Delhi Capitals (DC; 6th place) vs Mumbai Indians (MI; 8th place)
Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi, 3:30pm IST (10am GMT)

Big picture - Pant vs Bumrah

Form guide

Previous meeting in IPL 2024

Team news and impact player strategy

They brought in Rasikh Salam as an impact sub for Prithvi Shaw last game and are likely to go that way again. If the surface is conducive to spin, they could also get in Lalit Yadav for his offspin and batting. Nortje has been woefully out of form (economy 13.36) so DC could bring in Jhye Richardson in too.

Probable XII: 1 Prithvi Shaw, 2 Jake Fraser-McGurk, 3 Shai Hope, 4 Rishabh Pant (capt & wk), 5 Tristan Stubbs, 6 Abishek Porel, 7 Axar Patel, 8 Kuldeep Yadav, 9 Anrich Nortje/Jhye Richardson, 10 Mukesh Kumar, 11 Khaleel Ahmed, 12 Rasikh Salam

Mumbai Indians: Suryakumar Yadav is favourite to be MI's Impact Player. They started with three overseas players in the previous game, with Nuwan Thushara coming on later. Mumbai could go with the same combination but could also be tempted to have Shepherd given his performance in the reverse fixture.

Probable XII: 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Ishan Kishan (wk), 3 Suryakumar Yadav, 4 Tilak Varma, 5 Hardik Pandya (capt), 6 Tim David, 7 Nehal Wadhera, 8 Mohammad Nabi, 9 Gerald Coetzee, 10 Piyush Chawla, 11 Jasprit Bumrah, 12 Nuwan Thushara/Romario Shepherd

In the spotlight - Kuldeep Yadav and Hardik Pandya

Runs, runs and more runs have been the theme in the two games in Delhi. Teams have thrashed 57 sixes in two matches here, with scores of 200 breached three times in four innings and the lowest score standing at 199. The shorter square boundaries could bring the likes of Suryakumar, Tim David and Jake Fraser-McGurk into the picture with another high-scoring affair expected. This will, however, be the first day game in Delhi and that could mean some assistance for spinners. The temperature will be around the 38-degree mark in the day.

It was obvious in that last game against RR that wasn't the standard that we set ourselves to. That's a challenge to the playing group. We are responsible for setting that tone and for providing the intent in the field. We haven't been effective enough at shutting teams down when they've gotten going. That's a challenge moving forward and again if we are going to play well through in the back end of this tournament then we have to fire through as bowlers, as batters and in the field. We need to play our best cricket.
MI's Tim David says the team needs all three departments to come together in the second-half of the league