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In the battle of heavyweights the mighty Mumbai Indians (MI) take on Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) as Faf Du Plessis won the toss and elected to field first in their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 clash at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore on Sunday (April 2).
“With this new rule teams are backing themselves to chase. At the end of the day you have to play good cricket to win. We know we have to bat first here. The pitch looks good, we just have to come out with positive intent. (Four overseas players) Tim David, Cameron Green, Jofra Archer and Jason Behrendorff. Last season was a disappointment for us but again, we know exactly where we went wrong so we'll try and correct those mistakes. We've got some new faces as well so hopefully those guys play freely and express themselves. (On playing his 200th T20 game as captain) Exciting, I'm really honored and grateful as well. It's been a long journey and it's something I will cherish. Look forward to playing many more games and hopefully we can achieve what we want to achieve,” MI skipper Rohit Sharma said after the toss.
“We are going to bowl first. There's a bit of weather around. There has been a bit of dew in the practice games too. Myself, Bracewell, Maxwell, and Topley. We have been so excited to get started to tonight. This is one of the great stadiums to play cricket in. That's a long way again. The first goal is to make the playoffs. We have to make sure we get off to a good start, 14 games to go in the tournament, and then we can talk about that,” RCB captain Du Plessis said after winning the toss.
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Head-to-Head
Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians have played each other 32 times, where Royal Challengers Bangalore have emerged victorious in 12 games and Mumbai Indians has won 19 games. In the last 5 matches played between RCB and MI, Royal Challengers Bangalore have won three matches and Mumbai Indians have won just one.
MI have not won their opening match of a season since 2013
Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan(w), Suryakumar Yadav, Cameron Green, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Hrithik Shokeen, Piyush Chawla, Jofra Archer, Arshad Khan.
Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Glenn Maxwell, Michael Bracewell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik(w), Karn Sharma, Harshal Patel, Akash Deep, Reece Topley, Mohammed Siraj.
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