Alzarri Joseph is like­ly to join Mum­bai In­di­ans' in­jury bench af­ter hurt­ing his bowl­ing arm dur­ing Sat­ur­day's clash against Ra­jasthan Roy­als. ES­P­N­cricin­fo un­der­stands that Joseph has a tear in his right arm, which he dis­lo­cat­ed while div­ing on the field, and will miss the re­main­der of the tour­na­ment.

Joseph him­self was a re­place­ment for New Zealand's Adam Milne, who didn't ar­rive af­ter suf­fer­ing from a swollen heel. Milne had been bought at the De­cem­ber auc­tion for for INR 75 lakhs (US $104,000 ap­prox). As per the rules, the re­place­ment al­so gets the same amount.

This has been a dif­fi­cult year for Joseph al­ready. In Feb­ru­ary, he lost his moth­er in the mid­dle of his maid­en home Test in An­tigua, where he'd dis­missed Joe Den­ly off the first de­liv­ery. He opt­ed to play the Test, dis­play­ing a lot of char­ac­ter in West In­dies' se­ries win against Eng­land.

Joseph's IPL so­journ last­ed a week. He an­nounced him­self on April 6 spec­tac­u­lar­ly by pick­ing the IPL's best bowl­ing fig­ures of 6 for 12 in 3.4 overs to de­liv­er an away win against against Sun­ris­ers Hy­der­abad. His per­for­mance is the best bowl­ing fig­ures in the IPL, break­ing the eleven-year-old record held by So­hail Tan­vir (6 for 14). Three days lat­er, Joseph hit the win­ning runs against Kings XI Pun­jab in his first home game. How­ev­er, he had just bowled two overs in which he had giv­en 22 runs, go­ing wick­et­less.

On Fri­day, be­fore his fall, Joseph had al­ready en­dured a hard beat­ing, once again go­ing wick­et­less and leak­ing 53 runs in three overs. Hav­ing played half the num­ber of games, Mum­bai will be keen to find an im­me­di­ate re­place­ment for Joseph.

Mum­bai play Roy­al Chal­lengers at home on Mon­day be­fore trav­el­ling for four away games.

Paul bowls Cap­i­tals to vic­to­ry, Rus­sell mis­fires in KKR loss

KOLKATA, In­dia – Keemo Paul pro­duced a sen­sa­tion­al spell of fast bowl­ing to spur the Del­hi Cap­i­tals to a spec­tac­u­lar 39-run vic­to­ry over the Sun­ris­ers Hy­der­abad.

SCORES: Del­hi Cap­i­tals 155 for 7 (Iy­er 45, Khaleel 3-30) beat Sun­ris­ers Hy­der­abad 116 (Warn­er 51, Bairstow 41, Raba­da 4-22, Paul 3-17) by 39 runs.

Paul grabbed three wick­ets for 17 runs from his four overs to help trig­ger a dra­mat­ic col­lapse as Hy­der­abad were dis­missed for 116 in pur­suit of the Cap­i­tals’ to­tal of 155 for sev­en from their 20 overs.

Led by a half-cen­tu­ry open­ing stand be­tween David Warn­er and Jon­ny Bairstow, Hy­der­abad seemed to be cruis­ing at 72 with­out loss in­side of ten overs.

But once Paul, who was vot­ed Man-of-the-Match, ac­count­ed for Bairstow’s scalp, it all went down­hill for Hy­der­abad.

Keemo Paul (left) took three wick­ets to lead the Cap­i­tals to a shock­ing win

He fol­lowed that up by dis­miss­ing cap­tain Kane Williamson for three and then Ricky Bhui for sev­en, to leave the score 101 for three.

From there­on, Kag­iso Raba­da ran through the mid­dle or­der claim­ing four scalps, in­clud­ing the prized wick­et of Warn­er for the top score of 51, as Hy­der­abad lost their re­main­ing sev­en wick­ets for just 15 runs.

So em­bar­rass­ing was Hy­der­abad’s bat­ters that on­ly Bhui made more than the five ex­tras which were con­ced­ed by the Cap­i­tals.

In an­oth­er match, both Sunil Nar­ine and An­dre Rus­sell failed with the bat as the Kolkata Knight Rid­ers went down by five wick­ets to the Chen­nai Su­per Kings.

SCORES: Chen­nai Su­per Kings 162 for 5 (Raina 58*, du Plessis 24, Nar­ine 2-19) beat Kolkata Knight Rid­ers 161 for 8 (Lynn 82, Tahir 4-27) by five wick­ets.

Open­ing the bat­ting, Nar­ine made just two from sev­en balls, while Rus­sell hit two bound­aries in his knock of 10, as KKR could on­ly muster 161 for eight in their 20 overs.

Chen­nai then got up to 162 for five with two balls to spare, thanks huge­ly to an un­beat­en 58 from Suresh Raina and 31 not out from Ravin­dra Jade­ja.

Nar­ine did man­age to claim two wick­ets for 19 runs from his four overs, while Rus­sell’s soli­tary over went for 16 runs.

(CMC)