It’s very much a tale of two stories for these two going into match 38 of this year’s IPL.
For Mumbai, they will be searching for a win that will strengthen their grip on a top-two place and give them the best chance of reaching the final with two shots at it if they need them.
As for RCB, their season couldn’t have gone much worse so far and a defeat will effectively end their campaign if it hasn’t ended already.
Ahead of the match, we have the latest team news, start time and how you can follow all of the action from the UAE.
DATE, TIME, VENUE INFO
Date: May 1, 2017 (Monday)
Time: 14:30 GST, 14:00 local time (IST), 10:30 GMT
Venue: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
WHERE TO WATCH, LIVE STREAMING INFO
TV: UAE – OSN Sports Cricket HD, India – Sony Six, Sony Six HD (English), Sony Max, Sony Max HD 3 (Hindi), UK – Sky Sports
Online streaming: hotstar.com, Hotstar app (in India only)
LIVE: Sport360.com
TEAM NEWS, SQUADS, PREDICTED XIs
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MI SQUAD: Rohit Sharma, Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Hardik Pandya, Parthiv Patel, Harbhajan Singh, Ambati Rayudu, Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Gopal, Lendl Simmons, R Vinay Kumar, Mitchell McClenaghan, J Suchith, Siddhesh Lad, Jos Buttler, Nitish Rana, Tim Southee, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Deepak Punia, Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Johnson, K Gowtham, Karn Sharma, Saurabh Tiwary, Asela Gunaratne, Kulwant Khejroliya
Mumbai needed a Jasprit Bumrah Super Over to secure victory last time out, the India seamer producing an over of the highest quality when his side needed it the most.
The Mumbai side does look a settled unit and you imagine they won’t be changing a winning formula just yet as they look to secure a top-two place before handing out rests to their star men with Lasith Malinga and Mitchell Johnson the most likely to switch places.
Although, Johnson could also come in for Mitchell McClenaghan in a like-for-like change.
PREDICTED MI XI: Parthiv (wk), Buttler, Rana, Rohit, Pollard, Krunal, H Pandya, K Pandya, Harbhajan, Johnson, Bumrah, Malinga
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RCB SQUAD: Virat Kohli, Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, Shane Watson, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Mandeep Singh, Adam Milne, Sreenath Aravind, Kedar Jadhav, Stuart Binny, Samuel Badree, Travis Head, Sachin Baby, Iqbal Abdullah, Avesh Khan, Tabraiz Shamsi, Pawan Negi, Tymal Mills, Aniket Choudhary, Praveen Dubey, Billy Stanlake, Vishnu Vinod, Harpreet Singh
What can you say about RCB right now, other than their batting is truly woeful.
They just can’t get their batting order right and the constant switching of openers and overseas players is costing them dear right now.
Travis Head could be the latest to be dropped, with Chris Gayle and Shane Watson waiting in the wings.
PREDICTED RCB XI: Gayle, Kohli (c), de Villiers, Jadhav (wk), Harpreet, Baby, Negi, Badree, Aravind, Mills, Chahal
FORM
(Last five matches – with latest match first)
MI: W L W W W
RCB: L L NR L W
MATCH PREDICTION
Mumbai to win at a canter and end RCB’s campaign.
