IPL 2020 Match 5 - KOL vs MI Fantasy Preview

Historically, Mumbai Indians has always had a slow start to any Indian Premier League season and we saw that in their first game against CSK where they were rusty with the bat and they were slow in the field too. Now, they’ll have to be quick to regroup and get in rhythm because some of their best bowlers like Jasprit Bumrah seemed to be ineffective, which will be a worrying factor going in IPL 2020 Match 5.

Here they play Kolkata Knight Riders and the latter is set for their first match of the tournament, with a batting order that is one to beware of. The only previous game at this ground saw CSK chase 160+ in the final over and we can expect that to be the par score for the team who wishes to bat first today. Keep reading for our complete PlayerzPot (Use Code “READ1234“) fantasy preview of the KOL vs MI game…

Match info

Tournament: Indian Premier League 2020.
Date: 23rd September 2020, 7:30pm IST.
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Capacity: 20,000+
Series status: Match 5 of the round robin stage.

Recent form

KOL: –
MI: L

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Numbers

Last 4 matches in IPL 2020 – 3 won batting first.
In all head to head matches, Mumbai Indians leads 19-6.

Kolkata Knight Riders

Eoin Morgan, Tom Banton and Pat Cummins have all ended their quarantine today and they’re expected to be picked immediately in the line-up. The fourth overseas player will be Andre Russell and he’s proved that the kind of pitch doesn’t matter to him, considering he just hit 3 fifties in 9 games for Jamaica Tallawahs in the CPL 2020 on pitches that were super slow and where scores of below 100 were also defended.

Banton may lose his place to Sunil Narine, so I’d rather pick the experienced Eoin Morgan while we’re expecting the young and talented Shubman Gill to come out as opener, who is a future Indian national side player for sure. With the ball, we think Shivam Mavi is raring to go after missing out on IPL 2019 with an injury and his pace can surely trouble a batsman or two in this tournament in UAE.

Mumbai Indians

What we noticed in the first game is that Saurabh Tiwary played well which will keep him in the side ahead of Ishan Kishan but we don’t see Tiwary maintaining that place for too long, but he clearly lacks the required fitness needed for this tournament. With the bat, we have Suryakumar Yadav who failed in the last game but he’s easily been their most consistent batsman over the last 2-3 years in the IPL.

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We saw a little bit of fluency for Quinton de Kock as well. With 500+ runs in IPL 2019 and 33 in the last game, you should have him in your PlayerzPot (Use Code “READ1234“) fantasy team today. If Nathan Coulter-Nile is fit, he comes in for James Pattinson but someone we’re sure will do well with the ball is Rahul Chahar who bagged 1/36 in the first game and had a 5-fer in his last FC game prior to IPL 2020 as well.

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Kolkata Knight Riders Squad

Dinesh Karthik (C), Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana, Eoin Morgan, Sandeep Warrier, Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Kuldeep Yadav, Shivam Mavi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Rahul Tripathi, Siddhesh Lad, Nikhil Naik, Chris Green, Lockie Ferguson, Rinku Singh, Ali Khan, Tom Banton, Varun Chakravarthy, Manimaran Siddharth, Prasidh Krishna.

Mumbai Indians Squad

Rohit Sharma (C), Suryakumar Yadav, Saurabh Tiwary, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Mitchell McClenaghan, Krunal Pandya, James Pattinson, Rahul Chahar, Quinton de Kock, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah, Chris Lynn, Aditya Tare, Dhawal Kulkarni, Anmolpreet Singh, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Jayant Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Anukul Roy, Mohsin Khan, Sherfane Rutherford, Prince Balwant Rai, Digvijay Deshmukh.