McGrath, currently in the city to coach budding fast bowlers at the MRF Pace Foundation, believed it was too early to say which teams would reach the playoffs. He hoped that Indian spearhead Jasprit Bumrah, who missed the previous season due to a back injury, would fire for Mumbai Indians.
"I think if you look at his last two strides, he really powers into the crease," McGrath explained. "So his momentum increases in his last two strides. That's where he gets it (pace). I think he's a little bit hyperextended in his elbow, so I think that all adds to it. But it's the last two steps for Bumrah if you ask me," he added on the secret of Bumrah's success.
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