IPL-2024: Lucknow Super Giants will take on Mumbai Indians in Lucknow: LSG opt to bowl
In IPL, Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) will take on Mumbai Indians (MI) at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. The match will start at 7.30 PM in this evening. Lucknow Super Giants have won the toss and have opted to field.
After chiding his bowlers for lacking clinicality against Rajasthan Royals, LSG’s assistant coach Lance Klusener took solace in an old cliche. “We’re the masters of our own destiny… for now,” he said with a chuckle. “If someone had said to us at the beginning that three-quarters into the competition you could still decide your own destiny, a lot of teams would take it.”
LSG have had a fairly good season thus far, but we’re at that stage of the tournament where destiny can slip away very quickly even from the tightest of grasps. Ask Rajasthan Royals of 2023. It’s a tightrope that LSG are currently walking steadily on, alongside several other top-four suitors. They will run into many plucky sides looking to shake them off their feet, starting with the pluckiest of all in Hardik Pandya’s team.
Mumbai Indians are dealing with a different cliche, as they head into every game in a must-win situation to lift them off the bottom pile. After 10 games last season, they had only 5 wins and yet reached the playoffs. The slight similarity in position (3 wins in 9 games) this year and the knowledge that they’re capable of beating the odds from here has kept the spirits high in their dressing room.
Even as the two teams are separated by 4 points and three spots on the table, a bad result on Tuesday has the capability to put both their campaigns in a tailspin to varying degrees.
Squads:
Lucknow Super Giants Squad: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul(w/c), Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Matt Henry, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Arshin Kulkarni, Krishnappa Gowtham, Manimaran Siddharth, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Mayank Yadav, Kyle Mayers, Ashton Turner, Prerak Mankad, Naveen-ul-Haq, Devdutt Padikkal, Arshad Khan, Shamar Joseph
Mumbai Indians Squad: Ishan Kishan(w), Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Nehal Wadhera, Tim David, Mohammad Nabi, Piyush Chawla, Luke Wood, Jasprit Bumrah, Nuwan Thushara, Naman Dhir, Shams Mulani, Dewald Brevis, Kumar Kartikeya, Shreyas Gopal, Harvik Desai, Gerald Coetzee, Romario Shepherd, Arjun Tendulkar, Shivalik Sharma, Anshul Kamboj, Akash Madhwal, Kwena Maphaka
