Live: Indian Premier League 2019 | MI vs SRH scorecard

So huge has Warner’s impact been on the Sunrisers’ campaign that his absence for the last two crunch games will be the biggest challenge .

May 02, 2019 07:30 pm | Updated 07:51 pm IST

If Mumbai Indians win on May 2, they qualify for the play-offs while a victory for SRH will take them level on 14 points with the home side and both will have to wait longer to know their fate.

If Mumbai Indians win on May 2, they qualify for the play-offs while a victory for SRH will take them level on 14 points with the home side and both will have to wait longer to know their fate.

Mumbai Indians won the toss and opted to bat in their Indian Premier League match against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Mumbai on  Thursday.

Martin Guptill and Basil Thampi came in for David Warner and Sandeep Sharma in the Sunrisers Hyderabad line-up, while Mumbai Indians are playing an unchanged side.

Teams:

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Wriddhiman Saha, Martin Guptill, Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson (capt), Mohammad Nabi, Vijay Shankar, Rashid Khan, Abhishek Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, K Khaleel Ahmed, Basil Thampi

Mumbai Indians: Quinton de Kock, Rohit Sharma (capt), Evin Lewis, Suryakumar Yadav, Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Barinder Sran, Rahul Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah, Lasith Malinga.

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The last time Mumbai Indians played at home, the election fever in the island city was at its peak, India’s World Cup squad was at the centre of every Indian Premier League-related discussion and David Warner and Jonny Bairstow were pummelling virtually every bowling attack for Sunrisers Hyderabad.

Cut to Wednesday, the eve of the penultimate league game for both the teams, and despite the other discussions having relatively died down, Warner and Bairstow, especially the former, continued to be the talk of the Wankhede Stadium.

It’s been a week since Bairstow flew back to England for the World Cup preparations and barely a couple of days since Warner had to cut short his IPL dream run and join his Aussie mates for the training camp. With nine fifty-plus scores, including a hundred, in his 12 innings for SRH, so huge has Warner’s impact been on the Sunrisers’ campaign that his absence for the last two crunch games will be the biggest challenge for Kane Williamson and Co to deal with.

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