One of those true blue IPL products, Mayank Markande is a young leg-spinner, with a googly that's good enough to trick the best in the business. He started off as a medium pacer, but his coach on spotting his small frame and a good slower one from the back of his hand, convinced him to switch to leg-spin in his teens.
He made his List A and T20 debuts in the 2018 domestic season for Punjab as a 20-year-old and played a handful of matches. In what is a testimony to Mumbai Indians' scouting team, Markande was picked up from nowhere in the 2018 auction for 20 lakhs after he impressed the think tank in the pre-auction trials. He won over the captain's confidence as well in the nets and was thrown into the deep sea straightaway as Mumbai chose to field him in their starting eleven over bigger names.
However, in the following season, a mix of injury and the rise of fellow leggie, Rahul Chahar, saw him go out of favour with the MI team think tank and he barely played a role in the side's journey to the title. Post the 2019 season, he was eventually swapped to Delhi Capitals in exchange for West Indian all-rounder, Sherfane Rutherford. Consequently, Markhande got released by Delhi and he was signed by Rajasthan at the 2020 auctions.