In the 65th match of IPL 2022, Mumbai Indians won the toss and opted to bowl against SunRisers Hyderabad at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on Tuesday.

At 14 points, SRH need luck to make it to the playoffs. They need RCB to lose on Thursday against Gujarat Titans and KKR to lose and Delhi Capitals to lose real big. Mumbai Indians are on an experimentation spree. They are already trying out their entire squad and it is almost as if they’re just making mental notes for the next season. But they’re coming off a massive win, and in contrast to SRH’s desperation to reverse their five-match losing streak, have nothing to lose.

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What did the captains say?

Rohit Sharma: We’re going to field first. Just want to try out some things, and it works when we have a score in front of us. We have two changes: the spinners from the last game go out, and Mayank Markande and Sanjay Yadav come in. We want to look at certain players with an eye on next year. We want to have a look at them before making a decision for next year. It is important that the core group plays. We want to keep certain aspects of our Mumbai team. We have one more game after this, and we can try a few more guys in that game.

Kane Williamson: We were going to have a bat first. We need to look at the NRR as well. It does look like a dry wicket and putting runs on the board would be good. Two changes: Priyam Garg comes in for Shashank and Fazal Farooqi comes in for Marco Jansen. Just tactical changes, things are getting tight and we just need to adjust quickly. Nice opportunity for Priyam to play at the top of the order with Abhishek Sharma.

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Pitch report: It is a sporting good wicket. There is not a lot of grass and it is a dry wicket. There are some cracks in it, and it is very dry. The spinners should come into play and pace off the ball should be the way to go in the middle overs. The wickets at this stage of the IPL are starting to look torn. 170-180 should be around par.

Playing XI

Mumbai Indians: Ishan Kishan(w), Rohit Sharma(c), Daniel Sams, Tilak Varma, Ramandeep Singh, Tristan Stubbs, Tim David, Sanjay Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Riley Meredith, Mayank Markande

SunRisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Priyam Garg, Kane Williamson(c), Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran(w), Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Umran Malik, T Natarajan