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New Zealand white-ball captain Mitchell Santner has claimed that the Mumbai Indians paid him only half his salary after he suffered an injury during the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026.
The all-rounder was bought by the Mumbai Indians at the IPL mega auction in 2025 for INR 20 million and was retained by the franchise for this year’s edition.
Santner’s IPL 2026 campaign in disappointment as he managed to play only a few matches before getting ruled out of the tournament due to an injury.
Initially, the 34-year-old was expected to be out of action for eight weeks. However, he recovered in time and was later included in New Zealand’s squad, after which several allegations regarding his injury emerged.
Santner addressed the allegations of faking his injury to leave IPL 2026 on Grade Cricketer Podcast.
“Well, they gave me half my cash, so that actually hurt a little bit,” Santner revealed.
The New Zealand skipper shared that he suffered two separate injuries and was unable to put his body through an intense workload during the IPL.
“I got there, missed the first game, birth of my second child, got there straight off the plane, played Delhi, did [injured] my right shoulder, out for kind of week,”
“I came back a couple of games later, did [injured] my left and went home. So I did [injured] two shoulders in the space of kind of two weeks. So I thought I was putting my body on the line for them, but obviously not.”
For the unversed, IPL 2026 was marred by controversies from players breaching the code of conduct, resulting in stricter actions from the BCCI.
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