IPL 2024: Hardik Pandya set to play 100th match for Mumbai Indians, 8th as skipper

This volition beryllium the 2nd clip that Rajasthan Royals (RR) volition conscionable Mumbai Indians (MI) and clash with each different astatine the IPL 2024 season.

In the erstwhile clash connected 1 April astatine Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium, Rajasthan Royals defeated the 5-time IPL trophy winners by 6 wickets.

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Before retuning to Mumbai Indians successful December, Pandya had 2 glorious years with Gujarat Titans arsenic skipper and adjacent won the trophy successful 2022-23 edition. Pandya has represented MI from 2015-21 and during this tenure played cardinal roles successful lifting the IPL trophy 4 times – 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020.

Looking astatine the data, Pandya has scored 1,617 runs astatine an mean of 26.95 and a onslaught complaint of 153.27 successful 99 matches for MI, on with 4 fifties. His champion for MI is 91*. While, helium besides took 46 wickets with the champion figures of 3/20.

For Gujarat Giants, helium scored 833 runs successful 31 matches astatine an mean of 37.86 and a onslaught complaint of 133.49, with six fifties. He besides took 11 wickets for the franchise, with the champion spell of 3.17.

Combining some his MI and GG tenure, Pandya has scored 2,450 successful his IPL vocation astatine an mean of 29.88 and a onslaught complaint of implicit 145, with 10 fifties. His champion people is 91*. He has besides taken 57 wickets, with the champion figures of 3/17.

However, this IPL has been a small unsmooth from him arsenic successful 7 matches, Pandya scored 141 runs astatine an mean of 23.50 and a onslaught complaint of 146.88. He has besides taken conscionable 4 wickets successful this season.

MI vs RR squads: 

Mumbai Indians: Ishan Kishan(w), Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Mohammad Nabi, Gerald Coetzee, Shreyas Gopal, Jasprit Bumrah, Akash Madhwal, Nuwan Thushara, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Naman Dhir, Luke Wood, Harvik Desai, Shams Mulani, Arjun Tendulkar, Nehal Wadhera, Shivalik Sharma, Anshul Kamboj, Dewald Brevis, Kwena Maphaka

Rajasthan Royals: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Rovman Powell, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Kuldeep Sen, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jos Buttler, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Shubham Dubey, Navdeep Saini, Nandre Burger, Sandeep Sharma, Keshav Maharaj, Tanush Kotian, Donovan Ferreira, Abid Mushtaq, Kunal Singh Rathore.

With bureau inputs.

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Published: 22 Apr 2024, 06:16 PM IST