Who's playing
Delhi Capitals (DC) vs Mumbai Indians (MI)
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, 7:30pm IST
What to expect
Both teams are on six points and occupy the top two spots on the points table. MI have now won three on the trot, and the only match they have lost this season was their opening fixture against the same opponents in Vadodara. There are a few cracks in the side - one of the main ones being Yastika Bhatia's form - but Nat Sciver-Brunt has made sure to make up for that. Be it with the bat or with the ball, she's delivered in almost all games so far and has been key in all their wins. Hayley Matthews is going through a lean patch with the bat too - her 59 off 50 against UP Warriorz was scratchy at best. But there have been others who have chimed in, especially the Indian youngsters in the side.
DC, meanwhile, have been up and down but are coming off an easy win against Gujarat Giants. Everything came together for them in that game and the move to promote Jess Jonassen to No. 3 also paid off. Their captain, Meg Lanning, however, is yet to fire this season. Before this season, she averaged 48.50 in five innings against MI in the WPL. Will Lanning find her form against one of her favourite opponents?
This contest also pits two pedigreed new-ball attacks against each other - DC's Marizanne Kapp and Shikha Pandey vs MI's Shabnim Ismail and Sciver-Brunt.
Form guide
Delhi Capitals WLW (last three matches, most recent first)
Mumbai Indians WWW
Team news
Expect DC to go in with the same line-up.
Delhi Capitals (probable XI): 1 Shafali Verma, 2 Meg Lanning (capt), 3 Jemimah Rodrigues, 4 Annabel Sutherland, 5 Marizanne Kapp, 6 Jess Jonassen, 7 Sarah Bryce (wk), 8 Niki Prasad, 9 Minnu Mani, 10 Titas Sadhu, 11 Shikha Pandey
Given Jintimani Kalita bowled just the one over in the last outing, she could be replaced by left-arm spinner Parunika Sisodia
Mumbai Indians (probable XI): 1 Hayley Matthews, 2 Yastika Bhatia (wk), 3 Nat Sciver-Brunt, 4 Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), 5 Amelia Kerr, 6 S Sajana, 7 G Kamalini, 8 Amanjot Kaur, 9 Sanskriti Gupta, 10 Shabnim Ismail, 11 Parunika Sisodia/Jintimani Kalita
Players to watch: Jess Jonassen and Sanskriti Gupta
Jess Jonassen showed her value as an allrounder in the match against Giants. Coming in at No. 3 after Lanning's dismissal, she targeted the square boundary and plundered 61 off 32 balls. She put on a 74-run stand off just 37 balls with Shafali Verma and wrapped up the match in a hurry. In the loss against UP Warriorz, too, she had contributed with the ball, finishing with figures of 4 for 31, which included the wickets of Chinelle Henry and Deepti Sharma.
Sanskriti Gupta produced a spell of 2 for 11 in her two overs against UPW, where she dismissed Tahlia McGrath and the set Vrinda Dinesh with her offspin. She varied her speeds to great effect, bowling McGrath with a 95.1kph yorker. Bought at the auction by MI for INR 10 lakh, Sanskriti was key in Madhya Pradesh's title win in the Senior Women's One Day Trophy, finishing with 16 wickets in nine games. She'll want to continue to make an impression in the MI line-up to cement her spot in the XI.
Key stats
Sciver-Brunt averages 80 from her last ten T20 innings
Lanning has only one 50-plus score in her last ten T20 games
