{"id":9919,"date":"2026-04-07T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9919"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:48:00","slug":"130091860-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9919","title":{"rendered":"Hardik Pandya, Trent Boult back as MI bowl first vs RR in 11-over match &#8211; check full playing XI | Cricket News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130091832,imgsize-45152,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/mmn-51.jpg\" alt=\"Hardik Pandya, Trent Boult back as MI bowl first vs RR in 11-over match - check full playing XI\" title=\"Hardik Pandya\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya won the toss, and opted to field against Rajasthan Royals in Guwahati on Tuesday. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/>For the Mumbai Indians, captain Hardik Pandya, who missed the last match against Delhi Capitals, and Trent Boult came back into the side. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>While the Rajasthan Royals went with the same team. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>It will be a 11-over game. Powerplay will be 3.2 overs.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>&#8220;We are going to bowl first. It has been under covers, in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rain\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">rain<\/a>-effected games you should bat second. It just gives you a clear idea what total should be. (Is it because there&#8217;s been rain and there will be more rain and it&#8217;s a truncated game that he opted to bowl?) Yes, that has always been at the back of the mind. It is just the start of the season and we are bound to make mistakes; you don&#8217;t win IPL in the first couple of weeks. <!-- -->I come back, Boulty is back,&#8221; Hardik Pandya said at the toss.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>While RR skipper Riyan Parag said, &#8220;We would have done the same thing (bowling first), actually. It (pitch) was supposed to be dry, but then it rained a lot. It is what it is. We have had two different types of games, but really happy with how the boys handled the pressure. Same team for us.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Teams<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel(w), Riyan Parag(c), Shimron Hetmyer, Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Jofra Archer, Nandre Burger, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton(w), Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya(c), Naman Dhir, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, AM Ghazanfar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/top-stories\/hardik-pandya-trent-boult-back-as-mi-bowl-first-vs-rr-in-11-over-match-check-full-playing-xi\/articleshow\/130091860.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya won the toss, and opted to field against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24750,22568,24751,24752,24753],"class_list":["post-9919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mi","tag-rain","tag-rr","tag-rr-mi","tag-rr-vs-mi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}