Preview
The Mumbai Indians (MI) couldn’t make a great start to their IPL 2021 tournament by losing against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the season opener match at Chepauk. They will be playing their next game against Kolkata Knight Riders on Tuesday at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, where the odds are favoring Mumbai Indians.
On head-to-head count, MI are leading the KKR side by 21-6. Looking into more advantages, in their last 12 meetings, MI squad has beaten the Kolkata based unit by 11 instances.
Talking about KKR, the Eoin Morgan-led side may have been having a few bad performances, but they can take heart from the fact that they won their opening match against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 10 runs. Henceforth, in the upcoming match MI vs KKR, they will be giving their best to win again.
PROBABLE PLAYING XIs
Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan, Dinesh Karthik, Andre Russell, Shakib Al Hasan, Pat Cummins, Harbhajan Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy
Bench
Karun Nair, Gurkeerat Mann Singh, Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Ben Cutting, Pawan Negi, Shivam Mavi, Sheldon Jackson, Tim Seifert, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Vaibhav Arora, Sandeep Warrier
Rohit Sharma, Chris Lynn, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Rahul Chahar, Marco Jansen, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah
Bench
Anmolpreet Singh, Quinton de Kock, Saurabh Tiwary, Yudhvir Singh, Anukul Roy, James Neesham, Arjun Tendulkar, Adam Milne, Piyush Chawla, Nathan Coulter Nile, Aditya Tare, Jayant Yadav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohsin Khan.
Head-to-Head
Overall
Played – 27 | Kolkata Knight Riders– 6 | Mumbai Indians – 21 |N/R – 0
At neutral venues
Played – 8 | Kolkata Knight Riders – 2 | Mumbai Indians – 6 |N/R – 0
PROBABLE BEST BATSMAN OF THE MATCH
Rohit Sharma – Mumbai Indians
The Mumbai Indians (MI) captain Rohit Sharma has an incredible numbers against the KKR team and is only left with 61 runs to complete his 1000-run mark. The MI captain has scored 939 runs in 27 matches with a strike rate of 133. He has six half centuries and one ton with a score of 109 as a headache for the opponents, Kolkata Knight Riders.
PROBABLE BEST BOWLER OF THE MATCH
Jasprit Bumrah – Mumbai Indians
Jasprit Bumrah has quite a remarkable performance in their first match against the RCB, as well as has great scores against KKR. In 44 overs he has bowled against KKR, the player has picked up 12 wickets. Hence, it will be quite interesting to see his performance in the KKR vs MI match.
