Stand-in skipper Sam Curran gained the toss and Punjab Kings elected to bowl first towards Mumbai Indians within the essential IPL 2024 sport on Thursday. Shikhar Dhawan remained absent however Punjab Kings made two large modifications to their taking part in eleven at Mullanpur’s Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium.
Punjab lastly dropped struggling star Jonny Bairstow and changed the Englishman with new signing Rilee Rossouw. The South African batter price INR 8 crore within the participant public sale however was not capable of crack into Punjab’s beginning eleven within the first seven video games.Â
“We will have a bowl,” Sam Curran stated after successful the toss. “Keeping up with the trend of the tournament. Shikhar is not well, so that’s the only injury and Rilee comes in for Jonny today. It is not nice to lose the close games but we are doing a lot of things right. Taide drops out of the side, just a couple of tactical changes.”
On the opposite hand, Mumbai Indians remained unchanged from their large loss towards Chennai Super Kings within the final sport. Pacer Akash Madhwal was dropped to the bench as Suryakumar Yadav got here into the taking part in eleven with Mumbai batting first.
“We were wanting to bat first as well, so good toss to lose,” Hardik Pandya stated. “We don’t judge, couple of times we had the game in our grasp and didn’t finish the game, IPL tests you, when the game is not over it is not over. We just take it game by game, go out there and give our 100 percent. Every indivdual should commit to the team’s goal and once we do that, the results will be seen. Same team.”
Punjab Kings Playing XI: Rilee Rossouw, Prabhsimran Singh, Sam Curran (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Liam Livingstone, Shashank Singh, Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh.
Mumbai Indians Playing XI: Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya (c), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Mohammad Nabi, Gerald Coetzee, Shreyas Gopal, Jasprit Bumrah.
Mumbai Indians Impact Subs:Â Akash Madhwal, Nuwan Thushara, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Naman Dhir.
Punjab Kings Impact Subs:Â Rahul Chahar, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Harpreet Brar, Shivam Singh, Rishi Dhawan.
