Having lost their closely-contested matches on Thursday night, both Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians would be eager to be back in winning ways, as they meet each other at Johannesburg tomorrow.

A victory would mean Chennai sealing their berth in the last four, while Mumbai Indians languishing at the bottom half of the table needs a win to stay in contention for a semifinal berth.

Interestingly both the teams have a good bowling lineup restricting their opponents to moderate scores. But their weak link is batting. The middle order in both Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians still to play to their potential at this tournament.

Chennai captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni expressed his confidence that they would bounce back. He said that the Super Kings’ main problem is laid-back fielding. ‘Our fielding has been suspect in the tournament so far’.

‘You have to be fast and agile in the field. We have been a safe fielding side but not a brilliant one’ . After their two run defeat over Rajasthan Royals, Mumbai Indians skipper Sachin Tendulkar said, ‘I just felt that there was bit of panic in the end and that cost us the game’.
‘Hopefully we play well in remaining matches’, he added.

Watch Out for:

M S Dhoni : The cool operator is keen to play a big innings tomorrow. He might promote himself in the batting order and stay till the end to help Chennai reach a decent score. Duminy: The mercurial South African player is a brilliant batsman having scored four half-centuries already in IPL II.

Teams (Likely):

Chennai Super Kings: M Vijay, Matthew Hayden, MS Dhoni (capt/wk), Suresh Raina, Albie Morkel, Jacob Oram, S Badrinath, Sudeep Tyagi, Shadab Jakati, L Balaji, Muttiah Muralitharan, George Bailey, MS Gony, Joginer Sharma.

Mumbai Indians: Sanath Jayasuriya, Sachin Tendulkar (capt), JP Duminy, Dwayne Bravo, Abhishek Nayar, Ajinkya Rahane, Harbhajan Singh, Yogesh Takawale (wk), Rohan Raje, Dhawal Kulkarni, Lasith Malinga, Pinal Shah (wk), Luke Ronchi, Chetanya Nanda, Zaheer Khan.