Big picture: Mumbai chasing the final playoff spot
Mumbai Indians slipped in their previous game in Lucknow and face a crucial game against Sunrisers Hyderabad to make a late sprint to the playoffs. The good news for them is that they are back home for their last league game and the Wankhede have been a fortress for them this season.
The big question
Will the Mumbai Indians make the playoffs?
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Recent results
Mumbai Indians: LWWLW (Last five matches, most recent first)
Sunrises Hyderabad: LLLWL
Team news: Tilak Varma still doubtful
Impact player strategy
Mumbai Indians
Vishnu Vinod is likely to start if Mumbai bats first, or act as an Impact Player to replace Akash Madhwal if they bowl first. However, if Varma is fit, he could play instead of Vinod.
Mumbai Indians (probably XII) 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Ishan Kishan (wk), 3 Suryakumar Yadav, 4 Nehal Wadhera, 5 Tim David, 6 Vishnu Vinod7 Cameron Green, 8 Chris Jordan, 9 Hrithik Shokeen/Kumar Kartikeya, 10 Piyush Chawla, 11 Jason Behrendorff, 12 Akash Madwal
Sunrises Hyderabad
Sunrisers can stay with the same team that played against RCB. T Natarajan will start and be substituted for a batter if they bowl first, and vice versa. However, it remains to be seen if Umran Malik returns; he could replace Nitish Kumar Reddy.
Sunrisers Hyderabad (probably XII) 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Rahul Tripathi, 3 Aiden Markram (capt), 4 Heinrich Klaasen (wk), 5 Harry Brook, 6 Glenn Phillips, 7 Abdul Samad8 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 9 Kartik Tyagi, 10 Mayank Dagar, 11 Nitish Kumar Reddy/Umran Malik, 12T Natarajan
Statistics that matter
Quotes
“It’s just another game for us. Yes, from the outside it looks like it’s a big game and we have to wait for other results and so on, but we know what we’ve done here in Wankhede in the last four to five games . So we know our strengths. So we’ll support that and focus on that.”
Suryakumar Yadav heads into the final home game of the Mumbai Indians with confidence.
Abhimanyu Bose is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo