The West Indies allrounder, Dwayne Bravo , will be joining the Mumbai Indians team for the ongoing innaugral season of IPL 2008 replacing the injured Sri Lankan fast bowler Lasith Malinga. Lalchand Rajput, Mumbai’s coach, confirmed that Bravo was the unanimous choice of the “few” names discussed by the team think-tank. Malinga, recovering from a knee injury that he picked during the CB Series in Australia, and, had to miss the Caribbean tour but was confident last week he would be fit to join the Mumbai squad. But Rajput said “we got a report that his recovery might take a further two to three weeks. So we decided to have a back-up”.

Lasith Malinga has been the second player to be not playing the initial matches for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League this season, earlier Sachin Tendulkar has ruled himself out from the start ups and the captaincy of his team was passed to Harbhajan Singh who is playing from Mumbai Indian’s team.