Preview :
The 2019-20 season of Vijay Hazare Trophy has kicked off today. In the group A, Defending champions Mumbai will take on Jharkhand in their second match of this tournament tomorrow. Mumbai is a mix team of young and experienced players and are also the favourites for the championship. On the other hand, Jharkhand can surprise any team on their day as they have some good young players. Though they will miss the experience of MS Dhoni.
Match Details :
Match : MUM vs JHA, Mumbai vs Jharkhand, Vijay Hazare Trophy 2019-20
Date and time : 25 September 2019, 9.00 AM IST
Venue : Bangalore
Mumbai Team News and Expected Playing XI :
Team News :
1. Mumbai’s opening match against Saurashtra washed out due to rain.
2. Shreyas Iyer will captain Mumbai in this season of Vijay Hazare Trohpy.
3. Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane have been rested ahead of India’s Test series against South Africa.
4. Prithvi Shaw isn’t part of the squad due to his 6 months suspension from playing cricket.
5. Yashasvi Jaiswal is unavailable for selection because of India U23’s unofficial ODI series against Bangladesh U23.
6. There are no major injury concerns for Mumbai team.
Expected XI :
Jay Bista, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer (c), Sarfraz Khan, Siddhesh Lad, Shams Mulani, Shivam Dhube, Aditya Tare, Shardul Thakur, Tushar Deshpande, Dhawal Kulkarni
Jharkhand Team News and Expected Playing XI :
Team News :
1. Varun Aaron is named Jharkhand’s captain for this season in the absence of MS Dhoni.
2. MS Dhoni has made himself unavailable for selection.
3. Ishank Jaggi and Vivekanand Tiwari aren’t part of the squad.
4. There are no major injury concerns for Jharkhand team camp.
Expected XI :
Anand Singh, Ishan Kishan (wk), Shasheem Rathour, Saurabh Tiwari, Kumar Deobrat, Sumit Kumar, Anukul Roy, Shahbaz Nadeem, Varun Aaron (c), Rahul Shukla, Jaskaran Singh
MUM vs JHA Dream11 Prediction :
Wicketkeepers : Ishan Kishan
Batsmen : Shreyas Iyer, Sarfraz Khan, Siddhesh Lad, Sumit Kumar
All rounders : Shivam Dhube, Anukul Roy
Bowlers : Varun Aaron, Shahbaz Nadeem, Shardul Thakur, Dhawal Kulkarni
Captain and Vice Captain :
Captain Shreyas Iyer or Ishan Kishan and vice captain Shivam Dhube or Anukul Roy
Stats and facts :
1. Last seasons performance
Mumbai – 9 wins, 2 no results and champions
Jharkhand – 8 wins, 1 loss and 2 no results and semifinalists
2. Following players from Mumbai did well in the last season of Vijay Hazare Trophy
Shreyas Iyer – 373 runs @ 93.25 in 6 innings (2*100, 2*50)
Suryakumar Yadav – 241 runs @ 48.20 in 6 innings (1*100, 1*50)
Dhawal Kulkarni – 18 wickets @ 17.55 in 9 innings (1*4-for)
Shams Mulani – 17 wickets @ 20.29 in 9 innings (1*4-for)
Shivam Dhube – 13 wickets @ 25.46 and 85 runs @ 28.33 in 9 matches
3. Following players from Jharkhand did well in the last season of Vijay Hazare Trophy
Ishan Kishan – 405 runs @ 45.00 in 9 inns (1*100, 3*50)
Anand Singh – 321 runs @ 35.66 in 9 inns (1*100, 2*50)
Anukul Roy – 219 runs @ 73.00 in 6 inns (2*50) and 15 wickets @ 20.0 (2*4-for)
Shahbaz Nadeem – 24 wickets @ 13.04 in 9 inns (2*5-for)
Varun Aaron – 18 wickets @ 18.05 in 8 inns (1*4-for)
4. Ishan Kishan the highly rated wicket keeper had a good ODI series against South Africa A earlier this month. He did play some game changing cameos in middle order.
5. Shreyas Iyer is coming off with a brilliant performance in West Indies where he smashed 2 fifties in ODI series.
6. Both the teams are two of the strongest teams of the tournament and it should be a good close fought contest.