Match Details
Date: March 24, 2024
Time : 7:30 PM IST
Venue : Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad
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Preview
Gujarat Titans will be taking on Mumbai Indians in the fifth match of the IPL 2024 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. As the two-time finalists from the last two seasons, GT have retained most of their core group of players for the upcoming IPL, which will keep them in good stead in the tournament. On the other side, MI, who finished in the playoffs for the first time in three seasons last year, will be looking to rise to the very top of the mountain once again, in the IPL 2024.
Pitch Report
The pitches at the Narendra Modi Stadium generally provide help to the fast bowlers before easing out to become very good for batting with the spin bowlers coming into play in the recent IPL years. The average first innings score at this venue in the tournament is 172, which could prove to be quite a substantial total to chase down for either Gujarat Titans and Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Team Analysis
Gujarat Titans
Shubman Gill, the newly appointed Gujarat Titans captain, will have the responsibility to fill in the big shoes of the former captain Hardik Pandya, who is coincidentally going to be the opposite counterpart in his first assignment of the IPL 2024. Apart from Shubman Gill, some of the top performers for GT in the IPL last year were David Miller, Rashid Khan, and Mohit Sharma in particular. They will also welcome the fit and healthy Kane Williamson to their squad after he missed out on playing the last season of the IPL due to injury.
Gujarat Titans squad:
Shubman Gill (c), David Miller, Matthew Wade, Wriddhiman Saha, Kane Williamson, Abhinav Manohar, B. Sai Sudharsan, Darshan Nalkande, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Noor Ahmad, Sai Kishore, Rashid Khan, Joshua Little, Mohit Sharma, Azmatullah Omarzai, Umesh Yadav, Shahrukh Khan, Sushant Mishra, Kartik Tyagi, Manav Suthar, Spencer Johnson, Sandeep Warrier, BR Sharath. Players injured/withdrawn: Mohammed Shami, Robin Minz.
Mumbai Indians
After replacing Rohit Sharma in the captaincy role at Mumbai Indians, Hardik Pandya will be expected to deliver consistency in results achieved at his old franchise Gujarat Titans, whom he took to two IPL finals in the last two seasons. In the last season of the tournament, MI reached the playoffs stage mainly on the back of impressive batting performances from the likes of Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, and Tim David. The return of Jasprit Bumrah, one of the greatest fast bowlers in modern day cricket, is also going to give Mumbai Indians the much needed boost in the bowling department.
Mumbai Indians squads:
Hardik Pandya (c), Rohit Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, N. Tilak Varma, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Luke Wood, Romario Shepherd, Gerald Coetzee, Shreyas Gopal, Nuwan Thushara, Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Mohammad Nabi, Shivalik Sharma, Kwena Maphaka. Players injured/withdrawn: Jason Behrendorff, Dilshan Madushanka.
Match Prediction
Conclusion
The better balance in the squad for Mumbai Indians, in comparison to the last season, will give them a very good chance to upstage Gujarat Titans in their IPL 2024 opener.
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