Mumbai Indians, after losing five of their six matches, have dropped Mustafizur Rahman and Kieron Pollard – two of their overseas players who featured in all of their matches until now.
Bangladesh fast-bowler Mutafizur took 7 wickets in six matches with his best bowling figures being 3/24. Except for MI’s match against Royal Challengers Bangalore where he was hit for 55 runs while remaining wicket-less, the pacer had a fairly good campaign although that didn’t help the team win their matches but one. Pollard on the other hand, took only 63 runs in six matches.
Ben Cutting and Jean-Paul Duminy have replaced the aforementioned players ahead of their clash against Chennai Super Kings. MI had lost their season-opener against CSK by one wicket at Mumbai.
Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Suryakumar Yadav, Evin Lewis, Ishan Kishan(w), Rohit Sharma(c), Jean-Paul Duminy, Krunal Pandya, Hardik Pandya, Ben Cutting, Mitchell McClenaghan, Mayank Markande, Jasprit Bumrah
Chennai Super Kings (Playing XI): Shane Watson, Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina, Sam Billings, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w/c), Dwayne Bravo, Harbhajan Singh, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Imran Tahir