Punjab Kings vs Mumbai Indians Match Preview: The Punjab Kings team, which is in their first title exercise, will have to face the tough challenge of the five -time champions Mumbai Indians team here on Sunday in the second qualifier of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The Punjab Kings, headed by Shreyas Iyer, suffered a crushing defeat in the first qualifier to Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), which would surely have lost his confidence. If Punjab Kings want to become champions for the first time, then they will have to perform their best in this match. The match for both teams is like a semi -final.
Mumbai Indians took another step towards the sixth title by defeating Gujarat Titans, a strong contender for the title in Eliminator. This victory will definitely increase Mumbai’s confidence.
Compared to RCB and Punjab Kings, Mumbai Indians team has more experience of winning in the knockout phase. The challenge in front of his head coach Mahela Jayawardene will be to keep his team organized. However, the former Sri Lankan captain has so far played this role well. He has played an important role in bringing Mumbai Indians to the playoffs, which was at the bottom of the last season.
The challenge for the pair of captain Shreyas Iyer and head coach Ricky Ponting in Punjab Kings will be to ensure that their players forget the crushing defeat in the last match and put their energy in fighting the challenges that especially due to some players being out in the bowling department. This is putting additional pressure on his main fast bowler Arshdeep Singh.
The absence of Marco Jansan and the unavailability of Yuzvendra Chahal, who took the most wickets in the IPL, has become a problem for the team as the options he tried at the place of these players could not perform the expected performance.
To make up for this, the Punjab Kings batsmen will have to perform well. In the last match against RCB, his batsmen could not run and the team management now knows well that there will be a lot of brunt of making a mistake in any department.
As far as Mumbai Indians are concerned, veteran batsman Rohit Sharma took advantage of the two life donations in the beginning and played a big innings against the Gujarat Titans. Rohit has returned to the rhythm again and it will not be easy for Punjab Kings bowlers to curb him.
If seen overall, there is no shortage in the team of Mumbai Indians because it has done well in every department of the game. To reach the finals, his team will be largely dependent on Rohit, Jaspreet Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma and captain Hardik Pandya.
The result of this match to be held at Narendra Modi Stadium will depend largely on the performance of the bowlers as the pitch here is considered to be favorable for the batsmen, on which a large score has been scored. (Language)
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Wicketkeepers:
Jonny bairsstow, josh inglis
Batters
Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Priyansh Arya
All rounders
Marcus Stoinis, Hardik Pandya
Bowlers
Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Arshdeep Singh
Mumbai Indians vs Punjab Kings Head to Head
Mi and PBKS have faced each other in 32 matches in IPL. Out of these 32 matches, Mi has won 17 while PBKS has won on 15 occasions.
The teams are as follows:
Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya (Captain), Suryakumar Yadav, Rohit Sharma, Tilak Verma, Bewon Jacobs, Robin Minj (wicketkeeper), Krishnan Srijit (wicketkeeper), Naman Dhir, Raj Bawa, Michel Santner, Jasprit Bumrah, Arjun Tendulkar, Ashwini Kumar, Rece Topley, Karn, Karna Sharma, Trant Bolt, Mujib ur Rehman, Raghu Sharma, Johnny Bairstow (wicketkeeper), Richard Glison, Chartith Asanka.
Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Nehal Vadhera, Vishnu Vinod (wicketkeeper), Josh English (wicketkeeper), Haranur Pannu, Paila Avinash, Prabhasimran Singh (wicketkeeper), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Harpreet Brar, Ajmatullah Umarajai, Priyansh Arya, Aron Hardi, Suryan Hardi, Surya Hardi, Surya Hardi, Surya Hardi, Surya Hardi. Owen, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Vishal Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Kuldeep Sen, Xavier Bartlet, Praveen Dubey, Kyle Jeamison.
The match will begin at 7:30 pm.
