🏏IPL 2024: Match 43 - DC vs MI at Delhi @ 3:30PM IST🏏 - Page 5

 A win for Delhi Capitals will put them just outside the top four. A win for Mumbai Indians will have them join the midl-table logjam with eight points.

Nilashish says: "Taking into consideration only IPL performances for WC is going to hurt India big time. There's no impact player rule and pitches won't be highways."

A win for Delhi Capitals will put them just outside the top four. A win for Mumbai Indians will have them join the midl-table logjam with eight points.

Pitch and Conditions: "There is not a cloud in the sky and the mercury is almost touching 40, 39 degrees for an afternoon fixture. We will get to the pitch, but first the dimensions - to my left 59 meters, on the other side 64 meters and down town is roughly about 73, but the major concern is 54 meters behind the wicket on one side. The only difference I see today is it is quite bare, there is no grass here and you'd think wow that is going to be brilliant for the spinners. It is going to be slightly better for the spinners, but the problem for the bowlers is it is rock hard. It is like a sheet of marble. No grass will allow the spinners to have a bit of turn and if you look at the spin attacks, Delhi have a slight advantage. Nothing for the seamers," reckon Danny Morrison and Sanjay Manjrekar.

Thank you for the tag, Raji! MI haarna bandh karo..

Pitch and Conditions: "There is not a cloud in the sky and the mercury is almost touching 40, 39 degrees for an afternoon fixture. We will get to the pitch, but first the dimensions - to my left 59 meters, on the other side 64 meters and down town is roughly about 73, but the major concern is 54 meters behind the wicket on one side. The only difference I see today is it is quite bare, there is no grass here and you'd think wow that is going to be brilliant for the spinners. It is going to be slightly better for the spinners, but the problem for the bowlers is it is rock hard. It is like a sheet of marble. No grass will allow the spinners to have a bit of turn and if you look at the spin attacks, Delhi have a slight advantage. Nothing for the seamers," reckon Danny Morrison and Sanjay Manjrekar.

Nilashish says: "Taking into consideration only IPL performances for WC is going to hurt India big time. There's no impact player rule and pitches won't be highways."

Just like selection debates have been raging in India about what they should do with their top order, there's some rumbling down under over the make up of their squad and who opens? Has Jake Fraser-McGurk done enough to warrant a place in the squad? He was an outsider until he came into the IPL, but his barnstorming approach has brought him into conversations. Imagine a Fraser-McGurk and Travis Head as their openers? Formidable enough?

That's the reason i want them injure before WC.. Maaf kar dena bhagwan ji🙏🏻

2.47pm First visuals of the players. Rohit and Prithvi Shaw having a chat pitchside. A while earlier, Pant, Ganguly and Ponting were seen having a long discussion. Will it have been about Warner's position? Do they bring him back or stick to the XI that beat the Titans?

Here's a teaser: "Bumrah does extraordinary things so routinely that they've almost lost their ability to blow your mind. Then he runs up and bowls his next highlights-reel ball, making you marvel at him afresh."

Still some time for the toss. Here's a chance for you to dig in to this wonderfully written piece by Karthik Krishnaswamy on Jasprit Bumrah.

Here's a teaser: "Bumrah does extraordinary things so routinely that they've almost lost their ability to blow your mind. Then he runs up and bowls his next highlights-reel ball, making you marvel at him afresh."