Match Details
Date: April 14, 2024
Time : 7:30 PM IST
Venue : Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
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Preview
Mumbai Indians will go up against Chennai Super Kings in the 29th match of the IPL 2024 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Following their two consecutive home wins, MI have turned the corner at the best possible time during their IPL 2024 campaign after a torrid start to the season. On the other side, CSK picked up a much-needed win at home, to give some momentum to their IPL title defence after two consecutive defeats on their travels.
Pitch Report
The pitches at the Wankhede Stadium have produced two high scoring matches in the IPL 2024 after the low scoring match to start off the season. The average first innings score at this venue in the tournament history is 170, which is something both MI and CSK will be aiming to achieve at the very least, to have a fighting chance during their high stakes match in the league phase of the IPL.
Team Analysis
Mumbai Indians
The arrival of Suryakumar Yadav with a swashbuckling fifty in the previous match against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru, while chasing a 196-run total, added a new dimension to an already impressive Mumbai Indians batting lineup, which has players like Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan, the captain Hardik Pandya, and Tim David, among others. The five-wicket haul from Jasprit Bumrah in the same match, along with the key scalps from a couple of other bowlers, showed that the Mumbai Indians bowling lineup has enough tools in the arsenal to take on any and all comers in the ongoing IPL 2024 season.
IPL 2024 squad of Mumbai Indians
Hardik Pandya (c), Rohit Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, N. Tilak Varma, Tim David, Harvik Desai, Arjun Tendulkar, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Luke Wood, Romario Shepherd, Gerald Coetzee, Shreyas Gopal, Nuwan Thushara, Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Mohammad Nabi, Shivalik Sharma, Kwena Maphaka. Players injured/withdrawn: Jason Behrendorff, Dilshan Madushanka, Vishnu Vinod.
Chennai Super Kings
Ruturaj Gaikwad, the captain of Chennai Super Kings, played an anchor’s innings, scoring a fifty while chasing a 137-run total on a tricky pitch against Kolkata Knight Riders, to find himself in form just before the key clash against the arch-rivals in the IPL 2024. In the bowling side of things, the wickets from spinners Ravindra Jadeja and Maheesh Theekshana were a massive positive for Chennai Super Kings, who have mostly relied on their fast bowlers in the early stages of the tournament.
IPL 2024 squad of Chennai Super Kings
Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), MS Dhoni, Moeen Ali, Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Shivam Dube, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ravindra Jadeja, Ajay Mandal, Mukesh Choudhary, Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Mitchell Santner, Simarjeet Singh, Nishant Sindhu, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana, Rachin Ravindra, Shardul Thakur, Daryl Mitchell, Sameer Rizvi, Mustafizur Rahman, Avanish Rao Aravelly , Matheesha Pathirana . Players injured/withdrawn: Devon Conway.
Match Prediction
Conclusion
Mumbai Indians will be fancying their chances of winning their first match against the arch-rivals Chennai Super Kings in two years after hitting form as a collective unit in the recent round of matches in the IPL 2024 season.
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