Mumbai Indian will play the fourth eliminator match of IPL today

Mumbai Indian will play the fourth eliminator match of IPL today

5-time champions Mumbai Indians will face Lucknow Super Giants in the eliminator of the Indian Premier League (IPL) playoffs today. The match will be played at Chepauk Stadium in Chennai from 7:30 pm.

The team that wins today match will play Qualifier-2 against Gujarat Titans on May 26, while the journey of the losing team will end here in the tournament.

MI remained at number-4 in the points table

Mumbai Indians, captained by Rohit Sharma, made a great comeback after finishing at number 10 last year and this time qualified for the playoffs by staying at number four. The team got 8 wins and 6 losses in 14 matches of the league stage. The team finished in the top-4 with 16 points after winning 3 out of their last 4 matches.

Surya, Green MI top batters

After the weak bowling attack, the entire responsibility of handling Mumbai fell on the batsmen. Suryakumar Yadav, Rohit Sharma, Ishaan Kishan and Cameron Green did not play in the opening matches. Surya made a spectacular comeback in the later matches, scoring a century and 4 fifties to help the team win several matches.

Ishaan, Rohit along with Tilak Verma and Nehal Wadhera also scored runs in the middle matches. At the same time, Cameron Green scored a century in the last league match to give the team an important victory. 7 batters from the team scored more than 200 runs in the season.

Madhwal, Chawla taking wickets continuously

MI suffered a major setback ahead of the IPL due to injuries to fast bowlers like Jasprit Bumrah and Jofra Archer. Archer played 5 matches, but did not get in form due to injury. Leg spinner Piyush Chawla, fast bowlers Jason Behrendorff and Akash Madhwal handled the weakening bowling attack.