Two teams who represent the traditional powerhouses of Indian cricket – Mumbai and Delhi – will come up against each other in Match 9 of VIVO IPL 2018.The Mumbai Indians and Delhi Daredevils have played two matches each this season but are yet to open their account. The Mumbai Indians have gotten the better of the Delhi Daredevils on their last four visits to the Wankhede Stadium.
Mumbai Indians have been at the receiving end of two nail-biters; in the season opener, they were at the receiving end of Dwayne Bravo’s onslaught that helped CSK to a win, while most recently, despite scoring a below-par 147-8 against Sunrisers Hyderabad, MI made a match out of it, only to be pipped right at the post. MI, who have established a reputation of being slow beginners, should be worried that despite all the might in their batting line-up, not one of their batsman has scored a half-century in their two matches so far. Against SRH, Evin Lewis’ 29 was the top score of the innings, while in the opener against CSK, three batsmen made 40s but none converted to a big score.
Head to Head (MI vs DD)
Overall: Matches – 20, Mumbai Indians won – 11, Delhi Daredevils won – 9
At the Wankhede Stadium: Matches– 6, Mumbai Indians won – 5, Delhi Daredevils won – 1.
IPL Trivia (MI vs DD)
1. Gautam Gambhir’s batting average of 22.60 against the Mumbai Indians is his lowest against any of the currently participating eight IPL teams.
2. The last time Trent Boult played a match at the Wankhede Stadium – an ODI on 22 October 2017 – he walked away with the wickets of Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, MS Dhoni and Hardik Pandya.
3. The batting strike-rate of Munro, Pant and Maxwell in T20 cricket read 148.69, 161.22 and 157.63 respectively.