MI vs LSG IPL 2024 Live Score at the Wankhede Stadium on Friday: Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants, who can’t make the playoffs anymore, will be seeking to finish with a win. The Mumbai Indians were out of contention for the playoffs long ago while Super Giant’s last four chances are very slim considering that they would have to win their last IPL game here by a huge margin. Three successive losses not only denied LSG crucial points but also severely damaged their net run rate. A 98-run loss to KKR was followed by a 10-wicket hammering by Sunrisers Hyderabad with a 19-run defeat to Delhi Capitals almost ending their playoff hopes after making the final-four in the previous edition.LSG is currently seventh in NRR -0.787, which won’t improve so much as Royal Challengers Bengaluru at No.6 has an NRR 0.387. Looking at RCB’s NRR of 0.387, it will take more than just slight improvement from LSG whose current one stands at -0.787.
Mumbai Indians, who have won the IPL five times already,were eliminated as soon as the playoffs started this year in what proved to be an awful debut season for new captain Hardik Pandya. Under no circumstances can MI have more than ten points after winning this match if they win now moving them from being consolatory bottom team. For Mumbai Indians, an off-season leadership transfer replacing Rohit Sharma with Pandya as captain saw fans’ social media posts reach fever pitch and seemed largely detrimental.
As a team, MI did not support their captain well. With Jasprit Bumrah failing collectively as batsmen did individually (20 wickets in 13 matches), his bowling performance could however not lift other bowlers together. The match would centre around players like T20 World Cup-bound players Pandya,Rohit Sharma, Bumrah, and Suryakumar Yadav who are key to India’s hopes of reclaiming the elusive World Cup. Rohit has had a poor run with the bat as his highest score for MI in last six games was 19, while Pandya too hasn’t really inspired confidence with his all-round role. Suryakumar however has been able to restore his faith scoring three fifties and a century in this IPL.
For LSG though, their lack of firepower and failure in key moments have played a crucial role in ensuring that while their skipper KL Rahul has been in good form with the bat,scoring three half-centuries among his 465 runs this season which averages 136.36. But all through, there still remains a debate over his batting rate as other batsmen faltered. As much as Nicholas Pooran (424 runs at 168.92) gave them impetus towards end of innings,Lucknow Super Giants’ bowling unit collective breakdown remained an area of concern.
Teams: Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya (c), Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav , Dewald Brevis, Jasprit Bumrah, Piyush Chawla, Gerald Coetzee, Tim David, Shreyas Gopal, Ishan Kishan (wk), Anshul Kamboj, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Kwena Maphaka, Mohammad Nabi, Shams Mulani, Naman Dhir,Shivalik Sharma,Romario Shepherd, Arjun Tendulkar, Nuwan Thushara, Tilak Varma , Harvik Desai (wk), Nehal Wadhera, Luke Wood.
Lucknow Super Giants: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul(c & wk), Deepak Hooda, Ayush Badoni, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran(wk) Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan, Shamar Joseph, Yash Thakur, Manimaran Siddharth, Prerak Mankad, Arshad Khan, Krishnappa Gowtham, Amit Mishra, Kyle Mayers, Ashton Turner, Matt Henry, Naveen-ul-Haq , Devdutt Padikkal, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Mayank Yadav, Arshin Kulkarni.
