New Delhi. Hello and welcome to Newsroompost’s IPL live blog. In the second match of the playoffs, the eliminator match is being played between Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants respectively at number three and four positions. In this match, there will be a big challenge for Lucknow Super Giants on the ground of Chennai. Rohit Sharma has won the toss and elected to bat first for Mumbai Indians. Chennai’s pitch is a high-scoring pitch, so Mumbai’s openers will be specially monitored, along with this, Suryakumar Yadav will also have a special role in this match.
🚨 Toss Update 🚨
Mumbai Indians win the toss & elect to bat first against Lucknow Super Giants.
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Earlier, in the first playoff match of IPL 2023, Chennai Super Kings entered the final for the 10th time by defeating Gujarat Titans, while the second playoff match is to be played today between 5-time IPL champions Mumbai and newly fledged Lucknow Supergiants. The IPL season is currently at its last stage. When the first eliminator match of this cricket’s Mahakumbh will be played between Lucknow and Mumbai today, everyone’s eyes will be on Mumbai’s dashing batsman Suryakumar Yadav. Please tell that this match will be played at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. This match is very important for both the teams because whichever team loses this match will be out of IPL. At the same time, the winning team will go directly to Qualifier-2 where it will have to compete with Gujarat, who lost in the first playoff. Let us now give you information about the pitch report of this ground in Chennai and the Dream / Fantasy 11 team-
pitch batting friendly
For information, let us tell you that the pitch at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium is considered batting friendly. Due to this, this pitch is no less than a heaven for the batsmen. Most of the high scoring matches take place here. But along with this the spinners also bowl well here. Lots of runs are scored on this pitch. In such a situation, there is every possibility that after winning the toss, the team decides to bowl first.
You can be rich if you choose this Dream 11 team
Wicket-keepers: Quinton de Kock, Ishan Kishan Batsmen: Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David All-rounders: Marcus Stoinis, Krunal Pandya, Cameron Green Bowlers: Ravi Bishnoi, Jason Behrendorff, Piyush Chawla
Possible playing 11 of Mumbai and Lucknow
MI Playing 11: Rohit Sharma (c), Ishan Kishan (wk), Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Chris Jordan, Piyush Chawla, Jason Behrendorff, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal
LSG Playing 11: Quinton de Kock (wk), Karan Sharma, Prerak Mankad, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Krunal Pandya (c), Ayush Badoni, Krishnappa Gautam, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mohsin Khan
