Mumbai Indians will be looking to stretch their winning run to three games in a row when they take on Rajasthan Royals at Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. MI are currently sitting at the second spot in the table having won three out of their five games so far. Their net run rate is the highest among all teams so far and a win in this match will take them to the top of the table.
Rajasthan Royals, on the other hand, have lost two games in a row after winning their first two matches. Their batting firepower helped them to win both of their matches at Sharjah, but their limitations were discovered once they came out of the venue to play at other grounds. Their bowling has been quite bad and the failure of the top order to put on big scores in the last couple of matches has hurt them bad. It remains to be seen how they recover from this.
Team News
Mumbai don’t have any major injury concerns at the moment and their supreme form suggests that they will go with an unchanged XI. Rajasthan, on the other hand, might replace an out of form Robin Uthappa with the talented youngster, Yashasvi Jaiswal.
Probable Playing XIs
Mumbai Indians
Rohit Sharma (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, James Pattinson, Rahul Chahar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah
Rajasthan Royals
Jos Buttler (wk), Yashasvi Jaiswal/Robin Uthappa, Sanju Samson, Steve Smith (c), Riyan Parag. Mahipal Lomror, Tom Curran, Rahul Tewatia, Jofra Archer, Shreyas Gopal, Jaydev Unadkat/Varun Aaron
Fantasy Tips
- You have to trust Mumbai’s top order to come good against an average RR bowling unit. So all of Quinton de Kock, Rohit Sharma, and Suryakumar Yadav are good assets for this game.
- Kieron Pollard and Hardik Pandya have been in devastating batting form. They are good picks for this match as well.
- As far as RR is concerned, you don’t need to look beyond assets like Jos Buttler, Steven Smith, Jofra Archer, Sanju Samson, and Rahul Tewatia from their team.
Fantasy Team
Jos Buttler
Quinton de Kock
Rohit Sharma
Suryakumar Yadav
Steven Smith
Kieron Pollard
Rahul Tewatia
Mahipal Lomror
Jofra Archer
Trent Boult
James Pattinson
