IPL 2021: MI win toss, opt to bat; Manish Pandey makes his captaincy debut for SRH, still no Warner

Mumbai Indians have won the toss and chosen to bat first against the Sunrisers Hyderabad in Match No 55 in the 2021 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Skipper Rohit Sharma said that they have no choice but to bat first and mentioned that the numbers are scary (win by at least 171 runs) but they will give it all.

For Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) there was a last-minute change as Manish Pandey was leading the side in place of Kane Williamson. Pandey told that Williamson had an elbow niggle while pacer Bhuneshwar Kumar had a finger injury he sustained in the last game.

SRH made a couple of changes but Warner still remained out of the side as they brought in off-spinning all-rounder Mohammad Nabi and Pandey came in as well.

Mumbai Indians, on the other hand, too made a couple of changes as well bringing in all-rounder Krunal Pandya and veteran leg-spinner Piyush Chawla, who was making his debut for the defending champions, in place of Saurabh Tiwary and Jayant Yadav.

Playing XIs

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Jason Roy, Wriddhiman Saha(wk), Manish Pandey (c), Priyam Garg, Abhishek Sharma, Mohammad Nabi, Abdul Samad, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Umran Malik, Siddharth Kaul

Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (c), Ishan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, James Neesham, Krunal Pandya, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Piyush Chawla, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult

.@im_manishpandey leading @SunRisers in absence of Kane Williamson.

Piyush Chawla is making @mipaltan debut. #VIVOIPL #SRHvMI

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