The two most successful teams in the history of the IPL – Mumbai Indians, five-time champions, and Chennai Super Kings, four-time winners – will loggerheads in the 12th match of the ongoing IPL 2023 at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on Saturday.
Mumbai had lost their opening clash of the season against RCB whereas CSK had finally got on the board after their win against LSG while playing at home. However, they suffered a loss in the maiden match of the season against reigning champions Gujarat Titans.
Here is the Stats Preview for Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings
MI skipper Rohit Sharma has amassed 5880 runs in the IPL in 228 matches at an average of 30.18. The flamboyant needs another 120 runs to become the third player after Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan to reach the 6000-run mark in the tournament.
Mumbai’s Jofra Archer has scalped 46 wickets in 36 IPL matches and thus the gun English paceman requires another four scalps to get to the milestone of 50 wickets in the IPL.
Tilak Varma, who scored a scintillating knock of 84 runs in the opening game against RCB, needs another 19 runs to complete 500 runs in the tournament.
Suryakumar Yadav, who has struggled a bit in the recent past, has gathered 2659 runs in 124 IPL matches at an average of 29.88. Thus, he needs another 341 runs to get to the milestone of 3000 runs.
Piyush Chawla has taken 157 wickets in his glorious IPL career and the leg-spinner needs another two scalps to overtake Ravichandran Ashwin’s tally.
Ishan Kishan has scored 1880 in 76 IPL matches and the left-hander will get to the landmark of 2000 runs if he scores another 120 runs.
Ruturaj Gaikwad has scored 1356 runs in the tournament in 38 IPL matches and he needs another 144 runs to get to the 1500-run mark.