(Cricket news) From the high-scoring encounters at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Indians now go to the lowest scoring venue. MI have chased down 200-plus total or scored 200 in their last three games but Tuesday they will play on a pitch that is much tougher to score on and it turns a lot. MI and LSG are third and fourth places and are only separated by a point, Mumbai batters will have to counter the LSG spinners will be key. MI might play Piyush Chawla, Kumar Kartikeya and an extra spinner.
Super Giants don’t have a great record at Lucknow as they have just won two of his five matches on their home ground. Their batting is coming together and the likes of Nicholas Pooran and Marcus Stoinis will want to go big against the inexperienced bowling line up of Mumbai. LSG are without their captain and Krunal Pandya will lead the team as this a must win encounter for both teams
LSG
Super Giants are going to use the same strategy of using Mishra and Ayush Badoni for each other depending on whether they bat or bowl first.
Lucknow SuperGiants (probable XII): 1 Quinton de Kock (wk), 2 Kyle Mayers, 3 Krunal Pandya (capt), 4 Marcus Stoinis, 5 Nicholas Pooran, 6 Ayush Badoni, 7 Deepak Hooda, 8 Ravi Bishnoi, 9 Avesh Khan, 10 Mohsin Khan, 11 K Gowtham, 12 Amit Mishra
MI
MI need to play Hrithik Shokeen to target LSG’s left-hand batters. They will have to use Tilak Varma or Suryakumar Yadav for one of the bowlers.
Mumbai Indians (probable XII): 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Ishan Kishan (wk), 3 Suryakumar Yadav, 4 Tilak Varma/Vishnu Vinod, 5 Cameron Green, 6 Nehal Wadhera, 7 Tim David, 8 Chris Jordan, 9 Piyush Chawla, 10 Jason Behrendorff, 11 Kumar Kartikeya, 12 Hrithik Shokeen
