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The greatest reward for Rohit will in all probability be a win. Mumbai are at the moment ninth on the factors desk with three wins from seven video games, and so they come into this match after dealing with two successive defeats.
If Mumbai are trying to find inspiration, they needn’t look any additional than their opposition. Royals had been additionally in an analogous state of affairs earlier than thumping Chennai Super Kings in their earlier game. Currently, they’re second on the desk and can be trying to reclaim the highest spot from Gujarat Titans.
While there are various contests inside this contest, how Mumbai bowl to Royals on the dying may very well be a major one. From overs 17 to 20, Mumbai have been the costliest facet this season, leaking 12.72 runs per over. In the identical section, Royals have scored at 12.03, the second-fastest after Titans (13.06).
Form information
Mumbai Indians LLWWW (final 5 video games, most up-to-date first)
Rajasthan Royals WLLWW
Team information – Archer and Boult set to return
Impact Player technique
Mumbai Indians
If match, Archer is probably going to substitute Riley Meredith. Depending on whether or not Mumbai are batting first or bowling, one in all Tilak Varma or Kumar Kartikeya may very well be used as Impact Player.
Probable XII: 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Ishan Kishan (wk), 3 Cameron Green, 4 Suryakumar Yadav, 5 Tilak Varma, 6 Tim David, 7 Nehal Wadhera, 8 Jofra Archer, 9 Piyush Chawla, 10 Arjun Tendulkar, 11 Kumar Kartikeya, 12 Jason Behrendorff
Left-arm seamer Kuldip Yadav was spectacular in opposition to Super Kings, selecting up 1 for 18 from his three overs, and may retain his place in the facet. He and Devdutt Padikkal may very well be Royals’ Impact Player pair.
Probable XII: 1 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2 Jos Buttler, 3 Sanju Samson (capt, wk), 4 Devdutt Padikkal, 5 Shimron Hetmyer, 6 Dhruv Jurel, 7 R Ashwin, 8 Jason Holder, 9 Trent Boult, 10 Sandeep Sharma, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal, 12 Kuldip Yadav
Stats that matter – Tough check for Rohit and Kishan
Pitch and situations
The Wankhede has hosted three video games to this point this season. In all three, the groups profitable the toss opted to chase and had been profitable on two events. Sunday evening’s game may prolong that pattern additional.
Quotes
“We all know what Jofra can do. He has been a fantastic bowler for many years now. He adds a different dimension to our attack: obviously some good pace, can bowl the new ball and he is very good at the death as well. This has been one area we have struggled with a bit, especially at the death. He can hopefully come in and fulfil that role for us, bowling in those situations.”
Mumbai head coach Mark Boucher on what Archer brings to the facet
The huge query
Will Jofra Archer change Mumbai’s fortunes?
391 votes
No, he is nonetheless not at his greatest
Hemant Brar is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo