🏏IPL 2025 - Match 45: MI vs LSG on 27 April 2025 @ 3:30 PM IST🏏- Page 3

LSG fans will be hoping to see Mayank Yadav in action after a couple of matches where he has been on the bench but not involved. This might finally be the game for Mayank, on a pitch that is expected to support his supreme pace and bounce. If he can dial it in quickly on his competitive return, the Mayank vs Bumrah duel will be one for all Indian fans to savour — and a mini-battle that might also provide a window into what the future of Indian fast-bowling could look like, if this duo can keep themselves fit for an extended period.

There is so much batting talent on offer in this match that fans could very well be staring at an aggregate score well over 400 today, but the Wankhede has been playing some tricks throughout this tournament. Will the pitch throw a spanner into the works on that front, or will it finally provide the dynamite hitting that has come to be expected of it over the years?

5th vs 6th in the table

MI and LSG head into this contest with identical 5-4 records, but have used very different routes to get there. Nevertheless, this match provides an option to head to 12 points, and enter the top 4. As the playoff race really heats up across a very stacked top half of this table, this result's significance cannot be downplayed.

Eyes on Rishabh Pant

The scanners will be placed on Rishabh Pant this evening after the LSG skipper has failed to light up the tournament thus far with the bat. In a glaring surprise in the previous outing at the Ekana, Pant was shielded from a top-order appearance, walking in at No. 7 only to score a two-ball duck against the Delhi Capitals. That the big hits have regressed in his white-ball game is not a secret anymore. But how is India's star wicket-keeper attempting to counter the concerns at the earliest?

Key Points

• LSG has been one of the most stable sides batting inside the powerplay so far with only 9 dismissals for a 54 averageand 150 strike-rate.
• Mitchell Marsh has only been dismissed twice inside the powerplay in 8 matches he has played this season - 196 runs, 2 dismissals, 161.98 strike-rate.
• Aiden Markram has been LSG’s best batter in recent games - 229 runs in five innings at a 45.80 average and 160.14 strike-rate.
• Nicholas Pooran scored 75 in only 29 balls in his last IPL game at Wankhede Stadium last year.
• Pooran averages only 11.5 against left-arm pacers this season.
• Pooran vs Jasprit Bumrah in IPL - 13 runs, 2 dismissals, 72.2 strike-rate.
  

• Suryakumar Yadav has surged back to form and currently leads the charts for MI with 373 runs, 62.17 average and 166.52 strike-rate.
• Jasprit Bumrah has the lowest economy rate in the death overs since making his comeback mid-way through the campaign - 7.75 economy rate, 4 wickets.
• Naman Dhir holds a strong record against LSG in his early career: 2 matches, 108 runs, one 50, 207.69 strike-rate.
• Suryakumar Yadav has scored the most runs in the middle-overs phase so far this season - 323 runs, 5 dismissals, 64.60 average and 178.45 strike-rate.

Milestones in sight

• Rohit Sharma needs 5 sixes to complete 300 sixes in IPL
• Suryakumar Yadav needs 1 six to complete 150 sixes in IPL
• Suryakumar Yadav needs 33 runs to complete 4000 runs in IPL

MI won the toss and decided to bowl first

Originally posted by: SlatePencil

MI won the toss and decided to bowl first

Cheers..

Thanks for the tag and thread, Raji

All the best to both teams!

SRH team went to Maldives for a break.

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