🏏IPL 2025- Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Match-12, 7:30 PM - Page 6

Mustafa Moudi : "Hoping from Mr. MI-Specialist Venkatesh Iyer to Perform tonight. He had performed well in both their matches against MI last season !!" -- In fact, he averages more than 70 against this opposition, and has three fifties and a hundred (at this venue).

Sunitha : "The value that Mitchell Santner adds to this MI line up is indescribable. He is an anytime bowler, a gun fielder and a capable bat. Shrewd, tactical cricketing brain too. Unless injured , he would always figure in my starting 11." -- MI seem to share that sentiment as well, at least so far!

6:55pm KKR had to replace Phil Salt at the top, given how prolific he was in 2024. And while Quinton de Kock did not get off to the best of starts in KKR's opener, he stepped up in their run-chase against the Rajasthan Royals and could be key against his former franchise and at a venue where he has enjoyed batting in the past.

“Any update on Narine" -- Should be good to go tonight, Sanket.

4 of the last five matches between these two sides have been won by KKR. But at Wankhede, Mumbai hold a 9-2 win-loss record against their opponents

"Absolute belter," says former England captain Eoin Morgan about the pitch. "Absolutely rock-hard underneath, that means lovely pace and carry." One square boundary is shorter than the other as well.

Pitch Report: We have an absolute belter here. We have a beautiful covering of grass and underneath it's really hard, it means it's a batter's paradise. I'm looking forward to the spin twins, Varun Chakaravarthy and Sunil Narine. The better bowlers always find a way to defend on these kind of surfaces. But, the faster and faster you bowl, the farther you will travel. You are playing dead-centre of the ground and you have options to play with. The shortest boundary is 54m, it gets longer as you move across the ground. A bouncer is a good option to suprise batters and to not allow them to line you up, reckon Eoin Morgan and Nick Knight.

MI won the toss and will bowl first

Will Jacks and Ashwini playing

Mumbai Indians have won the toss and have opted to field

Hardik Pandya: We gonna bowl first, looks like a good track. Knowing Wankhede, dew may or may not come. There might be some early swing, it plays well so we thought chasing

Mumbai Indians have won the toss and have opted to field