With Ramesh Powar deciding to play for Rajasthan and Ankeet Chavan battling to wriggle out of the spot fixing web that dealt a body blow to his blossoming career, the 40-time domestic champions will clearly miss the services of accomplished spinners during the competition. <img alt="Sulakshan Kulkarni" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/aug/Sulakshan-Kulkarni.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 647px;" /> Mumbai coach Sulakshan Kulkarni Left-arm bowlers Iqbal Abdulla and Vishal Dabholkar will be leading the spin attack and it&rsquo;s starkly evident that they will have major boots to fill. While Chavan was Mumbai&rsquo;s leading wicket-taker in the last Ranji season with 33 wickets, Powar has easily been their best spinner over the past decade. &ldquo;We will definitely miss the experience of Ramesh from now. Ankeet too was brilliant for us last season, so it&rsquo;s up to the remaining bowlers to rise to the challenge,&rdquo; Mumbai coach, Sulakshan Kulkarni, told MiD DAY yesterday. &ldquo;We have to manage with whatever resources we have at our disposal, and we need to begin training a fresh crop of bowlers, especially spinners,&rdquo; he added. Powar too is apprehensive about the quality prevalent in the spin department. He told MiD DAY yesterday: &ldquo;At the moment, I don&rsquo;t see any good spinners, but I am hoping that someone will come up the ranks and take responsibility.&rdquo; Mumbai&rsquo;s problems have been compounded by the fact that one of their promising young talents, Harmeet Singh, who was expected to go places after his excellent U-19 India debut, has failed to live up to his promise. He could not break into the Mumbai team last year and sought a no objection certificate from MCA to explore other states and is likely to turn out for Vidarbha this year. Mumbai&rsquo;s former chief of selectors Padmakar Shivalkar feels the spinners who will now be featuring this season should grab their chance. &ldquo;We cannot stop anyone from going where they want to. So, we must make the best of the players we have. I am sure Iqbal and Vishal will realise the need to raise their game and perform accordingly.&rdquo;u00a0

With a little more than two months to go for the start of the Ranji Trophy season, defending champions Mumbai find themselves in the midst of a major predicament.

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