Mumbai, First Published Apr 30, 2022, 3:13 PM IST
The Mumbai Indians are expected to record their first win of the season by beating Rajasthan Royals in the IPL T20 League match in Mumbai tonight.
Rajasthan Royals need to win tonight’s match against Mumbai Indians to move to the top of the table. If Rajasthan wins two more matches, it will almost certainly advance to the play-off round.
Today, players wear Warne’s logos as they pay homage to the late Shane Warne, the former captain and coach of the Rajasthan Royals.
The five-time IPL champions Mumbai Indians have yet to record a win this season. So the team led by Rohit Sharma will fight hard to get the first win. The Mumbai Indians are almost out of the play-off round. The play-off chance is only if they win the next 8 matches by a large runrate margin. Can’t say for sure.
Therefore, this match is seen as a matter of great honor for the Mumbai Indians. Star players Ishant Kishan, Rohit Sharma and Pollard are all out of form. Suryakumar Yadav is only playing to a certain extent.
His function is to the extent of asking if there is a fast bowler named Bumra playing. The Mumbai Indians, who are looking hopeless overall, have to shudder.
Butler, Padikkal and Samson are in wild form for Rajasthan, making it difficult for Mumbai to take wickets. Ryan Barrock and Hedmeyer in the midfield are also action-packed. These too will be a headache for the Mumbai team. Trent Bolt and Coulter Neil, who were part of the Mumbai team, will be in crisis for the Mumbai team if they play in the Rajasthan team today. Since both of them played for the Mumbai team, every batsman in the web would have known how to play.
In death overs, Rajasthan batsman Prasidh Krishna bowls brilliantly. His over will be a challenge for the Mumbai team. Apart from this, the Mumbai players will have to deal with the spin of both Aswin and Sahal. Sahal has taken the most wickets so far this season
For the Rajasthan Royals, the same alliance that won the last match is expected to continue. At most there could be a change, i.e. Coulter Neil could bang instead of Darrell Mitchell.
It will be a bit difficult for the second bowling team as there may be night snow and humidity at the Mumbai DY Patil Stadium. Therefore, chasing would be difficult if the team batting first scored more than 165 runs.
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma, Ishant Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Toilet Breivis, Tilak Verma, Kieran Pollard, Daniel Sams, Jaydev Unadkat, Hirthik Sokin, Jaspreet Bumra, Relay Merit
Rajasthan Royals: Devdat Padikkal, Jazz Butler, Sanju Samson, Shimran Hedmeyer, Ryan Barak, Ravichandran Aswin, Yajuvendra Sahal, Prasidh Krishna, Kuldeep Sen, Coulter Neil (or Navdeep Saini), Trent Bolt (or Jim).
Last Updated Apr 30, 2022, 3:15 PM IST