Former India player Aakash Chopra has said that an unstable opening combination is one of the Delhi Capitals’ (DC) issues heading into their upcoming match against the Mumbai Indians (MI). However, he added that they will likely persist with KL Rahul and Faf du Plessis as their two openers.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra’, he said, “Delhi’s problems are different. They have already tried seven opening combinations. It seems like KL Rahul will only open with Faf du Plessis now, and KL Rahul likes this ground a lot, and he also likes batting against Mumbai. He has scored a lot of runs at this ground.”

“However, he might have definitely thought after the last match that he scored a hundred, but it didn’t help the team win. So he might try to score even faster because runs weren’t scored in the first five overs of the last match. The GT bowlers had kept them totally tied,” he again shared.

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Meanwhile, Aakash Chopra also shared that the other Delhi Capitals batters also need to bat aggressively, especially if they want to set a huge target.

“They will expect runs from Rahul, but along with that, another thing happened that day. Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel and Axar Patel together scored 60 runs off 45 balls. It won’t work out like that. You will have to hit as much from the other end. I feel that if they get to bat first, Delhi should go for the jugular,” he said.

“Delhi should start hitting and not stop at all because you have such a lengthy batting lineup. So send everyone because, in the end, you scored 199 and had lost only three wickets, which means you scored less runs, and they were less only. You lost the match by 10 wickets,” Aakash Chopra concluded.