Sunrisers gear up to unleash Mustafizur-Rashid combo
Sunrisers Hyderabad will be forced to rethink a settled combination with the return of Mustafizur Rahman, as they take on a charged-up Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede
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Mumbai, April 12, 2017
Start time 2000 local (1430 GMT)
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- In all T20 matches at the Wankhede since the start of 2016, the chasing team has lost only three out of 26 matches. The chasing team has won each of the last five IPL games at the venue.
- The two captains also have other reasons to chase: David Warner has seven fifties in nine innings while chasing since the start of IPL 2016, including his unbeaten 76 against Gujarat Lions in the last game. Rohit has five fifties in seven innings while chasing, during that same period.
- Lasith Malinga has dismissed Shikhar Dhawan four times in the IPL. Zaheer Khan and James Faulkner have also dismissed him four times.
- Since the start of IPL 2015, six of Rohit's eight dismissals against spinners have been against legspinners and left-arm spinners. He might face Rashid Khan and Bipul Sharma in tandem in Wednesday's game.
- Of the 88 wickets taken by Sunrisers' bowlers in 2016, 75 were shared across their regular choice of five strike bowlers - Mustafizur, Bhuvneshwar, Nehra, Barinder Sran and Moises Henriques.
- Four of Rashid Khan's five wickets this season have been bowled or lbw. Four of those five wickets have come in the first ten overs of the innings. He has conceded 31 runs off five overs in that phase of the innings.
- Mitchell McCleneghan's short-ball strategy fetched him six wickets last season at an economy rate of more than 10. This year he has gone for 41 runs off 19 short balls, getting no wickets in the bargain.
Varun Shetty is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo