MI vs KKR - when and where to watch, full squad details, venue, most likely playing XIs
Mumbai Indians come into the match after getting a big win against Delhi Capitals. Although they are facing injury concerns especially with Jofra Archer, they are trying to improve themselves as a team with each passing game. As for Kolkata Knight Riders they have won two matches out of four till now and have a balanced unit with the likes of Andre Russell and Sunil Narine holding the key.
Check all the details given below regarding the match:-
IPL Match 2023
Teams: Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Captains:
Nitish Rana is going to lead Kolkata Knight Riders
Rohit Sharma will lead Mumbai Indians
When: April 16th, 2023
Match is going to start at 3:30 p.m. IST
Venue: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Head to head of these two teams from IPL: Both the teams have met each other on 31 occasions where Mumbai Indians has won 22 matches whereas Kolkata Knight Riders have won 9 matches.
Likely playing XI
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (c), Ishan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Cameron Green, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Shams Mulani/Hrithik Shokeen, Piyush Chawla, Arshad Khan and Jofra Archer/Jason Behrendorff.
On Bench: T Stubbs, Tim David, K Kartikeya, Ramandeep Singh, S Sandeep Warrier, AS Tendulkar, Vishnu Vinod, Dewald Brevis, Raghav Goyal, Jofra Archer, SZ Mulani, D Jansen, Akash Mandwaal, JA Richardson
Kolkata Knight Riders: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), N Jagadeesan, Nitish Rana, Venky Iyer, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy and Lockie Ferguson.
On Bench: Mandeep Singh, Tim Southee, AS Roy, VR Iyer, D Wiese, Vaibhav Arora, S Iyer, Liton Das, Shakib Al Hasan, H Rana, K Khejroliya, JJ Roy
New rules
Impact player: Both captains of KKR and MI will have a list of four substitute and one of them can be called in as the impact player to bat and bowl
Name playing XI after the toss: Both captains will be allowed to pick playing 11 they have pre decided depending upon the outcome of the toss.
Pitch report
The pitch of the wankhede stadium saw Chennai Super Kings chasing down the target of 175 runs very easily. Pitch will provide enough help with the new ball with two wickets falling in the powerplay phase. Spinners are going to play key role as they took 7 wickets out of 10 in the last game. As this is going to be a day game both of the teams are going to bat first after winning the toss.
Most probable best performers in MI vs KKR
Probable best batsman: Nitish Rana
Probable best bowler: Varun Chakravarthy
Weather forecast for today in Mumbai
Maximum temperature: 34°C
Minimum temperature: 27°C
Wind speed: 11km/h
Chances of rain: 0%
Capacity of stadium: 33,108
Prediction to win: Kolkata Knight Riders is most likely to win the match
Where to Watch
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