IPL 2020, MI vs KXIP LIVE: KL Rahul and Chris Gayle in action. (Twitter/IPL) IPL 2020, SRH vs KKR, MI vs KXIP Team Predicted Playing 11 Today Match LIVE Updates: In the second contest of the day, Mumbai Indians take on Kings XI Punjab. While Kings XI are languishing at the bottom of the table, Mumbai are enjoying a great campaign and are currently placed at the second position.
Chris Gayle, who played his first match in Kings XI’s previous encounter, would look to maintain the same momentum if he features in the playing XI tonight. He had scored a brilliant half-century in Kings XI’s previous encounter against Royal Challengers Bangalore.
A win for Mumbai Indians tonight will virtually seal them a spot in the play-offs while a loss for KXIP could send them out of contention.
Will KXIP keep their hopes alive, or will we witness MI continuing their dominance?
Kolkata Knight Riders: Rahul Tripathi, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik(w), Eoin Morgan(c), Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Shivam Mavi, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Varun Chakravarthy
Sunrisers Hyderabad: David Warner(c), Jonny Bairstow(w), Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson, Priyam Garg, Vijay Shankar, Abdul Samad, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, T Natarajan, Basil Thampi
Sunrisers Hyderabad have won the toss and have elected to bowl first.
Kolkata Knight Riders captain Eoin Morgan blamed top-order batting failure for his side’s comprehensive defeat to Mumbai Indians in their IPL match in Abu Dhabi and said they need to “turn things around” quickly.
"That’s putting it very politely. With the batting early on, we made a few mistakes. Mumbai Indians bowled really well and proved exactly why they have been one of the form teams in the tournament so far," Morgan had said after the defeat against MI.
"From here on, there is another area of improvement that we need to make strides on. We”re just past the half-way stage in the tournament. There is no better time to turn things around."
A week after being reported for suspected bowling action, the Indian Premier League’s Bowling Action Committee on Sunday cleared Kolkata Knight Riders all-rounder Sunil Narine from the warning list.
As per a statement released by IPL, the bowling committee monitored Narine’s action from two – back and side – angles. It found that the elbow-bend was well within the permissible limits.
“The Committee carefully reviewed all the deliveries of action footage sent of Mr Narine with the naked eye and has come to the conclusion that the elbow-bend appears to be within the range of permissible limits,” the statement read.
SRH: David Warner (C), Jonny Bairstow (wk), Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson, Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma, Rashid Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, T Natarajan
KKR: Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Rana, Eoin Morgan (C), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Lockie Ferguson/Chris Green, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy, Prasidh Krishna
Plenty of reshuffle in the points table as Delhi Capitals once again climb to the top.
Meanwhile, Shikhar Dhawan's match-winning ton against CSK see him get in the list of Top 5 contenders for the Orange Cap.
Anrich Nortje too enters the race for Purple Cap.
Check who stands where
Varun Chakravarthy currently is KKR's leading wicket-taker. He has so far bagged six wickets from seven games and has maintained a brilliant economy rate of 7.21.
A Tamil Nadu village fed on a diet of Rajini films has found a new hero in T Natarajan, the yorker king at this edition of the IPL.
The Sunrisers Hyderabad bowler has already landed 27 in the block-hole in seven games; Jasprit Bumrah, the most vaunted yorker expert, has only been able to muster 17 this edition.
A cause of concern for the Sunrisers is Rashid Khan’s form. After returning impressive figures like 3/14, 0/12, 3/12, the Afghan leg- spinner remained ineffective in the team’s last two losses.
Rahul Tewatia, Ambati Rayudu and Shane Watson smashed him for sixes. Skipper Warner will desperately hope that his star spinner finds his mojo back which is imperative for the team’s success.
The Sunrisers, who occupy the fifth spot on the points table with just three wins from eight outings, are also struggling. With the injuries ruling out pace spearhead Bhuvneshwar Kumar and all-rounder Mitchell Marsh, the Orange Army is facing a conundrum of whether to strengthen their batting or their bowling unit, a fact that skipper David Warner conceded.
The team heavily relies on its batting unit, mainly on the top four comprising Jonny Bairstow, Warner, Manish Pandey and Kane Williamson.
If the two-time champions, Kolkata Knight Riders, want to seal a play-off spot, their batsmen need to step up, shrug off their inconsistencies and win matches for the team.
After a massive 82-run loss to RCB, the KKR batsmen failed yet again against MI bowlers as they were reduced to 42 for 4 in the eighth over. Half of KKR batsmen were gone for 61 in the 11th over. An 87-run unbroken stand for the sixth wicket between Morgan (39 not out) and pacer Pat Cummins (53 not out) took them to 148 for 5. But MI needed just 16.5 overs to overhaul the target, losing two wickets in the process.
At the top, Shubhman Gill has failed to capitalise on his starts, while Rahul Tripathi has not gone past the 20-run mark after his brilliant 81 against the Chennai Super Kings.
Another double-header await us, with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) taking on Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the first clash of the day. KKR currently stand at the fourth position with four wins from eight matches. However, there has been a major reshuffle in the camp, with Dinesh Karthik handing over the captaincy to Eoin Morgan.
Who will win the match?