IPL-2023: Mumbai Indians will have to solve the mystery of death overs against Gujarat Titans.
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Ahmedabad. After winning three consecutive matches, the team of Mumbai Indians, who faced defeat from Punjab Kings in the last match, has to return to winning ways again in the Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Gujarat Titans here on Tuesday. So he has to improve his death overs bowling.
Mumbai scored a hat-trick of wins after a poor start but suffered a 13-run defeat to Punjab in the last match on Saturday. In this match, Mumbai bowlers gave 96 runs in the last five overs, which helped Punjab to score 214 runs for eight wickets. Before the match against Gujarat, Mumbai will have to deal with poor death bowling. Mumbai pacers Arjun Tendulkar, Jason Behrendorff, Cameron Green and Jofra Archer each conceded more than 40 runs in that match.
Experienced spinner Piyush Chawla and his young partner Hrithik Shokeen, however, bowled well. Mumbai’s batting though looks strong. While skipper Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan have given the team a good start, Suryakumar Yadav returning to form is a positive sign for the team. Apart from these, all-rounders Green and Tim David have also made useful contributions with the bat.
Gujarat’s bowling attack, however, is strong and in such a situation, the task will not be easy for the Mumbai batsmen. Gujarat’s bowlers were criticized for not defending their scores this season but against Lucknow Supergiants, they successfully defended their low scores by bowling brilliantly in the death overs. The hero of this victory for Gujarat was the experienced Mohit Sharma, who Player of the match was adjudged. Chasing a target of 136 runs in this match, Lucknow scored 105 runs for one wicket in 14 overs but Mohit’s excellent bowling helped Gujarat win the match. Mohit successfully defended 12 runs in the last over.
While Mohit has done exceptionally well for Gujarat, the experienced Mohammed Shami has also left no stone unturned in taking wickets. Captain Hardik Pandya, however, has not been able to show amazing with bowling so far and only one wicket has been recorded in his name so far. Gujarat’s spin attack, led by Rashid Khan, is also strong and includes Afghanistan wrist-spinner Noor Ahmed and veteran Jayant Yadav. In the last match, Jayant conceded only seven runs in his last two overs while Noor Ahmed took two wickets for five runs in his last two overs.
In batting, Wriddhiman Saha and Shubman Gill have been contributing well in the top order while skipper Hardik Pandya top-scored in the last match. However, Gujarat needs to perform well in the middle overs. For this, it would be right to send David Miller to bat in the upper order.
Teams are as follows:
Gujarat Titans: Hardik Pandya (Captain), Shrikar Bharat, Alzarri Joseph, Josh Little, Abhinav Manohar, David Miller, Mohammed Shami, Darshan Nalkande, Noor Ahmed, Urvil Patel, Rashid Khan, Wriddhiman Saha, R Sai Kishore, Sai Sudarshan, Pradeep Sangwan, Dasun Shanaka, Vijay Shankar, Mohit Sharma, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Odion Smith, Rahul Tewatia, Matthew Wade, Jayant Yadav, Yash Dayal.
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (c), Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David, Dewald Brewis, Tilak Verma, Ishan Kishan (wk), Tristan Stubbs, Vishnu Vinod, Cameron Green, Arjun Tendulkar, Ramandeep Singh, Shams Mulani, Riley Meredith, Nehal Wadhera , Hrithik Shokeen, Arshad Khan, Duane Janssen, Piyush Chawla, Kumar Kartikeya, Raghav Goyal, Jofra Archer, Jason Behrendorff, Akash Madhwal.
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