IPL 2016 Todays Match Schedule |T20 Vivo IPL 9 Live Highlights, IPL 2016 Todays Match Schedule |T20 Vivo IPL 9 Live Highlights.His assessment is correct for the nine games that did not see a par score. In five of them, teams lost two or more wickets in power-play. Once that is the case, rebuilding is on the mind of batsmen. Mumbai lost four wickets against Pune, Daredevils lost four against Knight Riders, Sunrisers lost three against KKR and Mumbai lost two against Gujarat and Sunrisers.
While these games may highlight the haste right from the start, with batsmen unsure of what would be a par score, the remaining games show the importance of losing the plot at a crucial stage.
After building a foundation, KXIP lost David Miller and Glenn Maxwell in the same over to Gujarat’s Dwayne Bravo. Wriddhiman Saha couldn’t go with the flow and consumed 25 deliveries to score 20. Pune too experienced that as they lost three wickets in the space of 30 runs against Gujarat.
Mumbai all-rounder Keiron Pollard said it was not about batting first, as the pressure was no less batting second. “Batsmen chasing have a lot of pressure, yes, you know what you are chasing, but still you will have to go out and chase. If you lose a couple of wickets, you are on the back foot and might have to change your game. It is about giving important contributions,”
Bowlers: With the match being played at Delhi, skipper Rohit’s trump card has to be his pacers and he will depend a lot upon Jasprit Bumrah who knows the Indian condition pretty well and is enjoying a very good patch currently. The other two names will be Tim Southee and Mitchell McClenaghan. Rohit’s India teammate Hardik Pandya has so far failed to impress in this edition of IPL and the skipper can give Nathu Singh a chance on this ground while Harbhajan leads the spin alongside Krunal Pandya.
Mumbai Indians likely XI: Rohit Sharma(c), Unmukt Chand, Ambati Rayudu (wk), Jos Buttler, Kieron Pollard, Harbhajan Singh, Krunal Pandya, Mitchell McClenaghan, Tim Southee, Nathu Singh, Jasprit Bumrah
MI's big profile players stepping up augurs well for the team. Add to that new addition Krunal Pandya's utility and the side seems a formidable one. That though is one thing. But whether their foreign players can stack up equally to a promising bunch of domestic youngsters at the Daredevils will be worth witnessing.
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi
Date: April 23, 2016
Time: 16:00 IST
Temperature: Hot conditions. Temperature to go past 40 degree Celsius
Team News
Delhi Daredevils
Having won consecutive matches, the Daredevils are unlikely to make any changes to the XI that beat RCB. However, if the surface assists turn, they could consider playing Imran Tahir in place of Carlos Brathwaite, which can make for a riveting spell of bowling between him, Amit Mishra and Pawan Negi. MI have struggled against spin and that is something Zaheer Khan must have definitely taken note of.
Probable XI: 1 Quinton de Kock (wk), 2 Shreyas Iyer, 3 Sanju Samson, 4 Karun Nair, 5 JP Duminy, 6 Carlos Brathwaite/Imran Tahir, 7 Chris Morris, 8 Pawan Negi, 9 Zaheer Khan (capt), 10 Amit Mishra, 11 Mohammed Shami
Mumbai Indians
Having tinkered way too much in the first five matches, they seemed to have found the ideal team combination against RCB. Parthiv Patel's run at the top has been disappointing though. MI already have a wicketkeeper playing in Jos Buttler. In such a scenario, drafting in Unmukt Chand ahead of Parthiv may not be that bad a move. Rohit Sharma getting back to opening the innings has given MI wins, hence that is something the team management must not consider altering.
