Rohit Sharma’s Mumbai Indians are known to promote youngsters and it shouldn’t come as a surprise if they give young hard-hitting batsman Tilak Varma, 19, a place in the playing XI for their IPL-15 opener against the Rishabh Pant-led Delhi Capitals (DC) at the Brabourne Stadium today.

Left-handed Varma, who represented Hyderabad in four first-class, 16 List A and 15 T20 games, impressed people who matter with his attacking style of batting and off-spin.