The cricket fans are ready to witness yet another big battle of the IPL T20. The 17th Match of the Indian Premier League is scheduled to play between Punjab Kings and Mumbai Indians on Friday, 23rd April 2021 at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. We are posting safe, accurate, and 100% secure today match prediction for all matches of IPL T20 free.

Punjab Kings are in a very tough position after losing three matches in a row and need some boosting performances by their bowling and batting departments. The batting order of Punjab Kings is not weak but they had struggled in the conditions of Chennai. The batsmen of this team are not good while playing against spin bowlers and this is a huge hurdle for them. We think that they need Sarafarz Khan in the middle order to score some runs against spin bowlers. Chennai is a low-scoring venue and we think that a score of more than 160 is a good score but for that, you need the best bowling performances which we had not seen by the bowling department of Punjab Kings. We have not to doubt that the batsmen like KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, and Nicholas Pooran are good but they need to spend some time on the crease and have to score in this match.

Punjab Kings are still struggling to find a good combination when it comes to the bowling department. Ravi Bishnoi is not in the final playing eleven? this is a huge question and we are sure that he will be available in the final playing eleven for this match and maybe he replaces M Ashwin. The performance of Mohammed Shami had been good in the previous match but the performance of other bowlers still has a big question mark. Fabian Allen, Murugan Ashwin, Moises Henriques, and Deepak Hooda need to give their best performance in upcoming matches to take their team out of a difficult situation.

The defending champion, Mumbai Indians had won just two out of four matches played so far. The batting order of this team is strong but they had failed to score some big runs in the conditions of Chennai. The other main issue of Mumbai Indians had been their middle-order batting. In almost all matches, they had a good start but had failed to convert it into a big total. This we saw in their previous match against Delhi Capitals where they had a good start when they were 67 for two but they could manage to score just 137 runs in their inning of 20 overs. Ishan Kishan, Krunal Pandya, Hardik Pandya, and Kieron Pollard are players of high caliber but they had failed to put some runs in the middle overs for Mumbai Indians. A good thing for this team is that their skipper is back to the form and they can score some big runs in the next matches.

The bowling unit of Mumbai Indians is world-class and they had played a role in the matches that they had won. Jasprit Bumrah and Trent Boult had been outstanding with the ball in almost all previously played matches. Rahul Chahar is another bowler who had picked some early wickets in the previous matches. Krunal Pandya had not performed well in the previous match. He had been much expensive and also had failed to pick early wickets. Adam Milne is another bowler who had performed well so far but he was dropped in the previous match against Delhi Capitals. We are sure that he will be back in the playing eleven for this match. We had seen some bad performances by Mumbai Indians but this is mean that they are a weak team. They are a strong team and can make comeback against any team of this season of IPL at any stage.

Punjab Kings had played 26 matches against Mumbai Indians where Punjab Kings had won 12 matches while Mumbai Indians had won 14 matches overall.

Punjab Kings had won just one out of five most recent matches played while Mumbai Indians had won three out of five recently played matches.

Mumbai Indians is a strong and better-balanced team and has a strong batting and bowling department. The batting and bowling squad of this team is much stronger at least on papers. According to our cricket match prediction, Mumbai Indians is 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:

• The batting and bowling unit of Mumbai Indians is world-class
• Mumbai Indians have a better batting lineup and a good setup
• Punjab Kings is overall a well-balanced side
• Punjab Kings have more strength in their batting lineup
• Mumbai Indians are weak when it comes to power-hitting
• Punjab Kings have depth in the batting and bowling

Mumbai Indians is overall a strong team than Punjab Kings. They have the best players in the t20 format. The batting order of this team is also strong and some well-known hitter of t20 format is part of the squad of this team, so the winning chances of today match for Mumbai Indians have been increased. The equation of who will win today cricket match prediction and who will win the cricket match today is mentioned as under.

Mumbai Indians have 58% chances to win this match
Punjab Kings has 42% chances to win this match

The toss is going to play an important in the result of each and every match of IPL T20 as we had observed in the previous editions. According to our 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 17th Match of IPL T20, 2021 is going to be held at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. 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 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 the last overs this match. A score of 185 seems to be a par score.

The weather forecast of Chennai is almost good 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 Punjab Kings vs Mumbai Indians 17th Match IPL 2021. After checking the latest players’ availability, which players will be part of both teams, the possible tactics that the two teams might use as we had learned from previous seasons of the Indian Premier League to make the best possible Dream11 team.

Date: Friday, 23rd April 2021
Time: 02:00 PM GMT / 07:30 PM LOCAL / 07:30 PM IST

Stadium: MA Chidambaram Stadium
Location: Chennai, India
Capacity: 50000
Known as: Chepauk; Madras Cricket Club Ground
Ends: Anna Pavilion End, V Pattabhiraman Gate End
Time Zone: UTC +05:30
Home to: Tamil Nadu, Chennai Super Kings
Floodlights: Yes

Total matches: 2
Matches won batting first: 1
Matches won bowling first: 1
Average 1st Inns scores: 174
Average 2nd Inns scores: 174
Highest total recorded: 182/4 (20 Ov) by IND vs WI
Highest score chased: 182/4 (20 Ov) by IND vs WI
Lowest score defended: 167/5 (20 Ov) by NZ vs IND

KL Rahul (c & wk), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Nicholas Pooran, Deepak Hooda, Moises Henriques, Shahrukh Khan, Fabian Allen, Murugan Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Mandeep Singh, Chris Jordan, Dawid Malan, Jalaj Saxena, Sarfaraz Khan, Saurabh Kumar, Jhye Richardson, Ishan Porel, Riley Meredith, Utkarsh Singh, Darshan Nalkande, Prabhsimran Singh, Harpreet Brar, Ravi Bishnoi.