Mumbai Indians team will have to show strength against Gujarat Titans, players will have to improve performance in death overs
The battleground of Gujarat is going to be fought once again in which Gujarat Titans are going to clash with Mumbai Indians. In this match, where Mumbai Indians will find a way to make their comeback, Gujarat Titans will take the field with the intention of maintaining their winning streak.
Significantly, the Mumbai Indians team would like to win against Gujarat after facing defeat from Punjab Kings in their previous match. At the same time, Gujarat Titans will also compete in their favor so that they can stay ahead in the playoff battle. However, in the match to be held in Ahmedabad on Tuesday, Mumbai Indians will need to improve their game. Mumbai will have to improve their death overs bowling.
Let us tell you that in the 16th season of the Indian Premier League, Mumbai Indians scored a hat-trick of victories after a bad start. But on Saturday, he had to face defeat by Punjab Kings by 13 runs against Mumbai Indians. The performance of Mumbai Indians bowlers in this match was quite disappointing. At the same time, even in the death overs, the bowlers of the team disappointed a lot. The Mumbai bowlers conceded 96 runs in the last five overs as Punjab managed to post 214 for eight.
Bowling will have to improve in the death overs
To stay in the race for the playoffs, Mumbai Indians will have to save themselves from bowling badly in the death overs. In the match against Gujarat, Mumbai Indians will have to overcome this weakness. Mumbai has bowlers like Arjun Tendulkar, Jason Behrendorff, Cameron Green and Jofra Archer, but their performance has been quite disappointing. In the last matches, he has looted a lot of runs in one over. Arjun Tendulkar had looted 31 runs. In such a situation, players will have to refrain from looting more runs. At the same time, experienced spinner Piyush Chawla and his young partner Hrithik Shokeen bowled well. Mumbai’s batting has looked strong in the matches so far. Captain Rohit Sharma and Ishaan Kishan give a good start to the team, while Suryakumar Yadav is also returning to form, which will strengthen the Mumbai team. Apart from these, all-rounders Green and Tim David have also made useful contributions with the bat. If we talk about playing in front of Gujarat, then the Gujarat team has a strong bowling attack, due to which the Mumbai batsmen will have to play very carefully.
Gujarat’s bowling improved
It is noteworthy that till now the Gujarat bowlers were criticized for not defending the score this season but against Lucknow Supergiants, they successfully defended their low score by bowling brilliantly in the death overs. The hero of Gujarat’s victory was veteran Mohit Sharma, who was adjudged player of the match. Chasing a target of 136 runs in this match, Lucknow scored 105 runs for one wicket in 14 overs but Gujarat was able to win the match due to Mohit’s brilliant bowling.
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.
Squad: 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 Jansen, Piyush Chawla, Kumar Kartikeya, Raghav Goyal, Jofra Archer, Jason Behrendorff, Akash Madhwal. The match will start at 7:30 pm Indian time.
