{"id":584792,"date":"2026-04-04T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584792\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:26:10","slug":"unchanged-dc-bowl-mi-make-three-changes-with-hardik-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584792\/","title":{"rendered":"Unchanged DC bowl; MI make three changes with Hardik out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toss Delhi Capitals chose to bowl vs Mumbai Indians<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/delhi-capitals-335975\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Delhi Capitals (DC)<\/a> captain Axar Patel won the toss and opted to bowl first against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/mumbai-indians-335978\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mumbai Indians (MI)<\/a> at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>For MI, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/suryakumar-yadav-446507\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Suryakumar Yadav<\/a> came out for the toss, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/hardik-pandya-625371\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hardik Pandya<\/a> unwell and sitting out this game.<\/p>\n<p>Suryakumar said the toss was &#8220;irrelevant&#8221; as DC wanted to bowl first and MI wanted to bat first.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/cricket\/series\/8048\/preview\/1527681\/delhi-capitals-vs-mumbai-indians-8th-match-8048\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1487590_1296x1296.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/cricket\/story\/_\/id\/48378183\/ipl-2026-mitchell-santner-joins-mumbai-indians-squad-line-play-delhi-capitals\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1477312_1296x1296.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Hardik&#8217;s absence forced a couple of changes. Corbin Bosch and Deepak Chahar came in, with Trent Boult vacating the second spot. Mitchell Santner, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/story\/ipl-2026-mitchell-santner-joins-mumbai-indians-squad-in-line-to-play-against-delhi-capitals-1530198\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joined the squad<\/a>, replaced AM Ghazanfar in an expected change.<\/p>\n<p>The match is being played on pitch No. 6, a black-soil surface. It&#8217;s the same pitch where Sunrisers Hyderabad posted 278 for 3 against Kolkata Knight Riders last year. The square boundaries are 60 and 67 metres. The straight boundary is 73 metres.<\/p>\n<p>Delhi Capitals XI: 1 KL Rahul (wk), 2 Pathum Nissanka, 3 Nitish Rana, 4 Vipraj Nigam, 5 Axar Patel (capt), 6 David Miller, 7 Tristan Stubbs, 8 Kuldeep Yadav, 9 Lungi Ngidi, 10 T Natarajan, 11 Mukesh Kumar<\/p>\n<p>Impact Player options: Ashutosh Sharma, Auqib Nabi, Sameer Rizvi, Dushmantha Chameera, Karun Nair<\/p>\n<p>Mumbai Indians XI: 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Ryan RIckelton (wk), 3 Tilak Varma, 4 Suryakumar Yadav (capt), 5 Naman Dhir, 6 Sherfane Rutherford, 7 Mitchell Santner, 8 Corbin Bosch, 9 Shardul Thakur, 10 Deepak Chahar, 11 Jasprit Bumrah<\/p>\n<p>Impact Player options: Mayank Markande, Robin Minz, Raj Bawa, Trent Boult, Ashwani Kumar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toss Delhi Capitals chose to bowl vs Mumbai Indians Delhi Capitals (DC) captain Axar Patel won the toss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-584792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}