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Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Match 54 | MI vs RCB Live Score & Commentary,IPL 2023
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Preview: Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore has been one of the most anticipated games of the IPL 2023 at the Wankhede and no surprise there that it will be a full house on Tuesday night. In popularity charts the marquee contest would go down as the second-most high-profile match-up of the season in the city, the first, of course, is the one against Chennai Super Kings, which has already been played.
With both teams on even keel on the points table, the star-studded match gains extra significance and no doubt it could rise to the levels of intensity that is expected at the business-end of the competition. Both would be trying to wriggle out of the mid-table muddle.
On the eve of the game, there are some troubling questions for hosts Mumbai Indians with avoidable scrutiny on Rohit Sharma. The captain's continued poor run in the season was the immediate point of debate, leaving ephemerally aside the more important assignments - the World Test Championship and the World Cup - in the longer run.
Just 184 runs in 10 games and the 40th position among top scorers' list of the IPL 2023 are not worthy of the batter that he has been. More prominently, he has just two half centuries in 33 IPL games. Further dissection points to only two scores of over 50 runs in the last three IPL seasons.
The perception is that the extended poor form of the skipper may be affecting his leadership and not too long ago, an expert no less than Sunil Gavaskar called for him to take a break. Rohit has not exactly followed that advice but he changed his batting order from the top of the line-up and pushed himself down to No 3 in the previous game. But with very little success.
A skipper in a happy space puts the team too in a happy space and Rohit's form may be reflecting on the points table for MI - 10 points from 10 games and the sixth place. That is a precarious position for a team that has won the IPL five times. But the team said it is fully behind the off-colour skipper.
"Absolutely not (worried about his form). A legend that Rohit is, especially with Mumbai and everything that he has done in his career, we actually back him. He could come back into the form any time. So far, he has batted beautifully in a few games, showing really good tempo at the top, so we are absolutely backing him.," Cameron Green, who opened in place Rohit in the previous game said of the beleaguered skipper who would know that he needs to fire for the franchise on Tuesday night to win the vital game and move up in the points table.
Like MI, Royal Challengers Bangalore too are coming to the contest on the back of a defeat but they may, nevertheless, be having a slight edge over the home team. With key batsmen - Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis - among runs and Mahipal Lomror also joining the party, RCB could be in a happy space. They would be expecting more meaty contributions from Dinesh Karthik as well as Maxwell.
Their bowling has got the added firepower in the form of Josh Hazlewood, who combines well with Mohammed Siraj and Wanindu Hasaranga, who have done well for the franchise so far. But with the Impact Player rule, this has largely been a batsmen's season and the bowlers, more often than not, have been sent to cleaners. The script is unlikely to be different on Tuesday night.
Kedar Jadhav felt the same. "The impact player rule has made the teams and players braver and fearless. They have an extra batter as a cushion, so obviously they are expressing more and instead of 180 there are more totals above 200," the latest entrant to RCB said on the eve of the game.
Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Anuj Rawat, Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Dinesh Karthik(w), Kedar Jadhav, Wanindu Hasaranga, Karn Sharma, Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood, Harshal Patel, Suyash Prabhudessai, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Michael Bracewell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Deep, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, Himanshu Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Wayne Parnell, Sonu Yadav, Finn Allen, Siddarth Kaul
Mumbai Indians Squad: Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan(w), Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Tristan Stubbs, Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Jofra Archer, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Arshad Khan, Kumar Kartikeya, Ramandeep Singh, Dewald Brevis, Raghav Goyal, Vishnu Vinod, Riley Meredith, Shams Mulani, Arjun Tendulkar, Tilak Varma, Hrithik Shokeen, Duan Jansen, Sandeep Warrier, Jason Behrendorff
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