Match Details
Date: May 17, 2024
Time : 7:30 PM IST
Venue : Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
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Preview
Mumbai Indians will take on Lucknow Super Giants in the 67th match of the IPL 2024 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. After getting eliminated from the playoffs race in the IPL, Mumbai Indians are going to take the field for the final time in the 2024 season. Lucknow Super Giants have an outside chance of making the playoffs if they win their final league stage match of the IPL 2024, if the other results go their way.
Pitch Report
The pitches at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai have been very good for batting in the IPL 2024, just like most other venues in the competition. With that, the average first innings score of 170 at this venue in the history of the IPL, will be very tough for either MI or LSG to defend in the upcoming match in the tournament.
Team Analysis
Mumbai Indians
Apart from Tilak Varma and Suryakumar Yadav, no other batter has found any consistency for Mumbai Indians in their last few matches, which led to their elimination from the IPL 2024. In the bowling side of things, Jasprit Bumrah has been fantastic for MI right throughout the tournament, holding the Purple Cap currently, but the lack of telling contributions from rest of the bowlers has been far from ideal for the team.
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 Players injured/withdrawn: Jason Behrendorff, Dilshan Madushanka, Vishnu Vinod.
Lucknow Super Giants
The captain of Lucknow Super Giants, KL Rahul, and most of the other top batters didn’t play anywhere close to their best in the last couple of matches of IPL 2024, putting the team in a tough spot in regard to making the playoffs three times in a row. The bowling attack of LSG hasn’t been at strength this time, and it was showcased to the fullest in their recent losses against SRH and DC.
IPL 2024 Squad of Lucknow Super Giants
KL Rahul (c), Quinton de Kock, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Devdutt Padikkal, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Krunal Pandya, Yudhvir Singh, Prerak Mankad, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Shamar Joseph, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, K. Gowtham, Arshin Kulkarni, M. Siddharth, Ashton Turner, Matt Henry, Mohd. Arshad Khan. Players injured/withdrawn: Mark Wood, David Willey, Shivam Mavi.
Match Prediction
Conclusion
Despite the fact that Mumbai Indians have played ordinary cricket for most of the IPL 2024, they have a lot of great individual players who possess the ability to turn the match on its head in their team’s favour. Therefore, they will be slight favourites going into their final game of the season against a struggling Lucknow Super Giants.
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