Tottering Royal Challengers seek Wankhede spark
Royal Challengers Bangalore have only a minuscule chance of making the playoffs ahead of their trip to the Wankhede Stadium to take on Mumbai Indians
The Preview by Karthik Krishnaswamy
30-Apr-2017
Match facts
Mumbai Indians v Royal Challengers Bangalore
Mumbai, April 30, 2017
Start time 1600 local (1030 GMT)
Mumbai, April 30, 2017
Start time 1600 local (1030 GMT)
Head-to-head
This season: A 93-run sixth-wicket partnership between Kieron Pollard and Krunal Pandya rescued Mumbai from 33 for 5, eventually leading them to a four-wicket win after a Samuel Badree hat-trick had energised Royal Challengers' defence of 142.
Overall: The two teams have met 22 times, with Mumbai winning 14 and losing eight. Recent history is also on Mumbai's side - they have won five of their last six matches against Royal Challengers.
The likely XIs
What have Royal Challengers missed most this season?
5 votesAB de Villiers' form
A firing middle order
KL Rahul's consistency
Depth in their end-overs bowling
Mumbai Indians: 1 Parthiv Patel (wk), 2 Jos Buttler, 3 Nitish Rana, 4 Rohit Sharma (capt), 5 Krunal Pandya, 6 Kieron Pollard, 7 Hardik Pandya, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Mitchell McClenaghan, 10 Lasith Malinga, 11 Jasprit Bumrah
Royal Challengers Bangalore: 1 Travis Head/Chris Gayle, 2 Virat Kohli, 3 AB de Villiers, 4 Kedar Jadhav (wk), 5 Sachin Baby/Mandeep Singh, 6 Stuart Binny, 7 Pawan Negi, 8 Samuel Badree, 9 S Aravind, 10 Yuzvendra Chahal, 11 Tymal Mills/Adam Milne
Strategy punt
Krunal Pandya has dismissed AB de Villiers three times in as many innings, conceding only 12 runs off 21 balls in that time. Krunal usually comes on as soon as de Villiers is at the crease - Royal Challengers could try and combat this strategy by opening the batting with de Villiers. Krunal has never opened the bowling in his IPL career so far.
Stats that matter
Karthik Krishnaswamy is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo