinner AM Ghazanfar.