Match details
Delhi Capitals (DC; 6th place) vs Mumbai Indians (MI; 8th place)
Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi, 3.30pm IST (10am GMT)
Big Picture – Pant vs Bumrah
Form guide
DC WOWWWW (last five matches, most recent first)
MI LWLWW
Previous meeting in IPL 2024
Team news and impact player strategy
They brought in Rasikh Salam as an impact sub for Prithvi Shaw last game and are likely to go that way again. If the surface is conducive to spin, they could also get in Lalit Yadav for his offspin and batting. Nortje has been woefully out of form (economy 13.36) so DC could bring in Jhye Richardson in too.
Probable XII: 1 Prithvi Shaw2 Jake Fraser-McGurk, 3 Shai Hope, 4 Rishabh Pant (capt & wk), 5 Tristan Stubbs, 6 Abishek Porel, 7 Axar Patel, 8 Kuldeep Yadav, 9 Anrich Nortje/Jhye Richardson, 10 Mukesh Kumar, 11 Khaleel Ahmed , 12 Rasikh Salam
Mumbai Indians: Suryakumar Yadav is favourite to be MI’s Impact Player. They started with three overseas players in the previous game, with Nuwan Thushara coming on later. Mumbai could go with the same combination but could also be tempted to have Shepherd in given his performance in the reverse fixture.
Probable XII: 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Ishan Kishan (wk), 3 Suryakumar Yadav4 Tilak Verma, 5 Hardik Pandya (capt), 6 Tim David, 7 Nehal Wadhera, 8 Mohammad Nabi, 9 Gerald Coetzee, 10 Piyush Chawla, 11 Jasprit Bumrah, 12 Help Me/Romario Shepherd
In the spotlight – Kuldeep Yadav and Hardik Pandya
Pitch and conditions
Runs, runs and more runs have been the theme in the two games in Delhi. Teams have thrashed 57 sixes in two matches here, with scores of 200 breached three times in four innings and the lowest score standing at 199. The shorter square boundaries could bring the likes of Suryakumar, Tim David and Jake Fraser-McGurk into the picture with another high-scoring affair expected. This will, however, be the first day game in Delhi and that could mean some assistance for spinners.
The temperature will be around the 38C mark in the day.
Stats that matter
- Pant’s 243 runs in the middle overs is the highest among all batters in IPL 2024.
- Capitals have the second-worst economy rate in the powerplay this season – 10.46.
- Rohit Sharma has 1026 runs against DC in the IPL. He needs five more to go past Virat Kohli’s record for most runs against the Delhi franchise.
- Bumrah has removed Shaw twice in 16 balls in the IPL. Shaw only strikes at 72.7 against Bumrah, while averaging 8.00. Axar Patel has fallen to Bumrah three times in 45 balls and has a strike rate of 102.2 against him.
- Rohit has been dismissed by Axar three times in 10 IPL innings and strikes at only 91.3 against him. Khaleel Ahmed has meanwhile sent back Pandya three times in 26 balls in the tournament.
Quotes
“It was obvious in that last game against RR that wasn’t the standard that we set ourselves to. That’s a challenge to the playing group. We are responsible for setting that tone and for providing the intent in the field. We haven’t been effective enough at shutting teams down when they’ve gotten going. That’s a challenge moving forward and again if we are going to play well through in the back-end of this tournament then we have to fire through as bowlers, as batters and in the field. We need to play our best cricket.
MI’s Tim David says the team needs all three departments to come together in the second-half of the league
Ashish Pant is a sub-editor with ESPNcricinfo