Aakash Chopra wants Mumbai Indians (MI) seamer Jasprit Bumrah to recover from two inconsistent performances before of his team’s IPL 2024 match against the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) on Tuesday, April 30.
Jasprit Bumrah is the joint-highest wicket-taker in IPL 2024, with 14 scalps at an economy rate of 6.63 in nine games, alongside Mustafizur Rahman and Harshal Patel. However, in the previous two games, the unorthodox seamer has taken one wicket and given 72 runs in eight overs.
Chopra identified Bumrah as the Mumbai Indians bowler to keep an eye on in a video posted on his YouTube channel.
“Without a shadow of doubt, it’s Boom Boom Bumrah. The side boundaries are big and Bumrah has given slightly lackluster performances in the last two matches. It cannot happen that he gives lackluster performances in three consecutive matches. So I am going towards Jasprit Bumrah that he will come and do something spectacular.”
Aakash Chopra
The man who used to open the batting for India picked Suryakumar Yadav as the first Mumbai Indians (MI) batter to watch out for against Lucknow Super Giants.
“I am going to go with Suryakumar Yadav because if he had played decently in the last match against Delhi, they (MI) would have won the match. The powerplay actually killed them completely against Delhi. Two got out and then Surya also got out soon.”
“If you lost by only 10 runs from there, it means the batting is strong. Tilak Varma is scoring runs for you every day. Even Hardik’s (Pandya) bat was striking the ball well. (Mohammad) Nabi also comes and hits sixes, and Tim David is there. In such a scenario you feel that if Suryakumar Yadav fires, their wagon will start moving.”
Aakash Chopra
Suryakumar has 166 runs in six innings in IPL 2024, with a relatively dismal average of 27.67. He hit a 13-ball 26 in MI’s 10-run loss to the Delhi Capitals (DC) on April 27 and hopes to make a more significant impact against LSG.
“He is coming after scoring two half-centuries in two games” – Aakash Chopra on MI’s Tilak Varma
Aakash Chopra picked Tilak Varma to watch out for in the Mumbai Indians game. Tilak Varma is a young player on the Mumbai Indians team.
“Tilak Varma this time because he has been playing well. He is coming after scoring two half-centuries in two games. The expectation was that Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma would both do well but they have gone off the boil in the last two games. They were giving good starts before that.”
“The last two matches have been 50-50. The Ekana ground, big side boundaries, the new ball moves a little – Matt Henry and Mohsin Khan, I am going with Tilak Varma. Varma Ji’s son should do a good job once again, score runs and another half-century should get loaded from his bat.”
Aakash Chopra
Tilak Varma is the Mumbai Indians’ leading run-scorer in IPL 2024, with 336 runs at 158.49 strike rate in nine innings. The left-handed hitter scored half-centuries in the previous two games for the five-time champs, but they were in vain.