Mumbai Indians V Trinidad and Tobago Champions League T20 Preview And Live Timings
Mumbai Indians will go into the game against Trinidad and Tobago with injury issues and a freak win over the Chennai Super Kings.
The Mumbai Indians will look to build from their shocking upset over the Chennai Super Kings when they take on the qualifiers Trinidad and Tobago in the sixth game of the Champions League T20 this season.
Venue: M Chinnaswamy in Bangalore
Date: September 26, 2011
Time: 2000 hours local time, 1430 hours GMT onwards
The Mumbai Indians v Trinidad and Tobago Champions League T20, 2011 match will be shown live on Star Cricket in India.
Previous Results:
Trinidad and Tobago qualified for the tournament with a couple of wins over the Ruhuna Rhinos and Leicestershire Foxes. Clearly, they have a strong enough team to take on any in the world and on paper, could be a tad superior to their opponents.
Mumbai Indians beat Chennai Super Kings in their first game of the tournament after all seemed to be lost. Chennai skipper MS Dhoni attributed it to his missed stumping in the dying overs but it must be said that the Mumbai Indians showed amazing grit to hang in there when all seemed to be lost.
Key Players:
The Mumbai Indians have been allowed the leeway of an extra international player in their side and that will be the one advantage they will look to take by getting in the experience of Andrew Symonds in the middle order. Symonds did not fire in the first match but the Mumbai Indians management will hope for something more from him in this game.
Trinidad and Tobago could be looking at their barrage of spin bowlers to make scoring difficult for the Mumbai Indians stroke-players. Sunil Narine and Samuel Badree had had a good time in the qualifiers and will hope to stall their opposition.
It could also boil down to how the top-order bats for the Trinidad and Tobago given how little practice the middle-order has had.
And they will miss...
Having said the above, the Trinidad and Tobago spinners will realise that the Chepauk pitch is a much easier batting wicket than the one they had bowled in the qualifiers – at Hyderabad. The side from the Caribbean could miss that slow and low pitch.
Mumbai Indians had gone into the Champions League T20 without some of their stars and they received another blow when Davy Jacobs, their opening bat and wicket-keeper, had to be stretchered off on Sunday. If he fails his fitness test, the side will have to re-jig their line-up.
Prediction:
Trinidad and Tobago could hold an edge here against the Mumbai Indians. However, the win over the Super Kings should keep the IPL 2011 runner-up in a good stead.
For the rest of the schedule, format and timings for the Champions League T20, 2011, click here.
