Hardik Pandya, on his return to Mumbai Indians as captain, won the toss and elected to bowl first against Gujarat Titans in the fifth match of IPL 2024. During this period, Hardik Pandya has given a chance to four players to make their IPL debut under his captaincy. Hardik Pandya is playing against his old team Gujarat Titans in this match. GT team won the title in the year 2022 under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya. Now in the very first match of the season against GT, Hardik Pandya has taken a big decision regarding the playing 11.
He got a chance for MI
While Gerald Coetzee and Luke Wood made their IPL debuts for Mumbai Indians, Suryakumar Yadav failed to recover from his injury and is not part of the squad for their first game. Haryana’s 24-year-old batsman Naman Dheer and Mumbai state team’s in-form spinner Shams Mulani received IPL caps for the first time. Hardik said at the time of the toss, it feels good to be back in the Mumbai team. My birthplace is Gujarat, got a lot of success in Gujarat, very grateful to the crowd and this state. My cricketing birth took place in Mumbai, it’s really good to be back.
Debut in Gujarat also
For Gujarat Titans, new captain Shubman Gill also gave a chance to two new players to debut. Gill decided to debut Azmatullah Umarzai and Spencer Johnson. Shubman said that he is feeling very excited, to be able to captain in a stadium where I have so many memories. This has been one of our strengths, the support we have received from the fans over the last few seasons has been tremendous for us. I was here a week before the game, played a practice match, and had a few practice sessions. Everyone is looking good, everyone is looking fit. We have two players making their debut in IPL in Spencer and Umarzai.
Playing XI of Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill (captain), Wriddhiman Saha (wicketkeeper), Sai Sudarshan, Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Umesh Yadav, Sai Kishore, Spencer Johnson.
Playing XI of Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wk), Tilak Verma, Naman Dheer, Hardik Pandya (c), Tim David, Shams Mulani, Piyush Chawla, Gerald Coetzee, Jasprit Bumrah, Luke Wood.
Gujarat Titans Substitutes: BR Sharath, Mohit Sharma, Manav Suthar, Abhinav Manohar, Noor Ahmed
Mumbai Indians Substitute: Dewald Brewis, Romario Shepherd, Vishnu Vinod, Nehal Wadhera, Mohammad Nabi
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