Match Preview
Five-time champions Mumbai Indians lost their first two matches. That team has not yet started a winning account. Aiming to get the first win in today’s game. Ishant Kishan and Tilak Verma are in good form.
Their bowling includes Bumrah, Murugan Aswin and Mills. The loss of Mumbai in today’s match will lead to a crisis situation in the coming matches. Kolkata won 2 of 3 matches. The team is looking for a 3rd win with Rahane, Shreyas Iyer, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Andre Russell in the batting and Umesh Yadav, Sunil Naveen and Varun Chakraborty in the bowling.
Mumbai Indians fielded the same playing XI in their first two matches, but there is sure to be a change in the team for this match.
Suryakumar Yadav can make a comeback in place of Anmolpreet Singh . Apart from this, Fabien Allen can be brought in by dropping Danielle Sams.
Suryakumar has been associated with the team, but he did not play the last match. Certainly, Rohit Sharma enjoys batting against KKR. So far, Rohit Sharma has scored 1,015 runs in 29 matches against Kolkata. Rahane has scored the highest 593 runs against Mumbai from the current team of Kolkata.
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Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders Teams
Probable XI: Rohit Sharma (captain), Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma, Kieron Pollard, Run David, Fabian Allen, Jasprit Bumrah, Tymal Mills, Murugun Ashwin and Basil Thampi.
Kolkata Knight Riders won their last match convincingly. Also, Pat Cummins has joined the team and there may be two changes in compulsion to take him off.
Sam Billings could be left out to bring Cummins into the team. Apart from this, Sheldon Jackson can be brought in for wicket keeping by taking out Shivam Mavi.
Probable XI: Ajinkya Rahane, Venkatesh Iyee, Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Sheldon Jackson (wk), Sunil Narine, Pat Cummins, Varun Chakraborty, Umesh Yadav and Tim Southee.
Pitch Report
MCA Stadium in Pune has hosted 40 IPL matches so far. Apart from home matches of Pune Warriors India and Rising Pune Supergiants, some matches of Chennai Super Kings and Punjab Kings have also been played in this stadium.
This season so far two matches have been played at this ground and in both the teams batting first have won.