The 56th match of IPL 2022 between Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders will be played on Monday, 9 May 2022 at The Dr. DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai. The match will start at 07:30 PM local time.

MI is back on the winning track and this had happened due to the best performance by the batting order. The main problem of Mumbai was that their opening pair was not providing a good opening start to the middle and lower batting order. They had proved a good start and we had seen the results in the previous both matches. They scored 177 runs in 20 overs in the last match against GT. Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma provided an opening start of 74 runs for the partnership of the first wicket. The middle and lower batting order of MI is also back to good form. Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Kieron Pollard, Tim David, and Daniel Sams are playing well with the bat. Ishan Kishan was the highest run-scorer with 45 runs to his name on 25 balls with the help of five boundaries and one huge six. Tim David was the other batter who had an outstanding performance with the bat. He scored 44 runs while he faced just 21 balls and smashed two boundaries and four huge sixes during his inning. He remained not out till the 20 overs.

KKR won a match after losing four matches continuously but lost the next match against Lucknow by a huge margin. Kolkata had failed to give the best performance in almost all departments of the game like batting, bowling, and even fielding. They leaked 175 runs in 20 overs in the previous match against LSG. Tim Southee, Shivam Mavi, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, and Andre Russell are the key bowlers of KKR but no bowler had been outstanding with the ball. We think that they need to make some key changes in the bowling squad to have some chances to win the next matches. Andre Russell was the highest wicket-taker with two wickets to his name in just two overs against 22 runs. Tim Narine, Shivam Mavi, and Tim Southee picked one wicket each in the previous match while Anukul Roy and Harshit Rana could not pick any wicket. Shivam Mavi proved the most expensive bowler who leaked 50 runs in four overs while Harshit Rana was charged for 27 runs in just two overs.

MI had played 30 matches against KKR where they had won 22 matches while Kolkata had won just eight matches.

Mumbai Indians had won two out of the most recent five matches they had played while Kolkata Knight Riders had won just one match out of five recently played matches.

Mumbai Indians is a strong and well-balanced team and have a strong batting and bowling department which is in good form. The batting and bowling squad of this team is much stronger at least on papers. According to today prediction, Mumbai Indians are the favorite team who will win this match. There are many factors that make Mumbai Indians a favorite team to win this match. Some of the key factors are mentioned as under:

• MI had won two matches in a row and is in good form
• The batting order of Mumbai is playing well now in IPL 2022
• MI is still struggling with the bowling department
• The batting order of KKR almost collapsed in the previous match
• KKR will be under pressure in this match as they had to win this match at any cost

Mumbai Indians is overall a strong team when we compare with Kolkata Knight Riders. They have the best players in the t20 format of cricket. The batting order of this team is also strong and some well-known hitters of the t20 format are part of the squad of this team, so the winning chances of today’s match for Mumbai Indians 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 a 52% chance to win this match
Kolkata Knight Riders have a 48% chance to win this match

The toss is going to play an important in the result of each and every match of IPL 2022 as we had observed in the previous matches. According to toss prediction, the team who will win the toss will elect to field first as defending had been difficult in the most recent matches of IPL.

The 56th match of IPL T20, 2022 is going to be held at the Dr. DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai. We had observed in the previous matches played here that the pitch here at this venue is good for batting in early overs. The track has a good amount of pace and bounce which allows the batsmen to the good cricketing shorts but this ground also have big boundaries which can be a plus point for the bowlers. A score of 190 plus seems to be a par score.

The weather forecast for Mumbai 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.

Mumbai Indians
shan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Kieron Pollard, Daniel Sams, Murugan Ashwin, Kumar Kartikeya, Jasprit Bumrah, Riley Meredith, Rohit Sharma.

Kolkata Knight Riders
Baba Indrajith (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Tim Southee, Shivam Mavi, Harshit Rana, Aaron Finch.

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Date: Monday, 9th May 2022
Time: 02:00 PM GMT, 07:30 PM LOCAL, 07:30 PM IST

Stadium: Dr. DY Patil Sports Academy
Location: Mumbai, India
Opened: 2007
Capacity: 60,000
Ends: Media End, Pavilion End
Time Zone: UTC +05:30
Floodlights: Yes

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