El Clasico of IPL, Rohit Vs Dhoni, High Scoring Encounter at Wankhede?, Pitch Report, Playing 11.

The 12th Match of the Indian Premier League(IPL) 2023, will be played between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on 8th April. So it's El Clasico of the IPL. The two most successful teams will face each other in the 12th match of the season. Talking about Mumbai Indians the Five time champions are known as slow starters and in their opening match against RCB they lost the match one-sided by 8 wickets. On batting first Mumbai Indians in the first 9 overs were at 48/4 but because of an outstanding performance by their rising star Tilak Verma who stood at one end and scored brilliant unbeaten knock of 84 runs helped Mumbai Indians to reach a reasonable total of 171 runs but this was not enough and also Mumbai Indians Bowlers looking looking ineffective as till 14th over they were wicketless and hence lost the match. On the other hand the four time champions Chennai Super Kings are coming after winning their previous match by 12 runs as on batting first scored 217 runs on board, Rituraj Gaikwad is in good form as he scored 57 runs along with him Devon Conway too scored 47 runs and later on Rayudu and M S Dhoni provided the finishing touch to CSK. In defending the target this time their Bowlers were able to do as Dhoni used his mastercard in the form of Moeen Ali who's 4 wickets were the game changing as CSK won the match by 12 runs.

MATCH DETAILS:

Mumbai Indians Vs Chennai Super Kings :

Date: 8th April 2023, Saturday 

Time: 07:30 PM (IST)

Venue: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.

Capacity: 33,000

Live Streaming Platform: Star Sports and Jio Cinema (for online streaming).

PITCH REPORT :

In Wankhede Stadium the toss plays a very important role as dew comes in the second innings as the ground is near the marine drive. The dimensions are also very short due to which what score is sufficient is difficult to know. So as there will be the first game to be played of this season a high scoring encounter on cards.

POSSIBLE PLAYING 11:

MUMBAI INDIANS:

Rohit Sharma(C), Ishan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Tim David,  Cameron Green, Jofra Archer, Hrithik Shokeen, Piyush Chawla, Arshad Khan, Jason Behrendorff.

CHENNAI SUPER KINGS:

MS Dhoni(C)&(wk), Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Moeen Ali, Ben Stokes, Shivam Dube, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja, M Santner, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Deepak Chahar.

HEAD TO HEAD RECORD :

Total Matches Played: 36

Mumbai Indians: 21

Chennai Super Kings: 15

Abandoned: 0

No Result : 0