Today’s IPL match is a face off between SunRisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians at Wankhede Stadium, the latter’s home ground. MI won the toss and opted to bowl first. Find out why Aiden Markram is missing from today’s IPL 2024 clash against MI.
SRH is positioned at number 4 on the points table while MI is currently stuck to the bottom. Losing today’s match will make MI the first team to be officially ruled off of the run for IPL 2024 playoffs.
While the Hardik Pandya-led side have lost eight of their 11 games till now, SRH have won six of their 10 matches. MI need to win all of their remaining games and hope other results go their way in order to make it to the playoffs. Thus being said, while MI is still mathematically in the line for the playoffs, virtually they are out of the competition.
Aiden Markram not playing today’s match
SRH dropped star South African cricketer Aiden Markram from their starting eleven. Since Pat Cummins and Co. didn’t reveal the reason behind Markram’s absence, this suggests a tactical change from the management.
Earlier, Captain Pat had accepted that Aiden Markram has been replaced by Marco Jansen in the team. Jansen, a bowling all-rounder, forms a pace partnership with Pat Cummins, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and T Natarajan.
In the last SRHvsMI match, Markram had scored 42*(28) when SRH collectively scored 277 and won the match.
Playing XI for SRH vs MI
For SRH, the playing XI are:
Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Mayank Agarwal, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Marco Jansen, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar and T Natarajan
While MI has given a chance to these members to play tonight:
Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Ishan Kishan(w), Rohit Sharma, Naman Dhir, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Tim David, Anshul Kamboj, Piyush Chawla, Jasprit Bumrah, Nuwan Thushara
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