Both teams are impact and each of these teams have super destructive players, that can change the course of the match within a few overs. Although, both these teams will be clashing a neutral venue, that will ideally suit spin and that’s something that makes the Lucknow Super Giants a slight favourite. But for the benefit of Mumbai, the form of Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma would be a big bliss for Mumbai. Talking about momentum, both the teams have found their peak form off-lately and should bring them in a great mindset into this must win game.
PREVIOUS ENCOUNTER – Both these teams clashed in the 64th match of this year’s edition, where Lucknow came out on top by a small margin of just 5 runs. Batting first, Lucknow were in trouble at 35/3 from where Krunal Pandya had a brilliant partnership with Marcus Stoinis, from where Stoinis finished incredibly well to get Lucknow to 177/3. Chasing 178 to win, MI got off to a flyer, where it lost its first wicket at 90. But some tight fielding with some some excellent fielding later in the innings allowed LSG to win by 5 runs, despite 19 ball 32 runs by Tim David.
Head-to-Head - Played - 3; Won by LSG – 3; Won by MI – 0
LSG possible 12 – K Sharma, Q de Kock, P Mankad, M Stoinis, N Pooran, K Pandya, A Badoni, K Gowtham, R Bishnoi, N Ul Haq, M Khan, Y Thakur
MI possible 12 – R Sharma, I Kishan, C Green, S Yadav, T David, N Wadhera, C Jordan, P Chawla, J Behrendorff, K Kartikeya, A Madhwal, V Vinod
Pitch & Weather Report – The MA Chidambaram Stadium is the home ground of Chennai Super King and it is also called as the unbreachable fortress of CSK. The pitch is ideally trusted to support the spinners and stroke making becomes tougher as the innings progresses. Although, the small boundaries will provide results to even half of a well-connected short as well. The temperature is expected to hover between 30 to 38 degrees and as the evening progresses, batting could get easier with dew coming into play. Teams winning the toss could very well chose to bowl first.
Our Match Prediction – Mumbai is filled with match winners and even if one of the players has a great day, they are capable of making the match one-sided. One player who tops this list is Suryakumar Yadav, who is considered to be one of the best T20 players in the world. If mumbai can get of to a good start and then SKY can play deep, that would be an ideal circumstance. LSG, is a brilliant team and they thrive in low scoring games. LSG is mainly filled with small contributing players that can provide exceptional match changing contributions. Batting had actually weakened, after the injury of KL Rahul, is what many said. Although the experts say that, KL Rahul’s injury has been a blessing in disguise and his presence was only dampening the team, and the results have also shown the same. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that, this is a game for Lucknow to lose and the surface is something that should end the road for Mumbai. So, its going to be ‘Luknawi Kali Gajar ka halwa’ in the dinner.
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