Delhi Capitals captain Axar Patel has won the toss and elected to bowl first against Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League 2025. “We are bowling first. Our batting is chasing well, and we are not aware of how the wicket would behave, so it is better to bat second. I don’t trust the past numbers. If we bowl and chase, we will win the game. It is a small ground and you will have to execute your plans. Even if you get hit on a good ball, you will have to keep the ball in the same area again. I am hoping to see support from the fans,” Axar Patel said on Star Sports.
Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya is looking forward to batting first against DC. It is good to have one game where we follow what the opposition wants as we have won four tosses and took a call on what we wanted to do. The conversation with players has been about the areas where we are making mistakes. There is no lack of experience in the team. We are not far away from a good game. It is important to read the game situation properly and execute our plans. We are not pressing the panic button as it could impact the players. But things are getting tight for us, and we must start performing.
Mumbai Indians: 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Ryan Rickelton (wk), 3 Will Jacks, 4 Suryakumar Yadav, 5 Tilak Varma, 6 Hardik Pandya (capt.), 7 Naman Dhir, 8 Mitchell Santner, 9 Deepak Chahar, 10 Trent Boult, 11 Jasprit Bumrah
MI Impact options: Karn Sharma, Corbin Bosch, Ashwani Kumar, Raj Bawa, Robin Minz
Delhi Capitals: 1 Jake Fraser-McGurk, 2 Abishek Porel, 3 KL Rahul (wk), 4 Axar Patel (capt.), 5 Tristan Stubbs, 6 Ashutosh Sharma, 7 Vipraj Nigam, 8 Mitchell Starc, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Mukesh Kumar, 11 Mohit Sharma
DC Impact options: Sameer Rizvi, Karun Nair, Darshan Nalkhande, Donovan Ferreira, Dushmantha Chameera