The five-time IPL champions Mumbai Indians are going to take on Gujarat Titans which commences tomorrow evening at 7.30 pm at Narendra Modi Stadium. Both the teams have bought equivalent players who can be match-winners for their franchises. Mumbai Indians have a wide range of popularity and their players have been devotees to their fans. Though Mi recent years have been very dreadful facing the transition phase or to be called a bad tenure. 
Gujarat Titans who had formed in 2021 impressed the audience with their first season itself where they won their first title in 2022. Gujarat has played some exceptional cricket over the years but after the season of 2023, they too had some backlash that deteriorated the team to begin from the start. Where their captain Hardik Pandya moved to Mumbai making Subhman Gill the captaincy candidate. 

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Mumbai And Gujarat On Same Road

Mumbai India had a great tenure of 6 years, where Rohit Sharma took on the captaincy of the franchise and won the title at his first attempt which showed how much potential he possesses as a captain. It was the peak rise of Mumbai Indians from the past few years of a bad patch. Soon they became the dominating force and won the title in 2015,2017,2019 and 2020 too. But after that, the Mumbai Indians team had a huge turnover in the next season where they weren't able to qualify for playoffs.
 Rohit Sharma in and off form struggled in his captaincy too. Later in both seasons, Mi were out of the league stage itself, which forced the management to have in change of captaincy where they bought Hardik Pandya with his exceptional season with GT. After Pandya's departure,tureto too many problems in team building. Though acquiring Hardik Pandya Mumbai's problems didn't have its end. It got worse a lot more around their upcoming season. 
Start With A Defying Loss

Mumbai Indian's first encounter was against their rival giants Chennai Super Kings where they won the match by 4 wickets and Mi lost their first match. The same situation with Gujarat too where they faced Punjab Kings in their opening encounter. Gujarat won the toss and elected to field first and Punjab poised the score of 243, where in chase Gujarat had its moment but lost the match by 11 runs. 
Both the teams lost their first match even though Hardik Pandya will be back to his after his completion of a one-match ban. It will be a fiery contrast between the two teams who would like to get back into winning ways. 

Mumbai Indians Playing 11
Rohit Sharma
Ryan Rickelton
Will Jacks
Surya Kumar Yadav
Tilak Verma
Naman Dhir
Hardik Pandya(C) 
Mitchell Santner
Deepak Chahar
Trent Boult
Vignesh Puthur
Impact Player - Mustafizur Rahman