Find out team news, TV and streaming information, odds, weather forecasts and much, much more ahead of the next game of the 2021 Indian Premier League season
Mumbai Indians meet Delhi Capitals in the 2021 Indian Premier League.
The game is scheduled for 2pm UAE (11am BST, 3.30pm IST) on Saturday, October 2, 2021.
The two sides will meet at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium in Sharjah.
After 11 matches, defending champions Mumbai Indians are in fifth place with 10 points and are only outside the playoff places on net run rate. However, their form is worrying, with the Indians losing three of their four matches in the UAE. Most recently, Rohit Sharma's team lost to RCB by 54 runs.
Delhi Capitals, by contrast, are in good form, winning four of their past five matches and sitting second in the table, two points behind Chennai Super Kings and six clear of fifth place. If they defeat Mumbai on Saturday, they will secure their spot in the knockout stages.
In the reverse fixture, Delhi won by six wickets.
Dafabet have Delhi Capitals at evens to win while Mumbai Indians are available at 4/5.
The bookies are backing Rohit Sharma to top-score for Mumbia, offering odds of 23/10 against the skipper while Shikhar Dhawan is available at 9/4 for Delhi Capitals.
Mumbai are the favourites to hit the most sixes in Sharjah, with odds of 4/5. Delhi Capitals are at 7/5.
Delhi Capitals will be looking to top-scorer Shikhar Dhawan to help them bounce back from their defeat against Kolkata Knight Riders. Dhawan, ranked 35th on the T20 Player Index, was in imperious form in India, scoring 380 runs. In the UAE, however, he has added just 74 runs since arriving in the UAE. Also keep an eye on Steve Smith, who returned to the XI against KKR and top-scored for Delhi, scoring 39 runs of 34 balls.
With the ball, Avesh Khan impressed against KKR, taking 3 for 13 from his three overs, while Axar Patel was also economical, finishing with figures of 0 for 13.
For Mumbai, Hardik Pandya made a timely return to form against Punjab Kings, scoring 40 not out from 30 balls to see his side to victory. The allrounder has struggled in the 2021 IPL, scoring just 55 runs in his previous seven innings, but his performance against Punjab suggests a return to his destructive best (his T20 strike rate is 142.19) can't be far away.
Jasprit Bumrah has been the pick of Mumbai's bowlers, taking a team-leading 16 wickets and bowling with an economy of 7.62.
Marcus Stoinis and Privthi Shaw are injury concerns for Delhi Capitals. Steve Smith, therefore, is likely to retain both his place in the starting XI and the opener's berth after his performance against KKR. The rest of team is also likely to be unchanged.
Simarjeet Singh has been added to the Mumbai Indians squad as an injury replacement for Arjun Tendulkar. Suryakumar Yadav could find his spot in the XI in danger after scoring just 16 runs in four innings in the UAE.
The two teams have played each other 29 times.
Mumbai Indians: 16
Delhi Capitals: 13
Intermittent cloud cover may provide some respite from the sun in the field but temperatures are expected to reach a scorching 36 degrees Celsius.
Follow the Met Office forecast here.
Yes, a limited number of fans are allowed to attend games during the IPL's UAE leg.
Mumbai Indians are the defending champions and have the edge in the head to head. However, Delhi Capitals have form, and that is more important. Delhi win.
IPL TEAM GUIDES
Sky Sports have the rights in the United Kingdom.
You can aso stream the tournament using the Disney+ Hotstar digital platform, though the matches are only available for VIP or Premium subscribers.
Star Sports have the television rights in India.
Streaming service YuppTV have acquired digital streaming rights in a host of markets, including Australia, continental Europe, Malaysia, Southeast Asia with the exception of Singapore, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives, Central Asia, and Central and South America.
In the USA, the games will be broadcast on Willow TV and the Willow TV website. Fox Sports have the broadcasting rights in Australia, while Supersport will televise the games in South Africa. In the Caribbean, Flow TV have the rights.
The following broadcasters owning the rights for their respective regions:
Bangladesh: Channel 9
Afghanistan: Lemar TV
Malaysia: Measat
MENA/UAE: BeIN Sport
Hong Kong: Now TV
Singapore: SingTel
New Zealand: Sky Sport
Papua New Guinea: EMTV
Delhi Capitals squad: Shreyas Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Axar Patel, Ishant Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Prithvi Shaw, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rishabh Pant, Shikhar Dhawan, Lalit Yadav, Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Anrich Nortje, Steve Smith, Umesh Yadav, Ripal Patel, Lukman Hussain Meriwala, M Siddharth, Tom Curran, Sam Billings, Pravin Dubey, Vishnu Vinod
Mumbai Indians squad: Rohit Sharma, Aditya Tare, Anmolpreet Singh, Anukul Roy, Dhawal Kulkarni, Hardik Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Jasprit Bumrah, Jayant Yadav, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Quinton de Kock, Rahul Chahar, Suryakumar Yadav, Chris Lynn, Mohsin Khan, Saurabh Tiwary, Trent Boult, Adam Milne, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Piyush Chawla, James Neeshan, Yudhvir Charak, Marco Jansen, Arjun Tendulkar, Simarjeet Singh
Delhi Capitals: Steve Smith, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Shimron Hetmyer, Lilat Yadav, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kagiso Rabada, Avesh Khan, Anrich Nortje
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma, Quinton de Kock, Suryakumar Yadav, Saurabh Tiwary, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rahul Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult
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