The Mumbai Indians will be eyeing their first points on the board when they take on the Royal Challengers Bangalore in Match 16 of Pepsi IPL 2015. The two teams occupy the bottom two places in the standings and will be keen to make a climb up the ladder.
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RCB have played the fewest matches of all teams at this stage – two – and have two points to show from their win against the Kolkata Knight Riders. They lost their first home match of the season to Sunrisers Hyderabad despite posting 166 runs on the board and will need to address the problems in the bowling department.
There is enough firepower in the batting department and one can bank on one of the big guns to fire every time, but the quick bowlers have come in for plenty of stick – leaking runs at 9.72 runs per over and that is an area that calls for an immediate fix. Mitchell Starc, the Player of the World Cup 2015, is expected to join the team and his addition could be huge boost to the RCB bowling lineup.
Mumbai Indians have problems galore. From problems with the opening pair, to batting well in the first six overs, to some of the tactics used, MI need to revisit the drawing board to get things in order.
Areas to fix include: getting their batting order right, for the opening pair to get runs (the team has had opening partnerships of 8, 0, 27 & 1) and batting well in the first six overs (scores of 37-3, 17-3, 31-1 & 31-3 in the first six overs).
The positives the team could look at are: the form of Kieron Pollard and Rohit Sharma, posting a century partnership in three of their four matches, and posting totals of 168-3, 159-7, 164-5 and 183-7 despite the poor starts.
By: IPLT20
