Mumbai Indians: In the 5th match of IPL season 17, Mumbai Indians have to play their first match with Gujarat Titans, which will be played at Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium, Gujarat’s home ground. With this match, both the teams will start their journey in IPL 2024. In this match, Mumbai Indians can enter with a completely new playing 11, in which Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav. It is difficult for (Suryakumar Yadav) and Arjun Tendulkar (Arjun Tendulkar) to get a chance. Let us know how Mumbai’s playing 11 could be in the match between Mumbai Indians and Gujarat Titans.
Mumbai Indians will play its first match with Gujarat
Actually, IPL 2024 is going to start from March 22, in the first match of which Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore are going to face each other. Mumbai Indians will be seen playing their first match in the 5th match of this season.
In the upcoming IPL season, MI has to play its first match with Gujarat Titans, which will be played on March 24 at Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium, Gujarat’s home ground. In this match, Mumbai Indians can go with a different playing 11 under the leadership of Hardik Pandya.
MI may go with a different playing 11
Let us tell you that Hardik Pandya is going to take the responsibility of leading Mumbai Indians in IPL 2024, who had taken Gujarat Titans to the finals in the last two consecutive seasons. During this period, Gujarat has also become champion once. In such a situation, there are great chances that Hardik Pandya can continuously tamper with the playing 11 to win the title for Mumbai. If we look at the current circumstances, Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav and Arjun Tendulkar may be out of the first match.
Rohit, Surya and Arjun may be out of playing 11
It is known that Rohit Sharma may miss the first match due to stiff back injury and Suryakumar Yadav due to ankle injury. Whereas Arjun Tendulkar is given very less opportunity anyway. Also, this time with Hardik Pandya in the team as a fast bowling all-rounder, it is almost impossible for him to get a chance.
Last season, Arjun had scored 13 runs and taken 3 wickets in 4 matches. Whereas 332 runs were scored from Rohit’s bat and 605 runs were scored from Suryakumar Yadav’s bat. In such a situation, the absence of both of them due to injury can put the team in trouble. In place of these players, other players can be seen playing in the playing 11. Vishnu Vinod in place of Hitman, Tilak Verma in place of Surya and Hardik in place of Arjun.
Mumbai Indians players who are not happy with Hardik being made captain
One of the most successful franchises in IPL cricket, Mumbai Indians have snatched the captaincy of the franchise from Rohit Sharma before the start of the IPL 2024 season and handed it to Hardik Pandya. After making Hardik Pandya the captain, some players in the team, including cricket supporters of Mumbai Indians, are unhappy with Hardik Pandya becoming the captain of the franchise. In such a situation, we are going to tell you about such players who are not happy with Hardik Pandya becoming the captain .
Jasprit Bumrah, Surya Kumar Yadav, Akash Madhwal, Piyush Chawla these are some of them players, who is not looking happy with team managemet after the decision to make Hardik Pandya caption.
Probable playing 11 of Mumbai Indians
Vishnu Vinod, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Verma, Nehal Wadhera, Hardik Pandya, Team David, Mohammad Nabi, Piyush Chawla, Jasprit Bumrah, Gerald Coetzee and Nuwan Thushara.