On one hand, it is difficult for Rohit Sharma to play due to injury and the bowlers are not in form, due to which the Mumbai team is worried. On the other hand, Punjab Kings are in great form.
Mumbai: Today Mumbai Indians will face Punjab Kings in IPL. This match will start at 7:30 pm at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Mumbai Indians had started with a win, but now they are stuck in the quagmire of continuous defeats. At the same time, Punjab Kings have not lost a single match so far. There is immense pressure on the Mumbai team captained by Hardik Pandya even in front of its own fans at its home ground Wankhede.
There is trouble everywhere in the Mumbai camp. The openers are struggling to score runs in the powerplay. The middle order is faltering and the bowling is also missing. Due to injury, Rohit Sharma’s chances of playing are less. Tilak Verma is struggling to score runs. Trent Boult and Mitchell Santner are also not in their rhythm. On top of all this, the team’s most reliable bowler Jasprit Bumrah has got only one wicket in 4 matches, which further adds to the team’s troubles.
On the other hand, there is nothing to worry about in the Punjab Kings camp. The opening pair of Prabhsimran Singh and Priyansh Arya is batting brilliantly. Captain Shreyas Iyer and Cooper Connolly are strengthening the team in the middle order. The bowling line-up, comprising of bowlers like Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Xavier Bartlett and Marco Janssen, is also in excellent form. If we talk about head-to-head matches, both the teams are on equal footing. There have been 34 matches between the two so far, out of which both have won 17-17 matches.
Let’s take a look at the possible playing eleven of both the teams…
Punjab Kings: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Cooper Connolly, Shreyas Iyer, Nehal Wadhera, Marcus Stoinis, Shashank Singh, Marco Yansen, Xavier Bartlett, Vijaykumar Vaishakh, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal.
Mumbai Indians: Ryan Rickelton, Quinton de Kock, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya, Shaffen Rutherford, Naman Dheer, Mitchell Santner, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah, Ashwani Kumar.