Saturday night fever! It's Rohit flair vs Dhoni's acumen at Wankhede

Mumbai Indians MI and Chennai Super Kings CSK two of the most successful IPL teams with five and four title triumphs respectively will once again lock horns at the Wankhede Stadium to prove their supremacy todayMI lost their opening IPL16 game to Royal Challengers Bangalore on Sunday when except Tilak Varma all their toporder batters including skipper Rohit Sharma the attacking Suryakumar Yadav and promising Ishan Kishan failed to live up to their reputationsKieron Pollard centre conducts a practice session with MI players at Wankhede yesterday PicsAshish RajeMIrsquos bowling department managed to get only two RCB wickets as the southern franchise smashed their target score of 172 in just 162 overs MI batting coach Kieron Pollard wants all his players to fire against CSK today ldquoI believe all batters have to fire I do not think we should single out any individual Cricket is played with 11 players The tournament has just started so everyone is just looking to start on a highrdquo Pollard said during a prematch press conference on FridayWhen MI and CSK last competed against each other at the same venuemdashon May 12 2022mdashMI enjoyed the upper hand by winning a onesided affair by five wickets And coming back to their home ground Pollard is optimistic of a better result He said ldquoYes we did not get off to a great start as a batting unit but in the end we managed a decent total in Bangalore Let us see what happens since we are back at WankhederdquoAlso Read First week of IPL in nutshell MI write a slow start script again GT sit atopSurya in spotlight againLocal boy Suryakumar no stranger to big scores is struggling for momentum However Pollard is not worried about Suryakumarrsquos formldquoWe have no concerns over Suryarsquos form Again I believe you guys make more of it than we do sometimes within the team set up People have bad days and it is unfortunate our bad days are highlighted and we keep speaking on and on about it rather than trying to look at the positive or what the player has done over the past 18 months or sordquo Pollard explainedIt seems the new Impact Player rule is out of MIrsquos equation and Pollard expects every player to make an impact in the teamrsquos winldquoTo be honest I have not thought much about the Impact Player rule Lots of thoughts have been flying around about it but for me you still have to go out and play cricket impact or no impact As players you have to make an impact on the field anyway We have not put too much thought into it We are just trying to prepare for the game rather than focusing on one particular area which is the impact playerrdquo Pollard remarkedAlso Read IPL 2023 Mumbai Indians rope in Riley Meredith as replacement for Jhye RichardsonCSK coming off a good winMeanwhile CSK who lost their IPL16 opener to Gujarat Titans by five wickets in Ahmedabad on March 31 beat Lucknow Super Giants by 12 runs in Chennai later on April 3 CSK have two Mumbai boysmdashallrounder Shivam Dube and pacer Tushar Deshpande in their camp who have plenty of experience of playing at Wankhede and alongside Rohit and Suryakumar which will be advantageous for the Chennai outfitAnd the way opener Ruturaj Gaikwad who has smashed 92 and 57 is batting the Jofra Archerled MI attack has a big challenge on hand