Apr 13, 2025, 01:50 PM

Axar Patel won the toss as Delhi Capitals (DC), the only unbeaten team at IPL 2025, elected to chase in their first home fixture at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Axar cited their impeccable chasing record, not conditions, as one of the reasons for their decision.

Faf du Plessis, who returned from a groin strain for the game against RCB three days ago, misses out again. The rest of DC’s XI remains the same, with a new Impact Player likely to come in.

Coming off a five-day break, Mumbai Indians (MI) are unchanged from their previous fixture against RCB. They’re currently ninth with one win in five games, but Hardik underlined the need to stay calm.

He also wasn’t too fussed about having to bat; he felt they were “not far from having a good game” but admitted the margin for error is very minimal as they look to climb their way up the points table.

“We’re trying not to hit the panic button, it’s about remaining calm and if we back each other, we’d be able to turn things around. IPL is a long tournament, if you don’t catch up it becomes difficult in the end. We don’t have much margin for error.”

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

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