Bumrah-led MI opt to bowl; PBKS pick Omarzai

Toss Mumbai Indians selected to bowl vs Punjab Kings

With Hardik Pandya nonetheless recovering from again spasms and Suryakumar Yadav out due to private causes, Jasprit Bumrah led Mumbai Indians (MI) and opted to bowl first after profitable the toss.

This is the primary time Bumrah is main MI. I’ve anticipated the pitch to calm down within the second half and grow to be simpler to bat.

MI made two modifications. They introduced in Sherfane Rutherford and Shardul Thakur for Suryakumar and AM Ghazanfar.

PBKS captain Shreyas Iyer mentioned he too wished to bowl first. They made three modifications. Marcus Stoinis, Ben Dwarshuis and Yash Thakur went out. In got here Azmatullah Omarzai, Xavier Bartlett and Harpreet Brar. Brar was not a part of the bat-first XI and is probably going to are available in as Impact Player when PBKS bowl.

The match is being performed on a recent pitch. The sq. boundaries are 63 meters and 68 meters. The straight boundary is 72 meters.

After staying unbeaten for the primary seven video games of the season, PBKS have now misplaced 4 in a row. They are nonetheless fourth on the factors desk however one other defeat might jeopardize their possibilities of making the playoffs. MI have been eradicated from the playoffs race and will probably be enjoying for pleasure.

Punjab Kings: 1 Priyansh Arya, 2 Prabhsimran Singh (wk), 3 Shreyas Iyer (capt), 4 Cooper Connolly, 5 Azmatullah Omarzai, 6 Shashank Singh, 7 Suryansh Shedge, 8 Marco Jansen, 9 Xavier Bartlett, 10 Arshdeep Singh, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal

Impact Player bench: Vijaykumar Vyshak, Harpreet Brar, Mitchell Owen, Vishnu Vinod, Praveen Dubey

Mumbai Indians: 1 Ryan Rickelton (wk), 2 Naman Dhir, 3 Tilak Varma, 4 Will Jacks, 5 Sherfane Rutherford, 6 Raj Bawa, 7 Corbin Bosch, 8 Shardul Thakur, 9 Deepak Chahar, 10 Jasprit Bumrah (capt), 11 Raghu Sharma

Impact Player bench: Rohit Sharma, Mayank Rawat, Robin Minz, Krish Bhagat, Trent Boult