Pitch and weather: Expect another easy-paced, bash-through-the-line pitch at the Wankhede. Teams chasing have won three of the four games so far at the venue this season. The weather is expected to be fine for the duration of the match.
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians Highlights today, Tuesday 9-5-2023. 54th Match (N), Indian Premier League 2023, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.
“Generally we look to come here and chase,” says Faf. “With the extra batter thanks to the Impact Player rule, if we can post a big score, it’ll create a scoreboard pressure. It’s crunch time, lot of teams in the race for the third and fourth spot. Need to play good cricket, focusing on that.” Vijaykumar Vyshak comes in for Karn Sharma.
“Good pitch, chased down targets well, good opportunity to have runs in front of us,” says Rohit. “Typical Mumbai pitch. Has a bit of grass cover, there are some dry patches. Not sure how it’ll play. We’ve never looked at the table so much, focused on playing good cricket, rest will take care of itself.” Chris Jordan makes his MI debut.
Toss: Mumbai chose to field.
Royal Challengers Bangalore team: Faf, Kohli, Rawat, Maxwell, Lomror, DK, Hasaranga, Hazlewood, Siraj. Vyshak, Harshal
Mumbai Indians team: Rohit, Ishan, Green, Surya, David, Wadhera, Chawla, Jordan, Behrendorff, Kartikeya, Madhwal
Head to Head In T20’s: 33
Royal Challengers Bangalore Won: 14
Mumbai Indians Won: 19
Form guide
(last five completed Matches, most recent first)
Royal Challengers Bangalore LWLWW
Mumbai Indians LWWLL
Match Timings: 2:00 PM GMT | 7:30 PM Local
Umpires – Saiyed Khalid, Virender Sharma
TV Umpire – Nitin Menon
Match Referee – Reetinder Sodhi
Reserve Umpire – VM Dhokre
Match number – IPL 2023 – 54th Match
