The cricket fans are ready to witness yet another big battle of the Indian Premier League. The 1st Match of IPL T20 is scheduled to play between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore on Friday, 9th April 2021 at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. We are posting safe, accurate, and 100% secure today match prediction for all matches of IPL T20 free.

We know that Mumbai Indians the most successful team of the Indian Premier League and they have five titles to their name. They are also the defending champions and a lot of cricket predictors are sure that Mumbai Indians have the capability to defend their title. In the previous two seasons, Mumbai Indians have the record of winning 70% of their matches now, they have a very strong squad as compared to the previous seasons. Mumbai Indians have six key stars from the national team of India. Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, and Ishan Kishan are the Indian stars in the squad of Mumbai Indians. Kieron Pollard and Quinton de Kock add extra strength to Mumbai Indians.

The batting order of Mumbai Indians looks very strong right now. Rohit Sharma will be leading the batting department with Quinton de Kock and these two batters will open the batting inning of Mumbai Indians. Quinton de Kock had recently performed well against Pakistan in the ODI series and had scored 80 runs in the last match he played. Rohit Sharma is also in good form nowadays. Hardik Pandya and Kieron Pollard can hit the ball very hard and they have the ability to score many runs in the last overs. Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav can handle the batting inning in the middle overs. Mumbai Indias also have a strong bowling department to defend the targets. Jasprit Bumrah, Krunal Pandya, and Rahul Chahar are very good bowlers of the T20 format of cricket. Kieron Pollard is the third-highest wicket-taker in the history of IPL and has the ability to take wickets in the middle overs. Trent Boult, Nathan Coulter-Nile, and Adam Milne are also available to help the bowling unit. Overall, Mumbai Indians is a strong side and we will have interesting matches to watch.

Royal Challengers Bangalore had struggled in almost all seasons of the Indian Premier League but their performances were better in the previous season where they qualified for the playoff matches. They were beaten by Sunrisers Hyderabad in the eliminator match. Royal Challengers Bangalore failed to have a balanced squad in the previous season and we don’t think that they have a valued squad for this season. Once again, Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers have a lot of responsibility on their shoulders. They will have to lead the batting order otherwise, they can face a lot of problems. Virat Kohli has to find some consistent performers. Devdutt Padikkal performed well in the previous season and also had given the best performance in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. We are not sure that he will be part of the final playing eleven for this match because he found COVID positive.

The skipper, Virat Kohli had said earlier that he will open the batting in this tournament. In this case, Aaron Finch will not be missed very much. Glenn Maxwell is also available to bat in the middle overs but we think that RCB needs an Indian batter to maintain the balance of the batting order. Daniel Sam and Daniel Christian are available for the selection and this adds some extra hope for the batting order. There are also some weaknesses in the bowling department of Royal Challengers Bangalore. Navdeep Saini, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammad Siraj, and Washington Sundar have to handle the bowling unit of RCB. It will be interesting to see how the bowling unit of Royal Challengers Bangalore handles the strong batting orders of other teams.

Mumbai Indians had faced Royal Challengers Bangalore in 29 matches where Mumbai won 19 while Bangalore had won 10 matches overall. If we talk about lats ten matches, Mumbai Indians had won eight while Royal Challengers Bangalore had won just two matches.

Mumbai Indians had won four out of five most recent matches played while Royal Challengers Bangalore had lost all five recently played matches.

Mumbai Indians is the most successful team of IPL and are also defending champions. The batting and bowling squad of this team is much stronger as compared to the Royal Challengers Bangalore at least on papers. According to our today prediction, Mumbai Indians is the favorite team who will win this match. There are many factors that make Mumbai Indians a favorite team to win this match. Some of the key factors are mentioned as under:

• Mumbai Indians is overall strong and experienced team than Royal Challengers Bangalore
• The record of Mumbai Indians is better against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the past
• Mumbai Indians had won three out of four most recent matches against RCB
• Royal Challengers Bangalore has a batting lineup but weak in the bowling unit
• Mumbai Indians have depth in the batting and bowling

Mumbai Indians is full of experienced and young players of the t20 format. The batting order of this team is also strong and some well-known hitter of t20 format is part of the squad of this team, so the winning chances of today match for Mumbai Indians have been increased. The equation of who will win today cricket match prediction and who will win the cricket match today is mentioned as under.

Mumbai Indians have 56% chances to win this match
Royal Challengers Bangalore has 44% chances to win this match

The toss is going to play an important in the result of each and every match of IPL T20 as we had observed in the previous editions. According to our toss prediction, the team who will win the toss will elect to field first as defending had been difficult in the most recent matches of IPL. Field first teams had won 53% of matches while batting first teams had won 47% of IPL matches played at the MA Chidambaram Stadium.

The 1st Match of the Indian Premier League is going to be held at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. We had observed in the previous matches played here that the pitch here at this venue is good for batting in early overs. The track is slower than the others we have seen and helps the spinners quite a bit. We are hoping that the surface is bound to get slower and be a bit more difficult for batting in the last overs this match. A score of 170 plus is going to be tough to chase.

The weather forecast of Chennai is good for this cricket match. There are almost no chances of rain in the region and we are hopeful that we will have a full match to enjoy.

Dream11 fantasy team lineup prediction for Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore 1st Match IPL 2021. After checking the latest player’s availability, which players will be part of both teams, the possible tactics that the two teams might use as we had learned from previous seasons of the Indian Premier League to make the best possible Dream11 team.

Date: Friday, 9th April 2021
Time: 02:00 PM GMT / 07:30 PM LOCAL / 07:30 PM IST

Stadium: MA Chidambaram Stadium
Location: Chennai, India
Capacity: 50000
Known as: Chepauk; Madras Cricket Club Ground
Ends: Anna Pavilion End, V Pattabhiraman Gate End
Time Zone: UTC +05:30
Home to: Tamil Nadu, Chennai Super Kings
Floodlights: Yes

Rohit Sharma, Aditya Tare, Anmolpreet Singh, Anukul Roy, Dhawal Kulkarni, Hardik Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Jasprit Bumrah, Jayant Yadav, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Quinton de Kock, Rahul Chahar, Suryakumar Yadav, Chris Lynn, Mohsin Khan, Saurabh Tiwary, Trent Boult, Adam Milne, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Piyush Chawla, James Neeshan, Yudhvir Charak, Marco Jansen, Arjun Tendulkar.