Rohit Sharma, captain of the Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bowl first at the Wankhede Stadium against the Punjab Kings. Jofra Archer is finally back for Mumbai but Punjab Kings captain Shikhar Dhawan still misses the playing 11.
Why is Dhawan not playing today?
The senior opener reportedly hurt himself during his team’s loss to the Gujarat Titans, the defending champions, and hasn’t fully recovered. Atharva Taide will open in his absence.
What did the captains say at the toss?
Sam Curran: Back to back games and not much time to think about it. No Shikhar Dhawan, that’s why I am here but he’s recovering and should be back soon. Great opportunity for the others to put their hand and we are going with the same team. Lot of close games for us. We would have bowled as well, that is the trend but hopefully we do well. Have a good powerplay and then take it from there.
Rohit Sharma: We are going to have a bowl first. Really nice to have some wins under the belt, winning is always nice and the atmosphere is good but the job is not done. Quite surprisingly nice and pleasant. Looking forward to this game. We have had some injuries but Jofra is back and that is the only change. Wankhede is a good pitch to bat on and it gets better as the game goes on, hopefully we restrict them and chase it down later.
Teams
Punjab Kings (Playing XI): Atharva Taide, Prabhsimran Singh, Matthew Short, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran(c), Jitesh Sharma(w), Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Shahrukh Khan, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh
Punjab Kings Subs: Nathan Ellis, Mohit Rathee, Sikandar Raza, Rishi Dhawan, Gurnoor Brar
Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan(w), Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David, Tilak Varma, Arjun Tendulkar, Hrithik Shokeen, Jofra Archer, Piyush Chawla, Jason Behrendorff
Mumbai Indians Subs: Ramandeep Singh , Kumar Kartikeya, Shams Mulani, Vishnu Vinod, Nehal Wadhera
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