IPL 2017, GL vs MI: 5 winning factors

#5 Mumbai’s death overs mastery

Bumrah has been deadly at the death

MI can boast of the best death overs bowlers in the IPL. Jasprit Bumrah, currently, is easily the best in the world in the limited-overs format in the final overs of an innings. Malinga, in this aspect, is an undisputed legend, and McCleneghan has this happy knack of picking up crucial wickets towards the end of an innings to derail any opposition.

Mumbai Indians have successfully managed to choke their opponents in the last 4-5 overs of the innings consistently, courtesy their immensely skilful death overs bowlers. To counter this, the GL batsmen will have to take extra risks from overs 7 to 15 as scoring 50 off the last 5 might not be as straight-forward as it generally is in T20s against most teams.

MI’s death overs bowling, especially if GL are chasing a score set by them, will be crucial in the final outcome of this match.