The cricket fans are ready to witness yet another big battle of the Indian Premier League. The 5th Match match of Dream11 IPL T20 2020 is scheduled to play between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians on Wednesday, 23rd September 2020 at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi. We are posting safe, accurate, and secure today match prediction for all matches of IPL T20 free.

Kolkata Knight Riders are one of the oldest and experienced teams of the Indian Premier League. They had been the part of this tournament since 2008 and also had won the title of IPL T20 for two times. The performance of this team was not impressive in the previous season of IPL. They played a total of 14 matches at the league stage with six wins to their name. They lost eight matches and were tied with the Sunrisers Hyderabad on the fifth position on the points table after the end of league stage matches but they failed to qualify for the playoffs due to the low run rate. The team management of this team had made some key changes in their squad for this season of Dream11 IPL. The wicket-keeper batsman, Dinesh Karthik will be leading this team during this tournament. The batting order of this team is strong at least on papers.

Eoin Morgan, Shubman Gill, Nikhil Naik, Nitish Rana, Siddhesh Lad, Rinku Singh, and Rahul Tripathi will be leading the batting order of Kolkata Knight Riders. Andre Russell is in excellent form as we had observed in the CPL and this is a good sign for KKR. With Andre Russell, Shivam Mavi and Chris Green are the bowling all-rounders for this side while Tom Banton is the wicket-keeper batsman who is the part of the squad of this team. Kolkata Knight Riders are very rich when it comes to the bowling department. Some best and well-known bowlers of the t20 format are the part of the squad of KKR. Pat Cummins, Kuldeep Yadav, Sunil Narine, Sandeep Warrier, Lockie Ferguson, Manimaran Siddharth, Prasidh Krishna, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Varun Chakravarthy, and Ali Khan will be taking care of the bowling department of the Kolkata Knight Riders.

The defending champions and the most successful team of Indian Premier League failed to have a kick start to this edition of Dream11 IPL and lost their opening match against Chennai Super Kings by the margin of five wickets. They lost the toss and were asked to bat first. The performance of their batting order was good. They scored a total of 162 runs in their inning of 20 overs. Saurabh Tiwary was the most successful and highest run-scorer from their side who scored 42 runs while he faced 31 deliveries and smashed three boundaries and one six. Quinton de Kock also had a good performance with the bat. He scored 33 runs on just 20 balls with the help of five boundaries. Kieron Pollard scored 18 runs while Suryakumar Yadav had 17 runs to his name. Hardik Pandya could manage to score 14 runs while the skipper, Rohit Sharma had just 12 runs to his name.

The bowling unit of Mumbai Indians had a good start and send both openers of Chennai Super Kings back to the pavilion on a total of just six runs but they failed to defend the target of 163 runs and were charged for the target in 19.2 overs. Almost all bowlers from their side picked wickets. James Pattinson was one most economical bowler from their side who picked one wicket in his four overs bowled out against 27 runs. Trent Boult also performed well with the ball. He picked one wicket in his 3.2 overs bowled out against 23 runs. Jasprit Bumrah was the bowler who failed to perform in the previous match as per expectations. He leaked 43 in his four overs bowled out and picked one wicket. Krunal Pandya and Rahul Chahar picked one wicket each in the previous match. We had observed in the previous match that the batting order of Mumbai Indians is in good form but their bowling unit is struggling and they need to give their best performance in the upcoming matches.

Mumbai Indians are overall a strong team and already had played a match. Mumbai Indians is a strong team as compared to the Kolkata Knight Riders at least on papers. According to our IPL T20 prediction, Mumbai Indians is the favorite team that will win this match. There are many factors that make Kolkata Knight Riders a favorite team to win this match. Some of the key factors are mentioned as under:

• The batting order of both teams is strong at least on papers
• Mumbai Indians had lost the first match and they will come with the full strength
• The presence of Eoin Morgan and Andre Russel make Kolkata Knight Riders a strong team
• The bowling unit of Kolkata Knight Riders is experienced and strong

Mumbai Indians are full of experienced and young players in the t20 format. The batting order of this team is also strong and some well-known hitter of t20 format is the part of the squad of this team, so the winning chances of today match for Kolkata Knight Riders have been increased. The equation of who will win today’s cricket match prediction and who will win the cricket match today is mentioned as under.

Mumbai Indians have 53% chances to win this match
Kolkata Knight Riders have 47% chances to win this match

The toss is going to play an important role in the result of each and every match of the Indian Premier League as we had observed in the previous matches. According to our toss prediction, the team who will win the toss will elect to field first as there is some rain expected and can make the batting a bit difficult.

The 5th Match match of the Indian Premier League is going to be held at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi. We had observed in the previous matches played here that the pitch here at this venue is good for batting. The track is slower than the others we have seen and helps the spinners quite a bit. We are hoping that the surface is bound to get slower and be a bit more difficult for batting in this match. A score of 190 is going to be tough to chase.

The weather forecast for Abu Dhabi is good for this cricket match. There are almost no chances of rain in the region and we are hopeful that we will have a full match to enjoy.

Dream11 fantasy team lineup prediction for Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians 5th Match match IPL 2020. After checking the latest players’ availability, which players will be part of both teams, he possible tactics that the two teams might use as we had leaned from previous seasons of Indian Premier League to make the best possible Dream11 team.

Date: Wednesday, 23rd September 2020
Time: 02:00 PM GMT / 06:00 PM LOCAL / 07:30 PM IST

Stadium: Sheikh Zayed Stadium
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Opened: 2004
Capacity: 20,000
Ends: North End, Pavilion End
Time Zone: UTC +04:00
Home to: United Arab Emirates
Floodlights: Yes

Total matches: 44
Matches won batting first: 19
Matches won bowling first: 25
Average 1st Inns scores: 137
Average 2nd Inns scores: 128
Highest total recorded: 225/7 (20 Ov) by IRE vs AFG
Lowest total recorded: 87/10 (18.3 Ov) by HK vs OMAN
Highest score chased: 166/6 (19.4 Ov) by HK vs AFG
Lowest score defended: 129/6 (20 Ov) by ENG vs PAK

Dinesh Karthik (c & wk), Shivam Mavi, Sandeep Warrier, Kuldeep Yadav, Eoin Morgan, Pat Cummins, Sunil Narine, Nikhil Naik, Manimaran Siddharth, Andre Russell, Lockie Ferguson, Prasidh Krishna, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Siddhesh Lad, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Rinku Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Tom Banton, Chris Green, Rahul Tripathi.