Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals in last ditch battle for playoffs

By the time Mumbai Indians step out to play their penultimate league tie against Delhi Capitals on Wednesday at home, it would have been a fortnight since their last game.

- Rasesh Mandani

MUMBAI: Remember the last ball midnight thriller which they lost to Gujarat Titans at the Wankhede?

In the interim, missiles were fired across the India-Pakistan border, IPL was suspended, Rohit Sharma called it quits in Test cricket. But here they are, back to normalcy. And straight in with an opportunity to seal the fourth playoff berth behind Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Punjab Kings and Gujarat Titans.

"It's in our control. It's a great position to be in," said Mahela Jayawardene, MI head coach. "It's better to have it in our control than anyone else's and watch that situation, we've played good cricket to deserve to be in that situation. We've had a good week's preparation and watched what the other teams were doing. We just need to go out and express ourselves and play a good game."