Date: April 9th 2021, Friday
Venue: MA Chidambaram Stadium
Timing: 7.30 pm (Indian standard time)
- Captain:
- Mumbai Indians- Rohit Sharma
- Royal Challengers Bangalore– Virat Kohli
VIVO IPL 2021: Royal challengers Bangalore full squad
Batsman | Bowlers | Wicketkeepers | Allrounders |
Virat Kohli | Mohammed Siraj | AB de Villiers | Washington Sundar |
Devdutt Padikkal | Navdeep Saini | Josh Phillipe | Harshal Patel (trade) |
Pavan Deshpande | Yuzvendra Chahal | Mohammed Azharuddeen | Daniel Sams (trade) |
Sachin Baby | Pavan Deshpande | Kona Srikar Bharat | Kyle Jamieson |
Rajat Patidar | Shahbaz Ahmed | Glenn Maxwell | |
Adam Zampa | Dan Christian | ||
Kane Richardson | Suyash Prabhudesai |
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VIVO IPL 2021:Royal Challengers Bangalore predicting playing XI
1) Dan Christian
2) Virat Kohli (c)
3) Sachin Baby
4) AB de Villiers (wk)
5) Glenn Maxwell
6) Washington Sundar
7) Kyle Jamieson
8) Daniel Sams
9) Navdeep Saini
10) Mohammed Siraj
11) Yuzvendra Chahal.
IPL 2021: Mumbai Indians full squad
Batsmen | Bowlers | Wicketkeepers | Allrounders |
Rohit Sharma | Jasprit Bumrah | Quinton de Kock | Hardik Pandya |
Suryakumar Yadav | Jayant Yadav | Ishan Kishan | Krunal Pandya |
Chris Lynn | Rahul Chahar | Aditya Tare | Kieron Pollard |
Saurabh Tiwary | Trent Boult | Anukul Roy | |
Anmolpreet Singh | Dhawal Kulkarni | James Neesham | |
Mohsin Khan | Yudhvir Charak | ||
Nathan Coulter-Nile | Arjun Tendulkar | ||
Adam Milne | |||
Piyush Chawla | |||
Marco Jansen |
VIVO IPL 2021: Mumbai Indians expected playing XI
- Rohit Sharma
- Quinton de-kock
- Suryakumar Yadav
- Ishan Kishan
- Kieron Pollard
- Hardik Pandya
- Krunal Pandya
- Rahul Chahar
- Trent Boult
- Nathan coulter-nile
- Jasprit Bumrah
Head-to head MI VS RCB
Total of 29 matches have been played by Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore till date. Out of the 29 matches, MI has won 19 matches while RCB has managed to win 10 matches.
- Strength and weakness:
- Mumbai Indians:
Strength:
The strength of Mumbai Indians has been their core team retention. The franchise has always kept the core team which includes the likes of Rohit Sharma, Keiron Pollard, Jaspreet Bumrah, Hardik Pandya retained. This has led to team performing exceptionally good.
Weakness:
The main weakness of Mumbai Indian’s has been their inability to have a proper Indian replacement of Jaspreet Bumrah.
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- Royal challengers Bangalore
Strength:
The Royal Challengers Bangalore have one of the strongest batting unit for IPL 2021. The franchise already had Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Devdutt Padikkal, and Joshua Philippe in their squad. In the auction they have purchased Glen Maxwell which has added more firepower in their batting unit.
Weakness:
The most visible weakness for Royal Challengers Bangalore is their below power fast bowling unit. The likes of MD shiraz, Kyle Jamieson, Kane Richardson, Navdeep Saini have failed to provide RCB good pace bowling weapon.
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