The Met division has issued a warmth wave in Mumbai this week. With a high-profile conflict that includes among the hardest hitters within the sport, Thursday night time is ready to be as sizzling because the day in south Mumbai.
Besides their red-hot batting models, Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad have a lot in widespread. Both outfits banked closely on retaining their core regardless of a full overhaul forward of the season. Both had a torrid run, up entrance. And each have registered morale-boosting outcomes of their earlier outing.
Sunrisers will hope for Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head — who rediscovered their mojo in Hyderabad towards Punjab Kings over the weekend — to proceed in the identical vein. Mumbai, then again, will hope for its underperforming top-order to alleviate the strain on the center and decrease order.
While the main focus will be on Jasprit Bumrah’s duel towards Travishek, SRH will be banking on one other left-hander to fireside — Ishan Kishan. And the pocket dynamo at No. 3 himself will be determined to make a case towards his former staff.
Ishan didn’t bat throughout Saturday’s nets, however he is aware of the situations at Wankhede greater than anybody else within the SRH camp. Having been let go by MI within the massive public sale, he will be determined to repeat his heroics within the season-opener.
But the left-handed trio on the high will clearly be cautious of Bumrah, a wounded tiger after the beating he took from Karun Nair in New Delhi. Bumrah was at his miserly finest on the Wankhede on his comeback sport final week, however MI will need for him to get again into a wicket-taking streak.
While captain Hardik Pandya will stay up for persevering with his exploits together with finisher Naman Dhir, the house followers will hope for Suryakumar Yadav to repeat his final 12 months’s hundred towards the identical opposition.
Published – April 16, 2025 07:20 pm IST
