MI vs SRH preview: Mumbai Indians (MI) face Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in a do-or-die clash at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium on Sunday.
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Mumbai, after all, are one of the three teams vying for the last available playoff spot in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL), with Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) the other contenders. While RR finished the league stage with 14 points to their name, they will be given the marching orders should either Mumbai or Bangalore win their fixtures on Sunday.
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Given Mumbai have the poorest Net Run Rate (NRR) of the three teams competing for the final playoff spot, theirs currently in the negative (-0.128), they will hope to thrash the hapless Sunrisers — who lie at the bottom of the table with eight points to their name — by a sizeable margin in the final game of the season hosted at the Wankhede
A big win might just help the Rohit Sharma-led side sneak into the top four even if RCB end up winning their final home game of the season against defending champions and current table leaders Gujarat Titans, who were the first team to qualify for the knockouts and now appear set to finish at the No 1 spot.
The Sunrisers, on the other hand, will be aiming to spoil the party for Mumbai and end what turned out to be another disappointing campaign for the ‘Orange Army’ on a positive note. SRH are the only team with points that are still in single digits, and a victory over MI will help them go level with Delhi Capitals on 10 points; given they have a better NRR compared to Delhi, they will thus avoid finishing at the bottom of the 10-team table.
SRH and MI had squared off earlier in the season at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad, where Mumbai rode on Cameron Green’s all-round contribution (64 not out; 1/29) to post a competitive 192/5 before bowling the home team out for 178. The match witnessed left-arm pacer Arjun Tendulkar bowl a memorable final over in which he collected the winning wicket — also his first in the IPL — by dismissing Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
MI vs SRH Squads:
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan(w), Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Nehal Wadhera, Tim David, Hrithik Shokeen, Chris Jordan, Piyush Chawla, Jason Behrendorff, Akash Madhwal, Vishnu Vinod, Kumar Kartikeya, Ramandeep Singh, Tristan Stubbs, Raghav Goyal, Arshad Khan, Dewald Brevis, Arjun Tendulkar, Riley Meredith, Shams Mulani, Tilak Varma, Duan Jansen, Sandeep Warrier
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Harry Brook, Glenn Phillips, Abdul Samad, Kartik Tyagi, Mayank Dagar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nitish Reddy, T Natarajan, Mayank Markande, Vivrant Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Sanvir Singh, Akeal Hosein, Marco Jansen, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Adil Rashid, Anmolpreet Singh, Umran Malik, Upendra Yadav, Samarth Vyas
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