But the good thing is that Chennai Super Kings is a team that knows how to make a comeback. Talking about Mumbai Indians, they seem to be in very good form at the moment, they has successfully chased the score above 200 in two consecutive matches.
So MI has the momentum and they will back himself up to beat Chennai Super Kings because records say something similar.
Chennai Super Kings will make a comeback
Chennai Super Kings have in-form openers, both Ruturaj Gaikwad and Devon Conway are in tremendous form and they can score fast runs. The reins of the middle order are in the hands of Ajinkya Rahane, Shivam Dubey and Moin Ali, so it is a good combination.
MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja are playing the role of a finisher. However, the need for both of them has not been so much so far because the top-order batsmen have done a very good job. They have consistently scored half-centuries as well as shared big partnerships with other batsmen.
Although Chennai has struggled a lot in the bowling department so far, inexperienced bowling has been a problem for Chennai, but Deepak Chahar has made a comeback, which means that in today’s match we can see a good bowling performance from Chennai.
And for bowling in the middle overs, Chennai has the best spinners Moeen Ali, Ravindra Jadeja, and Maheesh Theekshana, who are excellent wicket-taking bowlers and do not like to give too many runs.
Mumbai Indians have momentum
Mumbai Indians do not have much to change, their batting unit is the deadliest and best unit of this tournament. They have a fantastic batting line-up like Tilak Verma, Chris Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan and Tim David.
However, Mumbai Indian bowlers have struggled a lot, if we remove Piyush Chawla, then all the other bowlers are constantly conceded too many runs and this has emerged as a very big problem.
The Mumbai Indians team management has signed Tymal Mills but it is not certain whether he will play in the next match or not. A big challenge for Mumbai Indians batsmen today will be to bat in the middle overs.
So far MI has done this job in the best way but today he will have a dangerous spin bowling trio in front of them and it is not so easy to score runs against them at Cheapauk. The last time the two teams met at Wankhede, the same spin trio had demolished Mumbai.
What statistics and pitch reports say
If we talk about the matches between the two teams at MA Chidambaram, then the last time Chennai Super Kings defeated Mumbai
Indians on this ground was in the year 2012. Since then, the two teams have faced each other 4 times on this ground, Mumbai has won all of the matches.
In the 37 matches played between the two teams, Mumbai has won 21 times so far, so it clearly shows that Mumbai’s lead looks very heavy from the point of view of statistics.
But in the match at Wankhede this year, Chennai had a great win over Mumbai. The pitch of Chepauk has certainly got better for batting, around 180-200 can be expected from the team batting first at this venue.