Mumbai and Bangalore square off each other to fight for the top two finish in Wednesday encounter in Indian T20 League 2020.
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The rise of the bottom sides in the second half made the playoffs task on hold for the top three sides and Mumbai and Bangalore are amongst these two sides. Both have met each other in Dubai last month and Bangalore had the last laugh in super over the finish.
The injury issue of Rohit Sharma and he was also seen practicing but Mumbai will try to give him another week of rest. Pollard will lead the side one more time. The concerns are not big for the defending champions despite an 8-wickets loss to Rajasthan. The epic bowling failure hurt their game.
Bangalore also lost to Chennai in their last encounter with the same margin and they need to step ahead from the reliability on Kohli and ABD. Without these two, the middle-order is pretty poor.
The bowling was below average. Moeen Ali will be replaced by Udana and Kohli might think about Dubey in place of Gurkeerat to get some overs and fire. Both sides have 14 points but Mumbai is ahead of Bangalore with better NRR. Winner of this game will seal a playoff berth and boost their chances for the top two finishes.
Pitch Report
Abu Dhabi’s track is a pure batting track in night matches. It offers a good amount of runs and the surface gets slow but this track doesn’t behave like Dubai’s pitch. It’s a 170-180 scoring ground and chasing is also not an easy affair but achievable too.
Possible XI
Mumbai
Quinton de Kock (wk), Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Saurabh Tiwary, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard (c), Krunal Pandya, James Pattinson, Rahul Chahar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah
Bangalore
Devdutt Padikkal, Aaron Finch, Virat Kohli (c), AB de Villiers (wk), Isuru Udana, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Chris Morris, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal
Key Players
Mumbai
Quinton de Kock
Jasprit Bumrah
Bangalore
Virat Kohli
Yuzvendra Chahal
MyTeam11 Fantasy XI :
Wicket-Keeper : ABD, Quinton De Kock
Batsmen : Virat Kohli, Devdutt Paddikal, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya
All-Rounders : Chris Morris, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya
Bowlers : Y.Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah
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