#2 Well-balanced team
One of the reasons for Mumbai’s tremendous performance in IPL 2017 is their strong and well-balanced team. They have plenty of options in every department and hence the failure of few players hasn’t affected their overall team performance.
In the batting department, Mumbai has technically solid batsmen in the form of Parthiv Patel, Rohit Sharma, and Ambati Rayadu while also having world class hitters like Kieron Pollard and Lendl Simmons in their ranks. Add a young Nitish Rana to the line-up and you have a batting line-up that can pose headaches to almost anyone.
The bowling department meanwhile is spearheaded by Mitchell McClenaghan with JaspritBumrah’s death bowling has become a talk of the town. Lasith Malinga is going through a lean patch but he still has the skills to wreck any batting order. Harbhajan Singh and Karn Sharma bring diversity with their spin and make it easy for Rohit and Co. to have a specific strategy against key batsmen from opposite team.
Additionally, Mumbai is benefited heavily due to the all-round performance by the Pandya brothers. Krunal Pandya has the second best economy rate (6.57) among all bowlers from Mumbai while Hardik Pandya can effectively chip in with few quiet overs.
Krunal has batted in only nine innings so far but he has played some match-winning cameos. Hardik, on the other hand, has played the role of a finisher to perfection. His strike rate is the best among Mumbai batsmen and his big hitting ability can take the game away at any point – something that KKR have already witnessed in their meeting at the Wankhede earlier this year.
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