Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings: Strongest Playing 11 of both teams, Dhoni will be seen challenging Hardik

Mumbai Indians will face Chennai Super Kings on their home ground in the 38th league match of IPL 2025. For the first time this season, CSK will take the field against Mumbai under the captaincy of MS Dhoni.

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MI vs CSK Playing 11 Prediction

The command of Chennai Super Kings is now in the hands of MS Dhoni and in the last league match, he defeated Lucknow on their home ground. CSK's morale will be high after the victory in the last match. At the same time, a match has been played between CSK and Mumbai in this season in which Hardik Pandya 's team was defeated. That means CSK will be eyeing victory in this match as well. By the way, Mumbai played its last match against Hyderabad at Wankhede and won that match by 4 wickets.

MS Dhoni is seen in a different rhythm after becoming the captain of CSK. He performed brilliantly behind the stumps against Lucknow. After this, he batted well while finishing the match and is playing brilliantly. However, Dhoni was seen struggling with his knee injury after the last match and this can become a problem for him. Talking about Mumbai, Will Jacks' all-round performance against Hyderabad was quite impressive.

MI Playing 11 Prediction 

The position of Chennai Super Kings in the points table is not good at all because this team is currently in the 10th position with 4 points. CSK has won 2 out of the 7 matches played so far and has lost 5 matches. Mumbai is in a better position right now and this team has won 3 out of 7 matches and lost 4 matches. MI have 6 points and this team is currently in the 7th position in the overall standings.

CSK Playing 11 Prediction

Mumbai had preferred a slow pitch to stop Hyderabad in the last match, but CSK's batsmen are not that explosive. However, this team has players like Rachin, so Bumrah can be effective in stopping him. Mumbai also has explosive batsmen like Rohit, so Dhoni will try to stop them as quickly as possible. Batsmen like Suryakumar, Tilak Verma, Ryan Rickelton can prove to be fatal for CSK.
These are the probable playing XI of Mumbai Indians (MI) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK)

CSK Probable XII- Sheik Rasheed, Rachin Ravindra, Rahul Tripathi, Shivam Dube, Vijay Shankar, Ravindra Jadeja, Jamie Overton, MS Dhoni (Captain and wicketkeeper), Anshul Kamboj, Noor Ahmed, Khaleel Ahmed and Mathisha Pathirana.

Mumbai's Probable XII: Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton (WK), Will Jacks, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya (Captain), Naman Dhir, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah and Vignesh Puthur.

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