In an opening match for Mumbai Indians, Rohit Sharma and team are going to face Shreyas Iyer led Delhi Capitals at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. The match is scheduled to played at 8PM in the evening. Delhi Franchise has changed their name from Delhi Daredevils to Delhi Capitals and the players too have faith and excitement among this season. Delhi Capitals has always been down on the Points table, but this time they will look ahead to turn things up. Gautam Gambhir was appointed the captain in 2018, but due to consecutive defeats, he decided to quit captaincy. Hence the youngster Shreyas Iyer was roped in the captaincy and did pretty well.
Delhi Capitals are going to miss Glenn Maxwell, who has decided to put himself on a national duty and prepare for ICC World Cup 2019. But, Delhi Squad has got some new emerging player in the team. The team has got the best opening slot in the form of Shikhar Dhawan. On the other side, Rohit Sharma’s squad is look absolutely balanced as it looks always. Also, this time they have got a good wicket-keeper Batsmen Quinton De Kock and the man with record of 6 sixes in 1 over Yuvraj Singh. Yuvraj Singh though hasn’t performed well in past few seasons, but this time he would like to change the bad image of him.
The match is scheduled to be played at Wankhede Stadium, which offers help for both the batsmen and bowlers. During a limited over match like IPL, it gives little bit of favour to bowlers in the start, but later on its all about batting. The Average run score in Wankhede is 239 in 1st innings and 205 in second innings. Likewise, it is expected to have a high scoring match tonight.
Probable XI:
Delhi Capitals: Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Shreyas Iyer (C), Colin Ingram/Colin Munro, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sherfane Rutherford, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Sandeep Lamichhane, Ishant Sharma, Trent Boult
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (C), Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan/Quinton De Kock (WK), Yuvraj Singh, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Hardik Pandya, Ben Cutting, Mitchell McClenaghan, Mayank Markande, Jasprit Bumrah
Teams:
Delhi Capitals: Colin Munro, Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer(c), Colin Ingram, Rishabh Pant(w), Axar Patel, Sandeep Lamichhane, Kagiso Rabada, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Amit Mishra, Hanuma Vihari, Ishant Sharma, Ankush Bains, Harshal Patel, Jalaj Saxena, Manjot Kalra, Keemo Paul, Sherfane Rutherford, Rahul Tewatia, Nathu Singh, Bandaru Ayyappa
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma(c), Quinton de Kock, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan(w), Yuvraj Singh, Hardik Pandya, Evin Lewis, Krunal Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Ben Cutting, Aditya Tare, Anmolpreet Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mitchell McClenaghan, Rahul Chahar, Mayank Markande, Barinder Sran, Jayant Yadav, Anukul Roy, Rasikh Salam, Siddhesh Lad, Pankaj Jaiswal