Mumbai-Punjab clash in Wankhede today, role of toss and spinners important; Playing-11 can be like this

MI vs PBKS Pitch Report: Mumbai Indians and Punjab Kings will clash in the second match of IPL today (April 22). This match will start at 7.30 pm. Both the teams will be face to face in Mumbai Indians’ home ground ‘Wankhede’. The team chasing on this ground has a higher success rate. In such a situation, the role of toss will be important. Spinners will also get good help on this pitch.

From IPL 2021 till now, a total of 32 T20 matches have been played at Wankhede during the night. In these 22 matches, the team batting later has won. Here there is a big factor in the night time which creates difficulties for the bowlers in the second innings. In such a situation, the team that wins the toss prefers to chase here.

Analyzing the matches held here in IPL 2023, we find that spin bowlers will dominate this ground in today’s match. In fact, in the matches held here this season, the spinners have done better than the fast bowlers. Where the spinners bowled with an economy rate of 7.64 and took 13 wickets. At the same time, the fast bowlers have taken only 9 wickets while bowling with an economy of 10.17.

Possible playing-11 of both the teams

Mumbai Indians Playing-11 (Batting first): Rohit Sharma (Captain), Ishaan Kishan (Wicket-keeper), Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma, Nehal Wadhera, Tim David, Arjun Tendulkar, Hrithik Shokeen, Piyush Chawla, Jason Behrendorff.

Mumbai Indians Playing-11 (Bowling first): Rohit Sharma (Captain), Ishan Kishan (Wicket-keeper), Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Nehal Wadhera, Tim David, Piyush Chawla, Hrithik Shokeen, Arjun Tendulkar, Jason Behrendorff, Riley Meredith.

Mumbai Indians Impact Players: Riley Meredith/Tilak Verma.

Punjab Kings Playing-11 (Batting first): Atharva Tayde, Prabhsimran Singh, Sikandar Raza, Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Shah Rukh Khan, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada.

Punjab Kings Playing-11 (Bowling first): Atharva Tayde, Sikandar Raza, Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran (captain), Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Shah Rukh Khan, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar.

Punjab Kings Impact Players: Rahul Chahar / Prabhsimran Singh.

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