Mumbai Indians (MI) spinner Piyush Chawla is hopeful of extending his enjoying profession within the Indian Premier League (IPL) after his exploits within the ongoing version. After going unsold in the course of the IPL 2022 public sale, Chawla was picked up by MI forward of IPL 2023. He picked up 22 wickets final season, and has 10 is as many video games this time period. Chawla’s type has been one of many positives for MI this season, with the five-time champions already out of the playoffs race. Nevertheless, it os extremely unlikely that MI will retain him going into the IPL 2025 mega public sale.

On being was requested if the followers will get to see him enjoying subsequent season, Chawla got here up with a cheeky reply, leaving the journalists in splits.

“You inform me, if I needs to be enjoying with the way in which I am bowling? In case you have given your permission, after all I’ll see you someplace subsequent time,” Chawla mentioned in the course of the post-match press convention.

Chawla has performed 191 matches within the IPL for 4 totally different franchises together with  Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings), Kolkata Knight Riders, Chennai Tremendous Kings and MI.

The 35-year-old surpassed Dwayne Bravo earlier this season to turn into the second all-time main wicket-taker within the event.

He has picked up 189 wickets and was a part of the KKR crew which received the IPL in 2014.

Chawla picked two wickets on Saturday however MI went down preventing in opposition to KKR in a rain-hit sport on the Eden Gardens.

Talking on the defeat, Chawla steered MI failed to assemble momentum, whereas additionally praising KKR spinnners Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine for turning the tide.

“T20 is about momentum, and we did not get that momentum proper from the start. Some days we bowled effectively, however our batting did not click on, and generally our batters did effectively, however the bowlers ended up leaking runs,” he mentioned

“As a unit, we’ve got failed in a number of video games, and we’ve got to just accept that as a crew. We have now a superb lineup, however issues did not fall into place. Right this moment additionally, we began off brilliantly, however that spell of (Sunil) Narine and Varun (Chakravarthy) really made the distinction. It’s a must to give credit score to their bowlers,” Chawla added.