Preview
Mumbai Indians (MI), after losing in their first match of IPL 2021 against Royal Challengers Bangalore, has now earned two victories in the other encounters and has been placed third in the points table. They beat Sunrisers Hyderabad with 13 runs in their previous match, and now Rohit Sharma-led side would be high on confidence.
Their next game is against Delhi Capitals (DC) on Tuesday, April 20 in Chennai at MA Chidambaram Stadium. MI has already played three matches at the Chepauk while DC is yet to play their first match in Chennai as all their matches have been at the Wankhede Stadium. However, Rishabh Pant’s men won’t fall short as they will be coming off a six-wicket victory against Punjab Kings.
PROBABLE PLAYING XIs:
Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Steve Smith, Rishabh Pant, Marcus Stoinis, Lalit Yadav, Chris Woakes, Lukman Meriwala/Amit Mishra, Ravi Ashwin, Kagiso Rabada, Avesh Khan
Bench: Shimron Hetmyer, Shams Mulani, Axar Patel, Tom Curran, Anrich Nortje, Aniruddha Joshi, Vishnu Vinod, Sam Billings, Ripal Patel, Amit Mishra/Lukman Meriwala, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Dubey, Umesh Yadav, Ajinkya Rahane
Rohit Sharma, Quinton de Kock, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Rahul Chahar, Adam Milne, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah
Bench: Anmolpreet Singh, Saurabh Tiwary, Anukul Roy, James Neesham, Arjun Tendulkar, Piyush Chawla, Nathan Coulter Nile, Aditya Tare, Jayant Yadav, Yudhvir Singh, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohsin Khan, Chris Lynn, Marco Jansen
Head-to-Head Count
Overall
Played – 28 | Delhi Capitals – 12 | Mumbai Indians– 16 |N/R – 0
At neutral venues
Played – 10 | Delhi Capitals – 3 | Mumbai Indians– 7 |N/R – 0
PROBABLE BEST BATSMAN OF THE MATCH
Rohit Sharma – Mumbai Indians
The Mumbai Indians captain, Rohit Sharma has decent scores against the Delhi Capitals. In 28 matches, he has scored 818 runs at an average and strike rate of 32.72 and 133.01 respectively. The right hander also has five fifties under his belt with an unbeaten sore of 74.
PROBABLE BEST BOWLER OF THE MATCH
Rahul Chahar – Mumbai Indians
Rahul Chahar is currently the highest wicket taker of the MI squad. He has seven wickets from three games. Initially he had a poor start with RCB , but later he made an impressive comeback against KKR and SRH and picked up four and three wickets in the respective encounters. Chahar is expected to play phenomenally against the opponents again.
