Under pressure post Steve Smith's blitzkrieg, Mumbai Indians will be fretting over their team combination as they take on a marauding Kolkata Knight Riders on Sunday.
The MI team management may be forced to make a couple of changes to bolster the bowling attack which suffered because of Kieron Pollard forced to bowl the final over where Steve Smith hit the big West Indian for two sixes. In these circumstances, lasith Malinga, fresh from a T20 hat-trick may replace Tim Southee in the bowling attack and the seasoned Harbhajan Singh after a baffling exclusion may come in place of Krunal Pandya, who was ordinary to say the least.
Rohit Sharma may be worried about KKR's swashbuckling opener Chris lynn who smashed his way to an unbeaten 93 off only 41 balls.
Quite a few Mumbai batsmen got starts against Pune but failed to carry on. Their top order, including captain Rohit Sharma, floundered againt South African leggie Imran Tahir, failing to read his googlies.
KKR too have handy wrist spinners in experienced Piyush Chawla and chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav to call upon and exploit any perceived weakness in the MI's top order. Pandya's is known for his batting exploits but purely on bowling skills, one of India's finest spinner is still miles ahead.
KKR too will have Bangladesh skipper and all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan in their ranks giving them another quality option.
The Shah Rukh Khan co-owned side have a formidable batting line-up which should find the Wankhede track, rated the best in successive years, an ideal one to express themselves. In fact vice-captain Suryakumar Yadav has scored most of his domestic runs at this ground. In spin department, KKR appear to have an edge over MI who appear to possess a superior pace bowling arsenal with Malinga and McCleanaghan and Southee and Mitchell Johnson to call upon, apart from Indians Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya.