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THE TIMES OF INDIA | Could 17, 2024, 16:30:00 IST
MI vs LSG IPL 2024 Stay Rating: Out of reckoning from the IPL playoffs, Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Tremendous Giants will look to finish their marketing campaign on a successful observe once they conflict on the Wankhede Stadium right here on Friday.Whereas Mumbai Indians have been knocked out of the playoffs race way back, Lucknow Tremendous Big’s possibilities of making the last-four are extraordinarily bleak even when they win their final IPL sport right here by an enormous margin.Three consecutive defeats haven’t solely denied LSG essential factors, they’ve additionally battered their web run fee.A 98-run loss to KKR was adopted by a 10-wicket hammering by Sunrisers Hyderabad with a 19-run defeat to Delhi Capitals all however ending their possibilities of moving into the playoffs after making the final-four within the earlier version.The seventh-placed LSG’s NRR of -0.787 won’t enhance considerably for them to get again into rivalry, as Royal Challengers Bengaluru, at No. 6, are significantly better positioned with a NRR of 0.387.5-time IPL champions Mumbai Indians have been the primary staff to be knocked out of the race for the playoffs this 12 months as they endured a horror first season beneath new skipper Hardik Pandya.With solely 4 wins from 13 matches up to now, Mumbai Indians can at finest end with 10 factors in the event that they win on Friday, one thing that may probably assist them keep away from a last-place end.For Mumbai Indians, a pre-season change of management, with Pandya changing Rohit Sharma as captain, set off indignant reactions from followers, which appear to have marred their marketing campaign to a big extent.As a staff, MI didn’t get behind their captain. Whereas their batting failed collectively, Jasprit Bumrah’s particular person brilliance with the ball (20 wickets in 13 matches), couldn’t encourage the opposite bowlers to come back collectively.The main target of the match could be on the likes of T20 World Cup-bound gamers reminiscent of Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Bumrah and Suryakumar Yadav provided that they might be pivotal to India’s hopes of bringing again the elusive trophy.Rohit is enduring a horror run with the bat along with his finest being 19 within the final six outings for MI, whereas Pandya too has not been in a position to encourage confidence in his all-round function.Suryakumar, although, has regained confidence with a robust exhibiting within the IPL following three fifties and a century.For LSG, the dearth of firepower and failure to capitalise on key moments has led to their plight despite the fact that skipper KL Rahul has had a profitable run with the bat, scoring three half-centuries in his 465 runs this season at a median of 136.36.His strike fee, nonetheless, remained a subject of debate all through whilst the opposite batters failed to drag their weight.Whereas Nicholas Pooran (424 runs at 168.92) supplied the late impetus, the collective failure of LSG’s bowlers has additionally remained an space of concern.Groups (from):Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya (c), Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Dewald Brevis, Jasprit Bumrah, Piyush Chawla, Gerald Coetzee, Tim David, Shreyas Gopal, Ishan Kishan (wk), Anshul Kamboj, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Kwena Maphaka, Mohammad Nabi, Shams Mulani, Naman Dhir, Shivalik Sharma, Romario Shepherd, Arjun Tendulkar, Nuwan Thushara, Tilak Varma, Harvik Desai (wk), Nehal Wadhera, Luke Wooden.Lucknow Tremendous Giants: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul (c & wk), Deepak Hooda, Ayush Badoni, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan, Shamar Joseph, Yash Thakur, Manimaran Siddharth, Prerak Mankad, Arshad Khan, Krishnappa Gowtham, Amit Mishra, Kyle Mayers, Ashton Turner, Matt Henry, Naveen-ul-Haq, Devdutt Padikkal, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Mayank Yadav, Arshin Kulkarni.Learn Much less
