Mumbai Indians will square off against Kolkata Knight Riders in the 51st match of the ongoing Indian Premier League 2024 at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on Friday. MI has dominated the head-to-head battle against KKR as they have won 23 out of the 32 matches they have played.
However, KKR is among the top two teams in the points table whereas MI is struggling in ninth place in the standings. KKR has come up with a collective effort and the results are palpable whereas MI is still looking for answers to some of their questions.
That MI has managed only three wins in 10 games is a testimony to their poor show. Furthermore, they have lacked a stomach for a fight in some of these losses.
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Venkatesh Iyer needs one more six to complete 50 sixes in the IPL.
Rinku Singh needs six more sixes to complete 50 sixes in the tournament.
Sunil Narine needs a dozen sixes to complete 100 sixes in the tournament and another 82 runs to reach the 1500-run mark in the IPL.
KKR all-rounder Andre Russell requires 59 runs to reach the 2500-run mark in the IPL.
Tim David needs five sixes to complete 50 maximums in the tournament.
MI captain Hardik Pandya needs a dozen fours to complete 200 boundaries in the IPL.
Ishan Kishan needs four boundaries to complete 250 fours in the tournament.
Suryakumar Yadav needs 75 runs to reach the 3500-run mark in the IPL.
MI Squad: Hardik Pandya (c), Rohit Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, N. Tilak Varma, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Luke Wood, Romario Shepherd, Gerald Coetzee, Shreyas Gopal, Nuwan Thushara, Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Mohammad Nabi, Shivalik Sharma, Luke Wood, Kwena Maphaka.
KKR Squad: Shreyas Iyer, Phil Salt, K.S. Bharat, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (AFG), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford (WI), Manish Pandey, Andre Russell (WI), Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine (WI), Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc (AUS), Dushmantha Chameera (SL), Sakib Hussain, Mujeeb Ur Rahman (AFG).
