IPL 2019: Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab preview and head-to-head

In the previous encounter, KXIP won the match by 8 wickets. KXIP has won its 4 matches out of the 6 played so far, while MI has won 3 games of the 5 played.

Mumbai Indians (MI) will have the revenge in mind when they lock horns with Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) at Wankhede stadium on Wednesday(April 10). In the previous encounter, KXIP won the match by 8 wickets. KXIP has won its 4 matches out of the 6 played so far, while MI has won 3 games of the 5 played.

With the scores of KL Rahul (71), Chris Gayle (40) and Mayank Agarwal (43) Punjab comfortably chased the target of 176 with 8 balls remaining in the previous meetup with MI. Punjab won its last match against Sunrisers  Hyderabad while chasing 150 with the scores KL Rahul (71) and Mayank Agarwal (55). With the performance so far, Punjab is the title contender this season.

 

Mumbai Indians have so far played 5 matches and won 3. In the last match when they posted the target of 176 runs for KXIP, only Quinton d cock (60) scored well. Bowlers could not defend the score and could only send 2 Punjab batsmen to the pavilion. Yuvraj Singh has still not shown anything impressive and their bowling department led by Lasith Malinga was not quite impressive against Punjab in the previous match.

Head to Head

Matches played-23

Mumbai won - 12

Punjab won-11

Playing XI

MI :Rohit Sharma, Quinton de Kock, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Krunal Pandya, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Rahul Chahar, Jason Behrendoff, Joseph Alazzari, Jasprit Bumrah

KXIP: Chris Gayle, KL Rahul, Mayan Agrawal, David Miller, Sam Curran, R Ashwin, Murugan Ashwin, Andrew Tye, Mohammed Shami, Ankit Rajpoot, Mandeep Singh

Squad

MI: Rohit Sharma(c), Quinton de Kock(wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Yuvraj Singh, Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Mitchell McClenaghan, Jason Behrendorff, Mayank Markande, Rahul Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah, Alzarri Joseph, Anmolpreet Singh, Siddhesh Lad, Ankul Roy, Evin Lewis, Pankaj Jaiswal, Ben Cutting, Ishan Kishan (wk), Aditya Tare, Rasikh Salam, Barinder Sran, Jayant Yadav.

KXIP: Lokesh Rahul (wk), Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Sarfaraz Khan, David Miller, Mandeep Singh, Sam Curran, Ravichandran Ashwin(c), Andrew Tye, Murugan Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Mujeeb Ur Rehman, Karun Nair, Moises Henriques, Varun Chakravarthi, Harpreet Brar, Simran Singh, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Hardus Viljoen, Ankit Rajpoot, Arshdeep Singh, Darshan Nalkande, Agnivesh Ayachi.

Source: NYOOOZ DESK - IPL 2019