IPL 2023: Lucknow Super Giants Lock Horns With Mumbai Indians In Eliminator, Check Predicted XI & Pitch Report
Locknow Super Giants (LSG) will host five-time champions Mumbai Indians (MI) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 eliminator at the M Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Wednesday evening.
It is a two-day match for both teams as the losing team will be eliminated from the tournament. The winner will advance to Qualifier 2 where they will take on Gujarat Titans (GT). Gujarat lost Qualifier-1 to Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on Tuesday night.
LSG will be led by all-rounder Krunal Pandya as regular captain KL Rahul has been ruled out due to injury. The team has no other injury problems.
Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma-led MI are struggling with bowling issues and they have leaked runs many times. Although they have lost pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah, the loss of Jofra Archer's services has crippled the team. However, their batting is on a roll. They have chased down 200-plus totals four times thanks to their weak bowling line-up.
360 degree swashbuckling batsman Suryakumar Jacob is in top form. Explosive all-rounder Cameron Greene is coming into this epic game on the back of his maiden ton in the IPL.
M Chidambaram Stadium has helped the spinners a lot So it could be a battle between LSG's bowling vs MI's batting
Pitch report
With every passing match the surface at MA Chidambaram Stadium is getting slower The spinners are expected to get a lot of purchase from the pitch Batsmen may have trouble clearing the ground Around 170 would be a good score on the pitch The team winning the toss will elect to bat first.
Head to head
Matches: 3
Lucknow Super Giants won: 3
Mumbai Indians won: 0
No results: 0
XI Forecast
Lucknow Super Giants: Quinton de Kock (wk), Karan Sharma, Krunal Pandya (c), Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Puran, Ayush Badoni, Prerak Mankad, K Gotham, Naveen-ul-Haq, Ravi Bishnu, Mohsin Khan.
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (C), Ishan Kishan (W), Suryakumar Jacob, Nehal Wadera, Tim David, Tilak Verma, Cameron Green, Chris Jordan, Hrithik Shokin/Kumar Kartikeya/Arjun Tendulkar, Piyush Chawla, Jason Behrendorff.
