Punjab Kings vs Mumbai Indians: This season of the Indian Premier League is going to be a mixed bag for Punjab Kings and Mumbai Indians. The teams are currently in the middle of the table and are neither out of the race for the playoffs yet nor are they making a strong claim for it. Meanwhile, today the match between Punjab Kings and Mumbai Indians will be played at Maharaj Yadvendra Singh Cricket Stadium in Mohali. Even before this, a bad news has come out for Punjab. It has been learned that Punjab captain Shikhar Dhawan may miss today’s match also.
Shikhar Dhawan is injured, will not play against Mumbai today
Captain Shikhar Dhawan had missed the last match for Punjab Kings. It was expected that he would recover before the next match, but now the team’s spin bowling coach Sunil Joshi has made it clear that Shikhar Dhawan will not play against Mumbai today. Sunil Joshi said that Shikhar Dhawan is currently undergoing rehabilitation after a shoulder injury. Sam Curran captained Punjab Kings in the absence of Dhawan in the match against Rajasthan Royals. Dhawan will not be able to play in the match against Mumbai Indians on Thursday. Joshi said that the medical team will give an update on Shikhar. Right now he is in rehabilitation.
Shikhar has scored the most runs for Punjab this season
The problem for the Punjab team is that not only is their team not performing well, Shikhar Dhawan, the batsman who scored the most runs for the team in this year’s season, is out. Under the captaincy of Sam Curran, Punjab team lost its last match to Rajasthan by three wickets. Shikhar Dhawan has played only 5 matches for his team so far and has scored 152 runs in it. After this, the second highest run scorer is Shashank Singh, who has scored 146 runs in 6 matches. This means that no other batsman of the team has been able to play such an innings which is match winning. This is increasing difficulties for Team A.
Whoever wins in Punjab and Mumbai will reach six points.
At present, Punjab team has won only two out of 6 matches and is at eighth position in the points table. Mumbai team is at ninth position in the points table with four points after winning two out of six matches. Whichever team wins today, will go ahead with 6 points. Whereas for the losing team, the chances of going into the top 4 will not be lost, but it will definitely become difficult. In such a situation, Punjab and Mumbai will try to win today’s match at any cost.
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