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Rohit Sharma Injured As Hardik Pandya's MI Put Rishabh Pant's LSG To Bat First

Rajgeeta Yadav

Hardik Pandya won the toss and opted to bowl first [Source: JioHotstar]Hardik Pandya won the toss and opted to bowl first [Source: JioHotstar]

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and Mumbai Indians (MI) locked horns in the 16th match of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 at the Ekana Cricket Stadium on March 4. At toss, MI won the toss and opted to bowl first against the Rishabh Pant's boys.

However, former MI captain has been ruled out of this match due to a knee injury. MI have made one change, bringing in Raj Angad Bawa in place of Tilak Varma. On the other hand, LSG have also made a change, with Akash Deep replacing Ravi Bishnoi.

LSG vs MI: Captains' Thought

Rishabh Pant (Lucknow Super Giants Captain): "We are pretty confident as a batting unit, very strong unit. Few players haven't come off including me but going into the tournament this is the lineup we thought that would play and we want to back it up. The discussion is to go out there and express yourself. We don't talk about any target to achieve. It's about see ball and play it. The way I have set up myself, we are quite confident. We haven't capitalised yet but hope we do it soon."

Hardik Pandya (Mumbai Indians Captain): "We are going to bowl first. looks like a fresh wicket. Don't know how it's gonna play. Dew might come in later. So, we thought chasing will be better.As a group, we have spoken about not talking about the wickets. When we play good cricket, we will come out on the right side. Let's talk about how we gonna play good cricket and how we move forward from that."


LSG vs MI: Playing XIs

Mumbai Indians Playing XI: Will Jacks, Ryan Rickelton (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Naman Dhir, Hardik Pandya (c), Raj Angad Bawa, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Trent Boult, Vignesh Puthur, Ashwani Kumar

Lucknow Super Giants Playing XI: Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant (c and wk), David Miller, Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Shardul Thakur, Avesh Khan, Akash Deep