After a five-game losing streak, the Chargers earned their first points against Kolkata and then scored their first win of the season against Pune.
The inconsistent Mumbai Indians would be keen to rediscover their winning touch when they clash with bottom-placed Deccan Chargers in the return leg game of the Indian Premier League at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.
After a five-game losing streak, the Chargers earned their first points against Kolkata Knight Riders in a washed-out game and then scored their first win of the season against Pune Warriors in the latter's backyard.
MI's performance has waxed and waned from the opening encounter against defending champions Chennai Super Kings and they go into the game against the Chargers with a 50:50 win-loss record, their last defeat occurring last night against the Delhi Daredevils.
Another defeat would dent their chances of advancing to the play-off stage of the competition considerably.
Chargers, on the other hand, would be keen to set right the last-ball defeat suffered against MI at Visakhapatnam on April 9 when Rohit Sharma carried the latter across the finish line with an unbeaten 73.
With just eight points from as man games, the task has become more challenging for MI to make it to the last four.
Some bad luck, in the form of injuries to key players, has also set MI back. When Sachin Tendulkar regained fitness to finally take the field after recovering from the finger injury sustained in the tournament opener, the team's bowling spearhead, Lasith Malinga, was laid low by a sore back.
Malinga returned to the playing eleven at Delhi's Ferozshah Kotla but the side were without James Franklin in the same match after the New Zealander had cracked a match-winning 79 against Kings XI here on April 22.
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