Mumbai Indians return to their fortress for a must-win match towards Sunrisers

May 20, 2023 at 9:05 PM
Mumbai Indians return to their fortress for a must-win match towards Sunrisers

Big image: Mumbai gunning for closing playoff spot

Mumbai Indians slipped up of their earlier match in Lucknow and face a crunch recreation towards Sunrisers Hyderabad to make a late sprint into the playoffs. The good news for them is that they’re again at dwelling for his or her final league recreation, and the Wankhede has been a fortress for them this season.

They have gained 4 out of six dwelling matches to this point, chasing down totals of 186, 213 and 200. Should they beat Sunrisers on Sunday afternoon, they may end this season with their finest report on the Wankhede. Mumbai’s batters – and Suryakumar Yadav in particular – have been superior at dwelling, and Mumbai will financial institution on them towards the bottom-placed Sunrisers.

Mumbai should win to have a hope of finishing in the top four, and even then they may want Gujarat Titans to do them a favour and beat Royal Challengers Bangalore in a while Sunday night. If web run-rate come into the image, Mumbai may wrestle to make it, until they beat Sunrisers by an enormous margin.

Sunrisers had been the second workforce to be eradicated from competition for the playoffs, and wish a win to attempt to keep away from ending final this season. When these two groups met earlier this season, Mumbai won by 14 runs.

The massive query

Will Mumbai Indians make it to the playoffs?

1.5K votes

Recent outcomes

Mumbai Indians: LWWLW (Last 5 matches, most up-to-date first)
Sunrisers Hyderabad: LLLWL

Team news: Tilak Varma nonetheless uncertain

Tilak Varma has missed Mumbai’s final 4 matches with harm and faces a health check on the eve of the sport. Sunrisers ought to have all gamers obtainable for choice.

Impact participant technique

Mumbai Indians

Vishnu Vinod is prone to begin if Mumbai are batting first, or come on because the Impact Player to switch Akash Madhwal in the event that they bowl first. However, if Varma is match, he might play as an alternative of Vinod.

Mumbai Indians (Probable XII) 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Ishan Kishan (wk), 3 Suryakumar Yadav, 4 Nehal Wadhera, 5 Tim David, 6 Vishnu Vinod, 7 Cameron Green, 8 Chris Jordan, 9 Hrithik Shokeen/Kumar Kartikeya, 10 Piyush Chawla, 11 Jason Behrendorff, 12 Akash Madhwal

Sunrisers Hyderabad
Sunrisers may keep on with the identical workforce that performed towards RCB. T Natarajan will begin and be subbed off for a batter in the event that they bowl first, and vice versa. However, it stays to be seen if Umran Malik returns; he might come rather than Nitish Kumar Reddy.

Sunrisers Hyderabad (Probable XII) 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Rahul Tripathi, 3 Aiden Markram (capt), 4 Heinrich Klaasen (wk), 5 Harry Brook, 6 Glenn Phillips, 7 Abdul Samad, 8 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 9 Kartik Tyagi, 10 Mayank Dagar, 11 Nitish Kumar Reddy/Umran Malik, 12 T Natarajan

Stats that matter

  • Tim David, Mumbai’s finisher, has a wonderful report towards Natarajan, who’s certainly one of Sunrisers’ death-overs specialists. David has confronted 16 deliveries from Natarajan in two video games, and hit him for 47 runs with out being dismissed.

  • Sunrisers have gained simply two of their 11 video games at Wankhede.

  • The match might become a six-fest. The 124 sixes hit at Wankhede to this point is probably the most at any venue this season.

    • Quotes

    “It’s just another game for us. Yes from outside it looks like it’s a big game and we have to wait for other results, et cetera, but we know what we have been doing here at Wankhede in the last four-five games. So we know our strengths. So we will back that and focus on that.”

    Suryakumar Yadav is assured going into Mumbai Indians’ closing dwelling recreation.

    Abhimanyu Bose is a sub-editor with ESPNcricinfo