Mumbai Indians win the essential toss towards Sunrisers Hyderabad and elected to bowl first of their second Indian Premier League 2024 recreation at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Wednesday, March 27.
Suryakumar Yadav misses out once more as he stays on the NCA however Mumbai handed a primary IPL cap to younger South African pacer Kwena Maphaka who changed injured Luke Wood of their taking part in eleven.
“We are going to bowl first,” Hardik Pandya stated. “Looks like a good track, we were solid in the last game. Didn’t plan properly, that cost us the game. 13 games to go, we need to keep doing the right things. We are positive and looking forward to the challenge. Just trying to spend time with all the players. Getting to know them better. One change, Luke misses out due to niggle, Maphaka comes in.”
Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma acquired his 200th IPL capt for Mumbai Indians from the previous skipper Sachin Tendulkar. Rohit turned the one third cricketer to play 200 or extra IPL matches for a single workforce after Virat Kohli (239 video games for RCB) and MS Dhoni (226 matches for CSK).
Sunrisers Hyderabad had been additionally pressured to substitute injured T Natarajan with new signing Jaydev Unadkat and added within the star Australian batter Travis Head within the place of Marco Jansen who proved costly towards KKR within the final recreation.
The skilled Indian batter Rahul Tripathi additionally misses out on the squad fully for SRH. Once once more, Umran Malik and Washington Sundar discover a place on the affect substitutes checklist with Glenn Phillis, Nitish Reddy and Upendra Yadav.
“Looks like a good wicket,” Cummins stated. “Not too upset. It’s a tough tournament, the crowd and conditions will help. A couple of changes. Head comes in for Jansen. Natarajan has a niggle, Unadkat comes in. We got a great squad, the 11 or 12 players playing tonight got to give their everything.”
Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing XI: Travis Head, Mayank Agarwal, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, Jaydev Unadkat.
Mumbai Indians Playing XI: Ishan Kishan (wk), Rohit Sharma, Naman Dhir, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya (c), Tim David, Gerald Coetzee, Shams Mulani, Piyush Chawla, Jasprit Bumrah, Kwena Maphaka.
SRH affect gamers: Nitish Reddy, Washington Sundar, Umran Malik, Glenn Phillips, Upendra Yadav
MI affect gamers: Dewald Brevis, Romario Shepherd, Mohammad Nabi, Vishnu Vinod, Nehal Wadhera
