Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings appear for DY exam!

In the blue corner will be fivetime IPL champions Mumbai Indians winless thus far in the 15th edition of the T20 league In the yellow corner will stand fourtime titlists and defending champions Chennai Super Kings also struggling in IPL15 with one victory from six gamesWhen these two teams have met in the past sparks always flewThings will be no different when they meet each other at the DY Patil Stadium on Thursday in what MI team member Jaydev Unadkat termed on Wednesday as ldquoEl Clasicordquo of the IPLNeither team can afford to lose this contest especially MI as another defeat would shatter their waferthin hopes of making it to the fourteam playoffsldquoEvery one of us knows these are the two most successful franchises in the IPL The kind of legacy that they have now in this tournament is what has made this tournament specialrdquo said Unadkat on the eve of the matchldquoThey have both contributed towards making IPL what IPL is I havenrsquot been a part of it till now but from the outside perspective as well itrsquos probably the El Clasico of the IPL To be a part of that clash would be something to look forward tordquo the leftarm pacer explainedlsquoIt will be a good contestrsquoldquoAnd because both teams have struggled in the tournament so far I think both teams are going to come hard And from our side Irsquom going to say for sure wersquore going to come hard and itrsquos going to be a good contest So really looking forward to itrdquo added the Saurashtra player who has grabbed three wickets this season Unadkat said his team was looking at the challenge lying just ahead and not focusing on the distant futureldquoAt the moment therersquos no point of looking at the bigger picture to be honest The stage that we are in we are just looking to put some things right the missing pieces right firstrdquo Unadkat saidldquoWe are looking to just to get off the mark Once we do that the other things follow So for now rather than looking at the bigger picture and looking at lsquowe have to win eight out of eightrsquo or something like that itrsquos about winning that first gamerdquo he addedOnus on Rohit to fireOne of MIrsquos main problems is that their captain and opener Rohit Sharma has not fired as only he can indicated by his tally of 114 runs at an average of 19 per knockIshan Kishan the costliest buy at the mega playersrsquo auction at Rs 1525 crore has tapered off after blazing his way to 81 not out against Delhi Capitals in their lungopener Big West Indian Kieron Pollard has not recaptured his form of old which saw him bludgeoning opposition bowling and closing out games which looked beyond the teamrsquos reachesThe newcomers like Tilak Verma and David Brevis have shone briefly and it has been left to Suryakumar Yadav to come to the fore and hold the batting after missing the first two gamesIn bowling too Jasprit Bumrah has been economical but not penetrative enough while Tymal Mills and Basil Thampi have leaked runs aplenty Legspinner Murugan Ashwin has been their highest wickettaker with six victims to his creditCSK too have been stuttering along with the lone victory at this venue on April 12 over Royal Challengers Bangalore looking more like a flash in the pan That win over RCB came on the strength of the blistering knocks by Robin Uthappa and Shivam Dube before CSK slumped to their fifth defeat against Gujarat on April 17CSKrsquos bowlers too have not risen to the occasion as much as they would have expected