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15-04-2023
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Mumbai Indians will confront a difficult errand against the capability of Kolkata Knight Riders hitters when the groups conflict here on Sunday in their IPL challenge, with both previous bosses hoping to return their missions on target. While Mumbai Indians had the option to break their winless streak in their last game against Delhi Capitals, Kolkata Knight Riders went down battling on Friday night against Sunrisers Hyderabad in a high-scoring challenge at the Eden Nurseries. In any case, in spite of dominating the past match, the best IPL group, Mumbai Indians, will be under added tension at the Wankhede Arena, for they have not had the option to tackle their potential such a long ways in IPL 2023. With two successes and as many losses, KKR have had their portion of ups and downs and are put fourth on the focuses table with a decent net run rate (0.711) when contrasted with Mumbai Indians who are 10th with two places and a NRR of - 0.879. Rohit Sharma made a game dominating 65 against Delhi Capitals yet the test for the MI skipper will be to achieve consistency, particularly when the other senior, Suryakumar Yadav, is going through a lean fix. Mumbai Indians are probably going to be without their pro pacer Jofra Bowman, who has been sidelined by new elbow inconvenience post his appearance in the main match of the time. Jason Behrendorff and Riley Meredith should bear the obligation in the quick bowling office, while Piyush Chawla will be supposed to convey forward his structure from the past game where he took 3/22. MI will count on their young weapons Tim David, Cameron Green, Tilak Varma and Ishan Kishan to shoot, considering that KKR have shown unbelievable battle right till the finish to pull off a staggering win against Gujarat Titans, and battle till the last ball against SRH. Rinku Singh will be the greatest danger with the bat for MI since the left-hander has smacked an unbeaten 48 and 58 in his last two excursions batting at No 7. In addition, captain Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Shardul Thakur have been among runs for KKR, which shows MI should be at their best in all offices. KKR captain Rana expelled his common run with the bat, scoring 75 off 41 balls on Friday, and reporting his re-visitation of structure. Then again, in his last two excursions with the bat, Rinku has alone hit a terrific complete of five fours and 10 sixes while executing two excellent thumps in the demise overs. Yet again the attention will be on the capable youthful player in the KKR line-up.However, KKR have a few worries too as their all-rounder Andre Russell, who has battled with the bat in this IPL. Russell couldn't finish his quantity of overs against SRH in Kolkata on Friday night as he endured cramps, however his three wickets saved KKR in the game for a really long time. It is not yet clear if KKR could need to evaluate the unstable English player Jason Roy at the top, considering that Gurbaz plays played out his part at the top with energy. Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy have been among the wickets for KKR, who likewise have Bangladesh wicketkeeper-hitter Litton Das going along with them as of late. Crews: Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma ©, Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David, Dewald Brevis, Tilak Varma, Ishan Kishan (wk), Tristan Stubbs, Vishnu Vinod, Cameron Green, Arjun Tendulkar, Ramandeep Singh, Jokes Mulani, Riley Meredith Nehal Wadhera, Hrithik Shokeen, Arshad Khan, Duan Jansen, Piyush Chawla, Kumar Kartikeya, Raghav Goyal, Jofra Bowman, Jason Behrendorff, Akash Madhwal. Kolkata Knight Riders: Nitish Rana ©, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh, N. Jagadeesan, Vaibhav Arora, Suyash Sharma, David Wiese, Kulwant Khejroliya, Litton Das (wicketkeeper), Mandeep Singh and Jason Roy.
Time: 3:30PM IST