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21-Apr-2013 05:45:00 GMT
DD vs MI, IPL 2013, New Delhi

Opening Problems for Delhi and Mumbai

New Delhi: Going by current form of their middle order batsmen, Mumbai Indians are the firm favourites in the clash against Delhi Daredevils at the Feroz Shah Kotla.

Six losses from six games - the last a haunting performance against Chennai in which they failed to bat out 20 overs and scored only 83 chasing 170 - and the Devils have been left scratching their horns for answers.

Their opponents for Sunday's game, Mumbai Indians, too have tended to blow hot and cold. They too are coming off a shambolic outing against Rajasthan Royals in which they managed only 92, lasting just 18.2 overs.

Going by current form, though, and riding on the back of domestic heavyweights Dinesh Karthik and Rohit Sharma, Mumbai are frontrunners for the Kotla clash.

On paper, Virender Sehwag and David Warner for Delhi Daredevils are even more fancied in this format than the legendary line-up of Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting, if it is possible to conjure up a more formidable pair.

Yet both sets of openers look off the boil, and while Mumbai have had batsmen down the order to compensate, Delhi cannot boast that luxury.

Teams from:

Delhi:
Mahela Jayawardene (captain), Naman Ojha (wk), Manprit Juneja, Ajit Agarkar, Andre Russell, David Warner, Irfan Pathan, Morne Morkel, Pawan Negi, Roelof van der Merwe, Shahbaz Nadeem, Umesh Yadav, Unmukt Chand, Virender Sehwag, Yogesh Nagar, Gulam Bodi, Kedar Jadhav (wk), Siddarth Kaul, Sujit Nayak, Venugopal Rao, Johan Botha, Jeevan Mendis, Ashish Nehra, Muralidharen Gautam, Aristh Singhvi, Royston Dias, Ben Rohrer

Mumbai: Ricky Ponting (captain), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Abu Nechim, Aditya Tare, Aiden Blizzard, Ambati Rayudu, Amitoze Singh, Dwayne Smith, Dhawal Kulkarni, Harbhajan Singh, Jalaj Saxena, James Franklin, Kieron Pollard, Rishi Dhawan, Lasith Malinga, Mitchell Johnson, Munaf Patel, Pawan Suyal, Pragyan Ojha, Rohit Sharma, Sachin Tendulkar, Suryakumar Yadav, Sushant Marathe, Yuzvendra Chahal, Phillip Hughes, Glenn Maxwell, Jacob Oram, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Akshar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah

Match facts
Sunday April 21, 2013 (day/night)
Start time 16:00 local (1030 GMT)


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