RCB vs MI Playing 11: Rohit Sharma might play Hardik Pandya card for duel with Virat Kohli

Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians, Playing 11 Team For Today’s T20 Match: It’s a giant combat between the outgoing captain and the captain-designate. Virat Kohli will step down as India’s T20I captain after the T20 World Cup subsequent month and Rohit Sharma is ready to take over.
The context is totally different in an IPL fixture between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians, led by Kohli and Rohit respectively. But for each of them, this is a chance to attain some captaincy brownie factors.
RCB and MI are in the identical boat in the meanwhile, having misplaced back-to-back matches within the second part of the match within the United Arab Emirates. RCB with 10 factors vis-a-vis MI’s 8, a minimum of have some respiration house. But if MI don’t win tonight, the defending champions might slip within the mire.
Misfiring middle-order
In their earlier two matches, each RCB and MI have been badly affected by a middle-order implosion. If the query for RCB is who after AB de Villiers, who’s 37 years previous and but to hit his straps on this leg of the IPL, the query that embeds MI is about what has occurred to Hardik Pandya?
Pandya’s niggle
The official communication says allrounder Pandya is recovering from a niggle, however being a member of India’s T20 World Cup squad, why isn’t he on the National Cricket Academy then for his rehab? The BCCI of late has made it obligatory for all its contracted cricketers to have a ‘fitness clearance’ from the NCA.
It could be fascinating to see if Hardik turns up towards RCB. Not solely will it add meat to MI’s batting and bowling, however it’s going to additionally take away doubts associated to his health. Another missed sport and whispers will develop louder. If Hardik performs, he’ll are available in for Saurabh Tiwary.
Another possible change for MI might be Nathan Coulter-Nile for Adam Milne.
Ahmed for Saini?
As regards to RCB, Rajat Patidar might be introduced in to shore up an iffy middle-order. And given the larger outfield on the Dubai stadium, spin-allrounder Shahbaz Ahmed would possibly change pacer Navdeep Saini. The latter leaked runs towards Chennai Super Kings and even when Suresh Raina and Ambati Rayudu have been batting, Kohli didn’t appear to have sufficient confidence in Saini to offer him a second spell.
RCB possible XI: Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers, Rajat Patidar, Kyle Jamieson, KS Bharat, Harshal Patel, Shahbaz Ahmed, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal
MI possible XI: Quinton de Kock, Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Hardik Pandya/Saurabh Tiwary, Adam Milne/Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rahul Chahar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah