Mumbai Indians (MI) take on Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at Wankhede Stadium on Sunday in an IPL clash,
The hosts have to win the match in order to have an outside chance of making it to the play-offs.
SRH, on the other hand, will be playing for pride having been already eliminated from the play-offs race. They will hope to end their campaign on a high and spoil MI's party.
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Here is a comprehensive guide on the pitch report, live toss, predicted lineups, and team news ahead of MI and SRH.
MI vs SRH pitch report
MI are set to host SRH at the iconic Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The stadium which hosted the memorable 2011 World Cup final, has a capacity of 33,108.
"Dimensions - 63 metres and 67 metres square, 72 metres downtown. I see the red soil sticking out. From history, this is a very very good wicket. The wicket is knit together quite nicely which means it's a good cricket wicket. Yorkers and good length has worked for the bowlers, everything else has been absolutely dispatched. It's a great surface, heavy length, top of off-stump is absolutely vital because of how good the wicket is," opined Simon Doull and Kevin Pietersen.
The Wankhede pitch, historically, has been known to favour the batsmen. The average first innings score in IPL 2023 at the Wankhede stadium is 171.
MI have played six times at this venue this season against CSK, PBKS, KKR, RR, RCB & GT. While they beat KKR, RR, RCB & GT they went down against CSK and PBKS.
MI vs SRH live toss
Mumbai Indians have won the toss and have opted to field
MI vs SRH team news
MI: "(Hrithik) Shokeen is not playing. Kartikeya is in," informed skipper Rohit Sharma.
SRH: Sanvir Singh, Umran Malik, Mayank Agarwal return for SRH.
MI vs SRH confirmed line-ups
MI: Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan(w), Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Chris Jordan, Piyush Chawla, Jason Behrendorff, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal
SRH: Mayank Agarwal, Vivrant Sharma, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Harry Brook, Nitish Reddy, Glenn Phillips, Sanvir Singh, Mayank Dagar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik
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MI vs SRH: Who can be the Impact Player?
MI Subs: Ramandeep Singh, Vishnu Vinod. Tristan Stubbs, Tilak Varma, Sandeep Warrier
MI could substitute Akash Madhwal and bring in Tilak Varma as their impact player.
SRH Subs: Mayank Markande, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Akeal Hosein, Abdul Samad
SRH could swap Mayank Markande with Sanvir Singh.
