Looking strong, Delhi Capitals are all set to host Mumbai Indians to bag fourth straight victory at Delhi’s Firoz Shah Kotla stadium.
The Delhi Capitals, who have 5 wins from eight matches, have a solitary win from their three home matches this season. Shreyas Iyer and company have struggled to cope with the slow surfaces that have been dished out and will hope the curator will give them a better surface than he did two weeks ago.
The Mumbai Indians also have won five matches from eight; in their most recent outing, they clinched a thriller against Royal Challengers Bangalore.
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Things have started to fall in place for MI, and they will now focus on finetuning the small things. The one instruction coach Mahela Jayawardene would have passed on to his lads is for the set batsmen to carry on and bat as deep as possible; time and again, it his come down to the middle-order to provide impetus at the end or to finish the run-chase.
With the logjam in the middle of the table, the points available in this match could serve both teams well. The Delhi Capitals have consecutive matches at home, and four points from those games will nearly confirm a playoff berth, while the more points MI gather from their four back-to-back away matches, it will put them in a good position when they return home and play two matches to wind up the league season.
TEAMS
Delhi Capitals: Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Colin Munro, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Chris Morris, Axar Patel, Keemo Paul, Kagiso Rabada, Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma.
Mumbai Indians: Quinton de Kock, Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Krunal Pandya, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Rahul Chahar, Jason Behrendorff, Lasith Malinga, Jasprit Bumrah.