IPL-2023 of the five-time winner Mumbai Indians has not been anything special so far. This team has won only one match in three matches. Now it is going to face a team which has become famous for its stormy game. Mumbai will host Kolkata Knight Riders at their home Wankhede Stadium. Fans will be watching this match and they will do their best to form their dream team. Talking about the points table, Mumbai's team is in ninth place with two points from three matches, losing two and winning one. Kolkata, captained by Nitish Rana, has won four matches with two defeats and two wins. Ranked fourth in points.
Who has the upper hand?
Mumbai is a five-time winner, while Kolkata has also won the title twice. If the head-to-head figures are seen between these two teams, then the Mumbai team has a one-sided advantage. So far, a total of 31 matches have been played between these two teams, out of which Mumbai has won 22 matches. At the same time, Kolkata has been successful in winning only nine matches.
Team match win
Mumbai Indians 22
Kolkata Knight Riders 9
Possible playing-11 of both the teams
Mumbai Indians - Rohit Sharma (Captain), Ishan Kishan (Wicketkeeper), Tilak Verma, Suryakumar Yadav, Hrithik Shokin, Cameron Green, Piyush Chawla, Arshad Khan, Nehal Wadhera, Jason Behrendorff, Riley Meredith.
#KnightLive Fam, we have arrived in Mumbai! #AmiKKR | #TATAIPL 2023 pic.twitter.com/wqLtjvb42g — KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) April 15, 2023
Kolkata Knight Riders - Nitish Rana (Captain), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Narayan Jagdishan, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakraborty, Suyash Sharma, Lockie Ferguson.
Pitch and weather
This will be the first match of this season at Wankhede which will be played in the afternoon so the pitch may behave a bit differently. In such a situation, this pitch can prove to be equal for both batsmen and bowlers. If we look at the last five matches, the average score here in the first innings is 160. But this match can be low scoring.