IPL 2018 KKR v MI: 5 player battles to look forward to between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians

#2 Robin Uthappa v Hardik Pandya

Hardik Pandya

The KKR batsman is perhaps the most important player in the team’s middle-order and although Robin Uthappa has not always been able to get the big scores this season, he has been in excellent hitting form. He is striking at 143.88 and in his last game, he got a fluent 54 against the same opponents. Tonight he would definitely like to get a bigger score and see to it that the KKR batting effort does not fall apart like it did the other day at Mumbai.

In this regard, his battle against the tournament’s second highest wicket-taker Hardik Pandya is going to be a very important one and whoever wins that particular battle would place his team in a commanding position. The Indian all-rounder returned brilliant figures of 2/19 in 4 overs in the last game and was adjudged the Man of the Match. While Pandya will be looking for an encore, it will perhaps be up to Uthappa and the rest of the KKR middle-order to ensure that he fails to do so.