Daredevils eye turnaround against rampaging Mumbai
Back-to-back defeats have stalled Daredevils after a good start, but to put that behind, they need to find a way past a Mumbai side that is reveling in its best-ever IPL start
The Preview by Akshay Gopalakrishnan
21-Apr-2017
Match facts
Mumbai Indians v Delhi Daredevils
Mumbai, April 22, 2017
Start time 2000 local (1430 GMT)
Mumbai, April 22, 2017
Start time 2000 local (1430 GMT)
Head to head
Last season: Both teams won their respective home games - Daredevils by ten runs at the Feroz Shah Kotla and Mumbai by a thumping 80-run margin in Visakhapatnam, their second home.
Overall: It's a stalemate with both teams having met 18 times and won nine each.
In the news
All of Mumbai's wins have come while chasing, including their last game, where they made short work of Kings XI Punjab's 198.
Ambati Rayudu has returned to training after suffering a groin injury in Mumbai's opening game, but is not yet available for selection. With Nitish Rana among the top run-scorers currently, it may be some time before Rayudu finds a spot again.
Should Mumbai persist with Lasith Malinga?
0 votesYes, his experience will be handy
No, he is struggling and there is enough bench strength
The likely XIs
Mumbai Indians: 1 Parthiv Patel (wk), 2 Jos Buttler, 3 Nitish Rana, 4 Rohit Sharma (capt), 5 Hardik Pandya, 6 Kieron Pollard, 7 Krunal Pandya, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Mitchell McClenaghan, 10 Lasith Malinga/Tim Southee, 11 Jasprit Bumrah
Delhi Daredevils: 1 Sanju Samson, 2 Sam Billings, 3 Karun Nair, 4 Rishabh Pant (wk), 5 Shreyas Iyer, 6 Angelo Mathews/Corey Anderson, 7 Chris Morris, 8 Jayant Yadav/Shahbaz Nadeem, 9 Pat Cummins, 10 Zaheer Khan (capt), 11 Amit Mishra
Strategy punt
Stats that matter
Akshay Gopalakrishnan is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo