The first match of Vivo IPL 2021 between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore will be live at 7:30pm, Indian local time
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This is a high valued match between two teams.The depending champions Mumbai Indians under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma and RCB under the captaincy of Virat Kohli, current captain of Indian National Cricket Team.
Mumbai Indians has the second best win percentage is against RCB.And RCB's win percentage is just 34.04 per cent against them.
But RCB spent big bucks in auction for Glenn Maxwell and Kyle Jamieson. Its seems to be very strong squad with AB de Villiers and skipper virat kohli.
On the other hand Mumbai Indians has the same team whom played last edition.They have Pandeya Brothers, Hardik with the fast bowl and Krunal with the spin and they are batters as well. De cock and Pollard are most valuable batter with young Ishan Kishan.
When: April 9,2021 7:30pm IST
Where: M.A. Chidambaram stadium,Chennai.
Team news
Mumbai Indians : Quiton de cock will not be available tonight cause he's in home quarantine. So skipper Rohit and Ishan Kishan will be opening the Friday night clash. Mumbai Indians could be tempted to break away from their set format and play an additional spinner.
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| [Rohit Sharma, MI. ©NewsBytes] |
Probable XI:
Ishan Kishan(wk);
Rohit Sharma (c);
Suriyakumar Yadav ;
Saurab Tiwary;
Hardik Pandeya;
Krunal Pandya ;
Kiron Pollard;
Piyush Chawla;
Rahul Chahar;
Trent Boult;
and Jasprit Bumrah.
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| [RCB Logo, RCB Official Site] |
Royal Challengers Bangalore :
Devdutt Padikkal could be available for this match. Kane Richardson and Adam Jampa are unlikely to be available for selection. Shahbaz Ahmed could be also in contention.
Probable XI:
Devdut Padikkal;
Virat Kohli(c);
Glenn Maxwell;
AB de Villiers;
MD Azhar Uddin ;
Daniel Christian;
Washington Sundor;
Kyle Jamieson;
Navdeep Saini;
MD Siraj ;
and Chahal.
RCB Captain Virat Kohli said, "Having done well last year in such competitive scenario and space,we are very confident that as a side with a stronger squad this time around,we'll have another great season.Just playing in set venues with four teams.I think that's going to nullify all the home advantage that every team used to have."
The author Masum Siraj is the sports analyst of Europeans24.