IPL 2023: Having scored a lot of runs for MI, now 2 veterans of LSG will increase the problems of former team in Eliminator!

New Delhi. In the Eliminator match of IPL-2023, Rohit Sharma’s Mumbai Indians will face Krunal Pandya’s Lucknow Super Giants VS Mumbai Indians. It is a ‘do or die’ match for both the teams, in such a situation, cricket lovers are sure to get a great game in this match of Chennai on Wednesday. While the losing team will be eliminated from the tournament, the winning team will have a chance to win the match against Gujarat Titans in Qualifier-2 on May 26 and take on Chennai Super Kings in the final. The former record of both the teams is not encouraging for Rohit Sharma’s team.

Lucknow Supergiants, who entered the IPL in the year 2022, have come in front of Mumbai Indians thrice so far and have won each time. In the last season, both these teams clashed twice and both of them got success. KL Rahul was the captain of LSG in IPL-2022. In IPL 2023, the match between these two teams took place on May 16 at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow, which was won by Lucknow Supergiants by five runs. In this match, Marcus Stoinis scored an unbeaten 89 and captain Krunal Pandya scored an unbeaten 49.

Krunal, Dickock have scored more than 1000 runs for MI
Talking about the Eliminator match, there are two players in the current LSG team who have not only been important members of Mumbai Indians in the previous season but have also performed strongly for the team. Both these players are Quinton de Kock and Krunal Pandya. In the Eliminator, he can become a threat to his former team MI. Dickock has scored 1329 runs (strike rate 131.32) at an average of 34.07 in 43 matches playing for MI from the year 2019 to 2021. This wicket-keeper batsman likes to play aggressively and can tear apart any attack.

‘Senior Pandya’ who played an important role for MI in bowling
Krunal Pandya has also been a special member of Mumbai Indians from 2016 to 2021. Due to Rahul’s injury in the current IPL season, he is also carrying out the responsibility of leadership. He has played 84 matches for MI, scoring 1143 runs at an average of 22.86 and a strike rate of 138.54. Krunal has also taken 51 wickets for Mumbai Indians.

Now the challenge of winning the Eliminator against MI
De Kock (143 runs in 4 matches), Nicholas Pooran (3568 runs in 14 matches), Marcus Stoinis (368 runs in 14 matches) and Kyle Mayers (361 runs in 12 matches) have been the mainstays of the current season for Lucknow Supergiants with the bat. Have done. Apart from scoring 180 runs in 14 matches, Captain Krunal Pandya has taken 9 wickets with an impressive economy of 7.23. For LSG, Ravi Bishnai (16), Mark Wood (11 wickets) and Yash Thakur (10 wickets) have taken more wickets than Krunal. There is also a challenge in front of him to perform brilliantly with the ball and bat while giving efficient leadership to the team in the Eliminator.