Mumbai Indians (MI) captain Hardik Pandya has missed out on the team's second clash against Delhi Capitals, which is taking place at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. In Hardik's absence, India's T20I skipper Suryakumar Yadav is leading the side. Coming at the toss, Suryakumar Yadav revealed that Hardik is not fine, so he is missing the DC clash.
Apart from that, MI made three changes: Deepak Chahar replaced Hardik, Corbin Bosch replaced Trent Boult, and Mitchell Santner replaced Allah Ghazanfar.
Notably, both MI and DC are coming off wins in their tournament openers against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), respectively.
Coming back to the DC vs MI clash, DC skipper Axar Patel won the toss and opted to bowl and the hosts are featuring with the same side.
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Captains at toss
Suryakumar Yadav (MI captain): Hardik Pandya is not well, doesn't look good, so he was not fit for today's game. So just getting into his shoes today. (On the win against KKR) If you win the first game after 13-14 years, there's a lot of positivity in the camp, and we're very happy, but completely different venue here from Wankhede. We have to take good responsibility and have a good game here. (On the surface) Looks good, The toss was irrelevant. We wanted to bat first, they wanted to bowl first, but yeah, very happy to bat first. Looks good one. We've done here really well when we've batted first and defended. Quite a few changes. Deepak Chahar comes in for Hardik. Corbin Bosch comes in for Boulty, that's a tactical change. Boulty had a good game in the last game at Wankhede. And Mitch Santner comes in for Allah Ghazanfar.
Axar Patel (DC captain): I choose to bowl first. First match at home, I want to see how the wicket is behaving. It looks a bit dry, a bit hard. We chased well in the last match. To chase down the target from 26/ 4 in the powerplay, it gives a lot of confidence to the group. Even the top-order know that there are batters in the lower order who can step up if they fail. Playing a home game is always beneficial. Our DC supporters will cheer for us. Same team.
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DC vs MI playing XIs
Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): KL Rahul(w), Pathum Nissanka, Nitish Rana, Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Vipraj Nigam, Lungi Ngidi, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar
Delhi Capitals Impact subs: Ashutosh Sharma, Auqib Nabi Dar, Sameer Rizvi, Karun Nair
Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton(w), Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Naman Dhir, Sherfane Rutherford, Mitchell Santner, Corbin Bosch, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah
Mumbai Indians Impact subs: Mayank Markande, Robin Minz, Raj Bawa, Trent Boult, Ashwani Kumar.