It
appears that Virat Kohli's Royal Challengers will spoil Mumbai Indians' hopes?
Mumbai: Rohit Sharma-led Mumbai
Indians’ has set their target for Tuesday to end their winless jinx in the
Indian Premier League (IPL), when they meet an equally-struggling Royal
Challengers Bangalore (RCB) here at the Wankhede Stadium.
The
defending champions has shown a very poor performance so far in the IPL, having
lost their opening matches to Chennai Super Kings, Sunrisers Hyderabad and
Delhi Daredevils.
Injury seem
to worry the Men in Blue as Australia’s Pat Cummins has become the latest in
the long list of players to become out of the tournament.
New
Zealand’s Adam Milne has replaced the Aussie who in fact played for RCB last
season.
However, MI
hold the edge over RCB with 15 wins out of the 23 matches played between them,
while RCB winning only eight games.
This
includes their meeting during the Champions League final in 2011, which MI won
by 31 runs.
However, the
defending IPL champions will definitely move ahead as they will try a
turnaround.
However the
hosts will have to be wary of RCB’s power-packed batting lineup consisting of
Brendon McCullum, Virat Kohli, Quinton de Kock and AB de Villiers.
In the recent
match on Sunday, Kohli had set up the stage for RCB to chase down Rajasthan
Royals’ total of 218, but then fell short by 19 runs and faced their second
defeat.
The top and
middle-order should be a concern for MI bowlers, like Mustafizur Rahman, Hardik Pandya among a few
others.
Kiwi
cricketers Corey Anderson and Tim Southee would be well aware of MI’s strategic
plans, as they were with them formerly.
Meanwhile,
captain Rohit Sharma seems like struggleing with form ending up with scores of
15, 11 and 18.
Overall,
this match is very important, for both the teams, and a loss for either of them
would raise questions of a top-four finish this season.
Squads:
Mumbai
Indians: Rohit
Sharma(captain), Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Mustafizur
Rahman, Suryakumar Yadav, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Rahul Chahar, Evin
Lewis, Saurabh Tiwary, Ben Cutting, Pradeep Sangwan, Jean-Paul Duminy, Tajinder
Singh, Sharad Lumba, Siddhesh Lad, Aditya Tare, Mayank Markande, Akila Dhananjaya,
Anukul Roy, Mohsin Khan, MD Nidheesh, Mitchell McClenaghan, Adam Milne.
Royal
Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli(captain), Quinton de Kock(wicket-keeper), Brendon
McCullum, AB de Villiers, Sarfaraz Khan, Mandeep Singh, Chris Woakes,
Washington Sundar, Kulwant Khejroliya, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Colin de
Grandhomme, Moeen Ali, Manan Vohra, Aniket Choudhary, Navdeep Saini, Murugan
Ashwin, Pawan Negi, Mohammed Siraj, Corey Anderson, Parthiv Patel, Aniruddha
Joshi, Pavan Deshpande, Tim Southee.
Head to
Head record in IPL
Matches
played: 21
Mumbai
Indians: 13 wins
Royal
Challengers Bangalore: 8 wins
what is
the time of the match?
The match will
start at 8 pm IST on Tuesday (April 17)
Venue ?
The match
will take place at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai
Live
telecast
the matche
will be telecast on various Star Sports channels.
Live streaming:
View the
match live on Hotstar.com or on the Hotstar app.
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