Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad will fight for their third win of this Indian Premier League season when they face each other in Sharjah on Sunday. Both teams have lost two out of their four matches so far but will take confidence from the victories they had in their previous game.

The Sunrisers are in a spot of bother at the moment as doubts remain over the participation of the premier fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who walked off with an injury in the last game. The right-arm pacer was unable to complete his final over in the game against Chennai Super Kings on Friday and gingerly left the field with the help of the team physio.

MI in IPL 2020

Match Date Venue Result
MI vs CSK 19 Sep Abu Dhabi MI lost by 5 wickets
KKR vs MI 23 Sep Abu Dhabi MI won by 49 runs
RCB vs MI 28 Sep Dubai MI lost in Super Over 
KXIP vs MI 1 Oct Abu Dhabi MI won by 48 runs

SRH in IPL 2020

Match Date Venue Result
SRH vs RCB 21 Sep Dubai SRH lost by 10 runs
KKR vs SRH 26 Sep Abu Dhabi SRH lost by 7 wickets
DC vs SRH 29 Sep Abu Dhabi SRH won by 15 runs
CSK vs SRH 2 Oct Dubai SRH won by 7 runs

In case Kumar misses out, Mumbai will fancy their chances more at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, where the boundaries are much shorter than in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

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In the three matches played at the venue so far, 200 has been breached on every single occasion. A total 1,303 runs have been scored at an average of 217 per innings.

The defending champions, having humbled a strong Kings XI Punjab in their last game, are unlikely to make any changes to the winning combination.

Skipper Rohit Sharma is in fine form and has scored 170 runs from four games this season. While the form of Quinton De Kock is worrisome, Suryakumar Yadav would be keen to convert his starts.

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The biggest positive for the four-time champions is that their middle-order has finally delivered with Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya and Kieron Pollard launching into opposition attacks with their big-hitting prowess in the last couple of matches.

Mumbai’s bowlers are in form too. Apart from the pacers, spinners Rahul Chahar and Krunal Pandya have played their parts well and will be keen to contain the SRH batters.

Hyderabad will also take a lot of confidence from their seven-run win over CSK, where their youngsters delivered after the big guns failed to fire.

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The team management would be hoping that skipper David Warner, Jonny Bairstow, Kane Williamson and Manish Pandey are among the runs again. If the seniors fire, that will reduce the pressure on young guns Abhishek Sharma, Priyam Garg and Abdul Samad.

But if Kumar misses out, that would mean more pressure on T Natarajan, Khaleel Ahmed and star spinner Rashid Khan. It remains to be seen who among Basil Thampi, Sandeep Sharma or Siddharth Kaul is given a go.

Head-to-head

Mat MI won SRH won Tied MI win% SRH win%
MI vs SRH 17 7 7 1 (MI won) 50% 50

Squads

MI squad

Batsmen Bowlers All-rounders Wicketkeepers
Rohit Sharma Dhawal Kulkarni Hardik Pandya Ishan Kishan
Sherfane Rutherford Jasprit Bumrah Jayant Yadav Quinton de Kock
Suryakumar Yadav James Pattinson Kieron Pollard Aditya Tare
Anmolpreet Singh Mitchell McClenaghan Krunal Pandya
Chris Lynn Rahul Chahar Anukul Roy
Saurabh Tiwary Trent Boult Digvijay Deshmukh
Nathan Coulter-Nile Prince Balwant Rai Singh
Mohsin Khan

SRH squad

Batsmen Bowlers All-rounders Wicketkeepers
Kane Williamson Rashid Khan Vijay Shankar Jonny Bairstow
David Warner Bhuvneshwar Kumar Mohammad Nabi Wriddhiman Saha
Manish Pandey Khaleel Ahmed Abhishek Sharma Shreevats Goswami
Priyam Garg Sandeep Sharma Abdul Samad
Virat Singh Siddarth Kaul Fabian Allen
Billy Stanlake Sandeep Bavanaka
T Natarajan Sanjay Yadav
Shahbaz Nadeem
Basil Thampi

Match starts at 1930 IST and will be broadcast on the Star Sports network and Disney+Hotstar

(With PTI inputs)