5th Match Mumbai Indians v Bangalore Royal Challengers Preview
Mumbai, India - April 20, 2008
Sachin may play if he is decleared fit.
After getting embarrassing defeat Banglore Royal Challengers are now Challenging Mumbai Indian on their Home land. It will be interesting to see big partners in Indian Team to be against each other . ya me talking of Sachin and Rahul Draivd, one of them is Master Blaster and other is designated as the Wall will be looking to make Sunday Evening a memorable one.
With players like Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya in the team makes Mumbai Indian Top order the favorite top order in this IPL ,they both had a experience of 800 ODIs and piled up 28671 runs in total will be looking to delievery same fireworks as they do in ODIs.
Team Combinations:
Tendulkar's groin injury remains a concern and the final decision will be taken by the physio on Sunday morning. Mumbai Indians are looking worried as they have to wait for Dwayne Bravo, who arrives on Sunday. Fernando might partner Pollock with the new ball can be destructive. But Harbhajan might prove to be terminator for Bangalore with his experience in playing the restrictive hand in ODIs as well as Twenty20 games in the past.
Mumbai (likely) 1 Sachin Tendulkar (capt), 2 Sanath Jayasuriya, 3 Ajinkya Rahane, 4 Robin Uthappa, 5 Saurabh Tiwary, 6 Luke Ronchi (wk), 7 Shaun Pollock, 8 Abhishek Nayar, 9 Harbhajan Singh, 10 Dilhara Fernando, 11 Dhaval Kulkarni/Musaveer Khote
After defeat in their first Match,Bangalore team may prefer Shivnarine Chanderpaul to open instead of Dravid and Wasim Jaffer, Dravid confirmed Anil Kumble wouldn't be available for the match, as he is still recovering from his groin injury Rest the team to same as it was in First match
Bangalore (likely) 1 Rahul Dravid (capt), 2 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 3 Wasim Jaffer, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 Virat Kohli, 6 Cameron White, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 B Akhil, 10 Zaheer Khan, 11 Sunil Joshi

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