MI vs RCB Playing 11, IPL 2024: Playing XI prediction, head-to-head stats, key players, pitch report and weather update

Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru IPL 2024 Playing 11: Mumbai Indians will take on Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday. The former registered their first win in the previous game against Delhi Capitals while the latter is in a bit of a rut early in the tournament losing three games in a row.

Mumbai under Hardik Pandya is yet to find the balance right between the type of overseas all-rounders they would like to play and Bengaluru under Faf du Plessis are suffering with the same problems as the previous years which is the batting heavily dependent on Virat Kohli and bowling unit not hitting their straps.

Playing XI predictions for the MI vs RCB IPL 2024 match

MI predicted XI vs RCB: Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya (c), Tim David, Mohammad Nabi, Romario Shepherd, Piyush Chawla, Gerald Coetzee, Jasprit Bumrah

Impact Sub: Akash Madhwal

MI player to watch out for: The skipper Hardik himself would be the most interesting player to watch out for. Though he would be relieved that he has a box ticked after registering the first win the jury is still out on him as Hardik-The player is yet to show his prowess. He has had a couple of cameos and hot and cold bowling performances but nothing significant.

RCB predicted XI vs MI: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Saurav Chauhan, Reece Topley, Mayank Dagar, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal

Impact Sub: Mahipal Lomror

RCB player to watch out for: Similar to Hardik Faf du Plessis has had a pretty average tournament with respect to his standards. In five games so far the South African has scored 109 runs at an average of 21.80. If RCB wants to get back to winning way they need their skipper to get back to his best and performing again.

MI vs RCB head-to-head IPL stats

MI have won 18 matches out of 32 matches between the two teams. RCB have won 14 games.

MI win-loss record at the Wankhede Stadium

Matches played: 80, MI won: 49, MI lost: 30 MI Tied: 1

MI vs RCB IPL Head-to-Head Record in Wankhede

Matches played: 10, MI wins: 7, RCB wins: 3

Squads:

Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik(w), Saurav Chauhan, Reece Topley, Mayank Dagar, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal, Himanshu Sharma, Suyash Prabhudessai, Mahipal Lomror, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Swapnil Singh, Karn Sharma, Tom Curran, Lockie Ferguson, Alzarri Joseph, Will Jacks, Anuj Rawat, Manoj Bhandage, Akash Deep, Rajan Kumar

Mumbai Indians Squad: Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan(w), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Mohammad Nabi, Piyush Chawla, Gerald Coetzee, Jasprit Bumrah, Akash Madhwal, Kwena Maphaka, Naman Dhir, Nehal Wadhera, Shams Mulani, Shreyas Gopal, Luke Wood, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Kumar Kartikeya, Shivalik Sharma, Anshul Kamboj, Nuwan Thushara, Dewald Brevis

MI vs RCB pitch report

The pitch at Wankhede is tradionally good for batting. Though there might be a bit of swing with the new ball once the ball gets a lit bit older there are no better conditons to bat on in the country. Also because of the small dimensions and high-scoring nature of the ground teams might prefer to chase.

MI vs RCB weather report

The temperature will be around 34 in the day time and will drop down to 25 in the night time as per Accuweather. However, there will be humidty of about 65-75 per cent which might bring dew into play and there is no chance of rainfall.

RR vs GT livestreaming details

The RR vs GT IPL 2024 match will be streamed on the JioCinema App and telecast on the Star Sports Network on April 11, Thursday from 7:30 PM IST.

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