Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma gained the toss and elected to bowl first in opposition to Rajasthan Royals on Saturday at Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai. It is an important contest for Mumbai Indians to earn their first win of the season after eight defeats on a trot. The five-time IPL champions are already out of the playoffs race and now they’ll play to earn the respect.
Mumbai made a few adjustments of their XI from the earlier contest as Tim David returned to the facet instead of Dewald Brevis. While Kumar Kartikeya obtained his debut MI cap as he changed Jaydev Unadkat.
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Rohit Sharma mentioned that his group will look to get pleasure from themselves within the center and stick collectively as a bunch.
“We want to bowl first. What we’ve seen over the course of the event, it fits us. We wish to chase. We have a few adjustments. Tim David and Kumar Kartikeya are available for Brevis and Unadkat. Preparation has been good, most of it has been completed earlier than the event. Hopefully, we’ve some enjoyable within the center, that’s what we’ve been lacking. We wish to attempt to see how we get pleasure from ourselves. It’s essential to stay collectively as a bunch,” Rohit Sharma mentioned on the toss.
Rajasthan Royals will sport a special jersey with SW23 written on the leading collar against the Mumbai Indians as a tribute to Warne. The match against Mumbai will be played at the venue where Warne inspired Rajasthan to win IPL 2008 with a three-wicket victory against Chennai Super Kings.
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Royals captain Sanju Samson had no problem in batting first as his team has already done well this season in setting a target.
“We are happy to set a target, we have done that 7-8 times already. We have been playing some good cricket, it’s easy be to be complacent, but we are taking this game as a really important one. We are playing with the same team,” Samson mentioned.
Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Daryl Mitchell, Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Sen
Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Ishan Kishan(w), Rohit Sharma(c), Tim David, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Kieron Pollard, Hrithik Shokeen, Daniel Sams, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya, Riley Meredith
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