Former India wicketkeeper batter Parthiv Patel, who represented six franchises in his Indian Premier League (IPL) career, ignored Hardik Pandya and Glenn Maxwell, along with Dwayne Bravo and Sunil Narine, to pick a former West Indies star as the best all-rounder in the history of the cash-rich league. He picked his former teammate Kieron Pollard is the best all-rounder in the IPL.
Parthiv played for Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians, Kochi Tuskers Kerala, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Deccan Chargers, and Sunrisers Hyderabad—during his 12-year-long IPL career.
A former India cricketer was asked to pick the best IPL all-rounder during a Cricbuzz show, and he chose his former MI teammate. Pollard played for the Mumbai Indians in the IPL from 2010 to 2022. During his career, he played 189 matches for the Mumbai Indians and scored 3412 runs, in addition to taking 69 wickets.
He was a part of the MI team that won five IPL titles in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2020, along with two Champions League titles in 2011 and 2014. After retiring from the IPL, the star all-rounder joined Mumbai Indians as a batting coach ahead of the 2023 season and will resume the responsibilities once again this year.
The upcoming edition of the IPL is scheduled to start from March 22 in Kolkata between defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB). Mumbai will start their IPL campaign against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at MA Chidambaram Stadium and then travel to Ahmedabad to take on Gujarat Titans in the second league stage match on March 29.
MI IPL 2025 squad: Hardik Pandya (c), Jasprit Bumrah, Rohit Sharma, Tilak Verma, Trent Boult, Naman Dhir, Robin Minz, Karn Sharma, Ryan Rickelton, Deepak Chahar, Will Jacks, Ashwani Kumar, Mitchell Santner, Reece Topley, Shrijith Krishnan, Raj Angad Bawa, Venkat Satyanarayana Raju, Bevon Jacobs, Arjun Tendulkar, Vignesh Puthhur, Suryakumar Yadav.