The Indian Premier League (IPL) will clash against the Mumbai Indians (MI) Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in 2025 today. The 20th match of the 18th season will start at 7:30 pm at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
Mumbai suffered a defeat in 3 of the first 4 matches of this season. While, Bengaluru won 2 out of 3 matches and lost 1 match. Bengaluru has not won against Mumbai at Wankhede for 10 years. The team last won here in 2015.
Match Details, 20th Match Mi vs RCB Date: 7 April Stadium: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Time: Toss – 7:00 pm, match start – 7:30 pm
MI Next in the Head to Head
Mi's hand is on the head to head match. So far, a total of 35 matches have been played between the two teams in the IPL. Mumbai won 21 and Bengaluru won 14 matches. At the same time, both teams have clashed against each other 10 times at Wankhede Stadium. Of these, Mi has won 7 times and RCB 3 times.
Suryakumar Yadav Mi No Top Scorer
Mumbai Indians batsman Suryakumar Yadav is the top scorer of the team. He has scored 171 runs in 4 matches. Surya scored a half -century of 67 off 43 balls against Lucknow Super Giants. While bowling is at the top of Hardik Pandya. Hardik has taken 8 wickets in 3 matches. He took 5 wickets in 4 overs against Lucknow. In the second place is the bowler Vignesh Puthur. He has taken 5 wickets in 3 matches.
Salt scored the highest runs for RCB
So far this season, 4 different players from Royal Challengers Bengaluru have scored half a century. At the same time, Better Phil Salt has scored the highest runs for the team. He has scored a total of 102 runs in 3 matches. Salt scored 56 against KKR in the first match. After that, Virat Kohli and Rajat Patidar have scored a total of 97-97 runs in 3 matches. Virat scored an unbeaten 59 against Kolkata in his first match.
Josh Hazelwood is at the top of the bowlers. He has taken a total of 6 wickets in 3 matches. He took 3 wickets for 21 runs against Chennai Super Kings. In the same match, bowler Yash Dayal also took 2 wickets in 3 overs.
Bumrah may once again return to the team From today's match, MI fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah may return this season. He joined the MI team on Sunday after returning from injury. The fast bowler was injured during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The Bumrah was also released from the Champions Trophy due to an injury to the lower waist. He has been under Rehab at the BCCI Center of Excellence (COE) in Bengaluru for the past few days.
Pitch report Wankhede's pitch proves to be helpful for batters. Fast bowlers get some help here. So far 117 IPL matches have been played here. The first batting team has won in 54 matches, while the chase team has won 63 matches.
Weather update The weather will be very hot in Mumbai on Monday. There will be a lot of suns here today. There is no hope of rain at all. Temperatures can range from 26 to 37 degrees Celsius. The wind speed will be 15 kilometers per hour.
Both teams' potential playing-12 (including impact player) Mumbai Indians (MI): Hardik Pandya (Captain), Ryan Ricken (wicketkeeper), Will Jacks, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma, Naman Dhir, Mitchell Center, Deepak Chahar, Trent Bolt, Ashwani Kumar, Vignesh Puthur and Rohit Sharma.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB): Rajat Patidar (Captain), Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdatta Palikal, Liam Livingston, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Kranal Pandya, Bhubaneswar Kumar, Josh Hazelwood, Yash Dayal and Rashik Salam.
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