Mumbai Indians will face Royal Challengers Bangalore today in the Indian Premier League. The 25th match of the 17th season will start at 7.30 pm at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The toss of this competition will take place at 7 pm. This will be the fifth match of Mumbai and sixth match of Bangalore. MI have 2 points with 3 losses and just one win from 4. RCB has won only 1 out of the last 5 matches and lost the remaining 4 matches. Bengaluru also has two points. Due to good run rate, Mumbai Indians are at 8th and RCB at 9th in the points table.
If we talk about head to head here, MI has the upper hand. A total of 32 matches have been played between the two teams in IPL so far. Out of which Mumbai won 18 matches and Bangalore won 14 matches. At the same time, both the teams have faced each other 9 times at Wankhede Stadium. Of these, Mumbai has won 6 times and Bangalore 3 times.
The pitches at Wankhede generally prove to be more helpful to batsmen than bowlers. High scoring matches are seen here. Fast bowlers also get help on this wicket. So far 111 IPL matches have been played here. In 51 matches, the team batting in the first innings has won and in 60, the team chasing has won. The team's highest score here is 235, which was made by RCB against Mumbai in 2015.
Probable playing eleven of both the teams
Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya (captain), Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma, Romario Shepherd, Tim David, Mohammad Nabi, Piyush Chawla, Gerald Cootjee and Jasprit Bumrah.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf du Plessis (captain), Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Sourav Chauhan, Rhys Tapley, Mayank Dagar, Yash Dayal and Mohammed Siraj.