While Mumbai will have been pleased to win on Friday it will be a hectic schedule to them to get to Hyderabad and prepare for this final and unlike the Supergiant, they do have work to do if they are to win this match. They won the match but a repeat of that performance won’t be enough. It took the table topping Mumbai Indians two goes to make it through to this final but at least they head into it with a bit of momentum behind them although even their victory against the Kolkata Knight Riders in the second qualifier had plenty of issues about it.
If the Pune batsmen deliver in this match they have every chance. In each of the last two matches between the two the Mumbai Indians batsmen have had no answer to the changes of pace and the disguise that Rising Pune have produced. One of the reasons for that is the mystery and the craft in their bowling attack. It might be that they don’t need to do anything differently in preparation for the game as they have won all three meetings with the Mumbai Indians this season. The side who finished second in the regular season table took their first chance at making this final and as such they have had five days to get to Hyderabad and prepare properly for this match.
The Supergiant will be looking for their first and only title in their final match in existence while the Mumbai Indians will be out to seal a third title in ten years but if they are to be champions again they will have to reverse a trend which sees no table topping side winning the title since the opening season. The final of the tournament on Sunday will see the top two in the regular season meeting when the Rising Pune Supergiant take on the Mumbai Indians in Hyderabad.
Six weeks after it began and 59 matches later the champions of the tenth Indian Premier League season is ready to be crowned.
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