Eagle Thane Strikers vs Aakash Tigers MWS, Mumbai Premier League, Today Match Prediction 16 May 2019

eths vs atmws Match Prediction & Analysis

Aakash Tigers had a winning start to the season with their victory against Triumph Knights in a last over thriller. Openers Kaustaub Pawar and Aakarshit Gomel set the perfect base for the chase with a 67 run partnership at the top. Their middle order kept losing wickets regularly and almost made a mockery of the chase. They won the match with 3 balls remaining and 5 wickets in hand eventually. Their bowlers led by skipper Dhawal Kulkarni restricted the opposition to below par score of just 147 runs in their 20 overs. Arjun Tendulkar and Anjdeep Lad were amongst the wickets and helped his team to control the run flow. Bhavin Thakkar may replace Miinad Manjrekar in the playing XI. 

Eagle Thane Strikers lost their first match against Northern Mumbai panthers by 6 runs in a thriller. Their Skipper Aditya Tare and Kaushik Chikhalikar scored the fifties and kept the team in the hunt for the high scoring chase. Sarfaraz Khan and Sagar Mishra got quick-fire starts but failed to stay till the end and finish the game in their favor. Their bowling unit put up a dismal show leaking 190 runs in 20 overs. Surprisingly, seven bowlers were used to bowl 20 overs and six of them got a wicket each. Ankush Jaiswal and Sagar Mishra had combined bowling figures of 8-0-48-2 and the rest of the bowlers had combined match haul of 12-0-142-4. Every bowler leaked runs at over 10 RPO and they need to tinker their bowling attack. 

TEAMS PREVIEW

Eagle Thane Strikers Preview

Key Players:

Aditya Tare – Tare showed some great fight scoring 71 runs off just 44 balls during the chase. But, the chase was halted when he got out in the penultimate over trying to increase the scoring rate.      

Sagar Mishra – Mishra was one of the two bowlers in their team to put up a decent show with bowling figures of 4-0-25-1 and to add to it he scored 22 runs off just 15 balls during the chase. 

Stats from the season:

Aditya Tare – 71 runs (4 balls), 10X4s

Ankush Jaiswal – 4-0-23-1

Eagle Thane Strikers Predicted Playing XI:

Aditya Tare (c & wk), Kaushik Chikhalikar, Aishwary Surve, Sarfaraz Khan, Alpesh Ramjani, Ankush Jaiswal, Kruthik Hanagavadi, Sachin Wagh, Sagar Mishra, Asif Shaikh, Balwinder Sandhu

Aakash Tigers MWS Preview

Key Players:

Yogesh Pawar – Pawar scored a tense 10 runs off just 5 balls in the tense finish which sealed the chase in their favor. He will be looking to make a mark this match with more game time in the middle. 

Arjun Tendulkar – Arjun comes with big baggage as the son of Master Sachin will be looking to prove his skills with both bat and ball. He scored 21 runs off 19 balls and had bowling figures of 1/21 in the first match.   

Stats from the season:

Aakarshit Gomel – 41 runs (29 balls), 4X4s, 2X6s

Anjdeep Lad - 2-0-12-2 

Aakash Tigers MWS Predicted Playing XI:

Dhawal Kulkarni (c), Kaustubh Pawar, D Subramanian (wk), Siddharth Akre, Shams Mulani, Arjun Tendulkar, Aakarshit Gomel, Yogesh Pawar, Nehal Katakdhond, Anjdeep Lad, Minad Manjrekar/Bhavin Thakkar

Weather Conditions

Wankhade is a good batting pitch where the ball comes onto the bat nicely. Fast bowlers may enjoy the pace, bounce and carry in this pitch. The average score here will be around 160-170 runs. Matchday is expected to be a sunny day with 30-35 degrees temperature.  

Toss: WIN the toss, BOWL First

Teams will look to chase down the total set by the opposition batsmen. Chasing can get easier in the evening due to wet outfield and dew factor. Dew causes trouble in gripping the ball for the bowlers and they may find it difficult to control the ball.