Defending champions Mumbai Indians for the first time in their newly designated home of Visakhapatnam will play host to Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 37th game of the tournament. Both teams won their last games and would look to continue on the winning run as the tournament comes to a stage where the hunt to finish in top 4 becomes fierce. Sunrisers are placed at number 4 in the points table while Mumbai are just behind at number 5.
The Match will be live from 16:00 IST, 22:30 GMT. Watch live streaming of RCB v/s RPS on www.starsports.com and www.hotstar.com. Mobile users can watch live streaming of RCB v/s RPS on the Hotstar App. You can also watch the live telecast of RCB v/s RPS on Sony ESPN, Sony ESPN HD, Sony Six, Sony Six HD, Sony Max. The match will be played at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam.
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Mumbai after a sluggish start have picked up on the winning ways. They lost 4 games out of the first 6. But after that they have enjoyed a 3 games winning streak. In the last 2 seasons as well, they bounced back after poor starts to finish in the top 4. This time as well they would love to repeat the same.
Rohit Sharma is in a tremendous form. He is 5th in the list of top run getters in the tournament. He has mastered the art of chasing in T20s. In the 5 matches chasing, he has turned up with the scores of 84*, 62, 65, 68* and 85*. Overall he has scored 383 runs in 9 innings at an average of 63.83. Mumbai will bank on him heavily in the quest for their title defence.
Other batsmen like Parthiv Patel, Ambati Rayudu, Jos Butler, Krunal Pandya and Kieron Pollard all have contributed in the team’s success at important stages. They have a good mix of innings builders and power hitters to chase down just about any score.
Mitchell McClenaghan proudly wore the purple cap for the most duration of the tournament. Andre Russell recently overtook him as he has a better economy rate for same number of wickets. Mitchell will get it back with one more wicket. Jasprit Bumrah is the other bowler for MI in the top 10 wicket takers. With the experience of Harbhajan Singh and Tim Southee, the team possesses a formidable bowling line up.
SRH have been in a superb bowling form. The trio of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashish Nehra and Mustafizur Rehman makes it extremely difficult for the batsmen to strike freely. Kumar and Nehra start beautifully with the swinging ball and Mustafizur with his bag of tricks back them up perfectly.
Bhuvneshwar has picked up 12 wickets in 8 games and Mustafizur has 10 in 8 games. Both are in the top 10 wicket takers list. Barinder Sran also has done decently. With 4 quality fast bowlers in the side, they have not felt the need to play a spinner too much.
David Warner faced a rare failure in the last game. But Shikhar Dhawan stuck to the crease and helped the side chase a small but tough total. Rest of the batsmen now need to come good at this stage to back the openers and target to finish in the top 4.
It will be an interesting clash between the SRH bowlers and MI batsmen. The captains need to read the conditions well as this will be the first game to be played at Visakhapatnam.
The match will be broadcasted live on SuperSport in Africa, Geo Super in Pakistan, Maasranga in Bangladesh, Set Max and Sony Six in Bhutan, ESPN in the US, and Sky Sports in the UK. The live streaming of the match can also be watched on CricketGateway.com in Australia.
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