All but out of contention for the playoffs, Royal Challengers Bangalore would look to salvage a difficult season by sorting out their batting woes when they take on Mumbai Indians in an Indian Premier league match here on Monday.
Mumbai Indians have won seven of their nine games so far.
The form of opener Parthiv Patel, who scored a 70 against Gujarat lions, will please the Mumbai Indians management.
Parthiv will like to continue from where he left in the last game and he, along with Englishman Jos Buttler, would like to give the team a flying start.
They would except their batters Patel, Buttler, skipper Rohit Sharma, Nitesh Rana and the Pandya brothers — Krunal and Hardik — to fire in unison.
The biggest positive for Mumbai has been their death overs bowling, courtesy Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya.
Krunal and seasoned off spinner Harbhajan Singh have been effective.
For RCB, their batters, some of the best in the world on paper, have failed miserably in this tournament.
But if RCB have to score big on a batting-friendly Wankhede pitch, the likes of Chris Gayle, Shane Watson, Kohli, A B de Villiers and Kedar Jadhav will need to fire in unison, which hasn't happened so far.
The RCB would also need their key spinner Samuel Badree to execute his plans well to stop the formidable Mumbai line- up.