Mumbai Indians win the crucial toss against Sunrisers Hyderabad and elected to bowl first in their second Indian Premier League 2024 game at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Wednesday, March 27.
Suryakumar Yadav misses out again as he remains at the NCA but Mumbai handed a first IPL cap to young South African pacer Kwena Maphaka who replaced injured Luke Wood in their playing eleven.
"We are going to bowl first," Hardik Pandya said. "Looks like a good track, we were solid in the last game. Didn't plan properly, that cost us the game. 13 games to go, we need to keep doing the right things. We are positive and looking forward to the challenge. Just trying to spend time with all the players. Getting to know them better. One change, Luke misses out due to niggle, Maphaka comes in."
Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma received his 200th IPL capt for Mumbai Indians from the former skipper Sachin Tendulkar. Rohit became the only third cricketer to play 200 or more IPL matches for a single team after Virat Kohli (239 games for RCB) and MS Dhoni (226 matches for CSK).
Sunrisers Hyderabad were also forced to replace injured T Natarajan with new signing Jaydev Unadkat and added in the star Australian batter Travis Head in the place of Marco Jansen who proved expensive against KKR in the last game.
The experienced Indian batter Rahul Tripathi also misses out on the squad completely for SRH. Once again, Umran Malik and Washington Sundar find a place on the impact substitutes list with Glenn Phillis, Nitish Reddy and Upendra Yadav.
"Looks like a good wicket," Cummins said. "Not too upset. It's a tough tournament, the crowd and conditions will help. A couple of changes. Head comes in for Jansen. Natarajan has a niggle, Unadkat comes in. We got a great squad, the 11 or 12 players playing tonight got to give their everything."
Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing XI: Travis Head, Mayank Agarwal, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, Jaydev Unadkat.
Mumbai Indians Playing XI: Ishan Kishan (wk), Rohit Sharma, Naman Dhir, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya (c), Tim David, Gerald Coetzee, Shams Mulani, Piyush Chawla, Jasprit Bumrah, Kwena Maphaka.
SRH impact players: Nitish Reddy, Washington Sundar, Umran Malik, Glenn Phillips, Upendra Yadav
MI impact players: Dewald Brevis, Romario Shepherd, Mohammad Nabi, Vishnu Vinod, Nehal Wadhera
