IPL 2019: Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians preview and head to head

Rajasthan Royals will look a chance to climb up on the points table when it faces Mumbai Indians in the first match of Saturday at Sawai Man Singh stadium on April 20. Mumbai which has climbed up to the second spot after winning against Delhi Capitals has won six matches out of 9 while Rajasthan has just won 2 games of the 8 games played so far.

Rajasthan Royals will look a chance to climb up on the points table when it faces Mumbai Indians in the first match of Saturday at Sawai Man Singh stadium on April 20. Mumbai which has climbed up to the second spot after winning against Delhi Capitals has won six matches out of 9 while Rajasthan has just won 2 games of the 8 games played so far.

Rajasthan Royals lost its last match to Kings XI Punjab at IS Bindra stadium when it failed to chase the target of 182. Rahul Tripathi scored 50 off 45 balls, Stuart Binny got 33 off 11 balls but Rajasthan got short of  12 runs and team fell on 170 for 7 wickets in 20 overs. Victory against Mumbai is the only victory of Rajasthan in last 4 matches played by the team and they have lost three games at the home ground.

 

Mumbai Indians, on the other hand, is in good momentum with the good mix of power hitters and clever bowlers. Mumbai has won its last match against Delhi Capitals by 40 runs.  With the scores of Hardik Pandya (32 off 15 balls) and  Krunal Pandya (37 off 26) Mumbai posted the total of 168. In addition to power hitters, Mumbai has two best death overs bowlers Lasith Malinga and Jasprit Bumrah

Head to Head

Matches- 20

Mumbai won -10

Rajasthan won -09

No result -01

 

Probable XI: 

Rajasthan Royals: Ajinkya Rahane (C), Joffra Archer, Jos Butler, Ashton Turner,  Sanju Samson (WK), Steve Smith, Stuart Binny, Shreyas Gopal, Jaydev Unadkat,  Dhawal Kulkarni, Rahul Tripathi.

Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (C), Quinton de Kock (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Krunal Pandya, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Chahar, Ben Cutting, Lasith Malinga, Jasprit Bumrah.

Squads:

Rajasthan Royals: Ajinkya Rahane (C), Ben Stokes, Joffre Archer, Jos Butler, Ashton Turner, Ish Sodhi, Oshane Thomas, Liam Livingstone, Sanju Samson (WK), Shubham Ranjane, Steve Smith, Stuart Binny, Shreyas Gopal, Sudhesan Midhun, Jaydev Unadkat, Prashant Chopra, Mahipal Lomror, Aryaman Birla, Riyan Parag, Dhawal Kulkarni, Krishnappa Gowtham, Varun Aaron, Shashank Singh, Manan Vohra, Rahul Tripathi.

Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (C), Quinton de Kock (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Krunal Pandya, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Chahar, Ben Cutting, Lasith Malinga, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuvraj Singh, Anmolpreet Singh, Aditya Tare, Siddhedh Lad, Evin Lewis, Pankaj Jaiswal, Anukul Roy, Mayank Markande, Mitchell McClenaghan, Barinder Sran, Rasikh Salam, Ishan Kishan, Jason Behrendorff.

 

Source: NYOOOZ DESK - IPL 2019