Jharkhand medium pacer Rahul Shukla is the one of the lucky players among the five uncapped players, who has been selected for the Mumbai Indians squad for Indian Premier League (IPL) – 2012.

The team management of Mumbai Indians on Saturday inducted five uncapped players —Apoorva Wankhede, SujitNayak, Rahul Shukla, Sushant Maratheand Kuldeep Yadav — in its squad ahead of the fifth season of the IPL.

Shukla, one of the young talents from Jharkhand, would accompany Saurabh Tiwari in the IPL this season. While, Apoorva Wankhede, Sujit Nayak, SushantMarathe and KuldeepYadav will don the MI’s blue for the first time, Rahul Shukla, who had been part of the team in the third IPL, makes a comeback.