After the hard-fought league of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 season, Mumbai Indians (MI) and Delhi Capitals (DC) ended as the top two teams on the points table. The two teams are facing each other un Qualifier 1 on Thursday with a place in the final at stake. The defending champions dominated the league stage with nine wins.
On the other hand, the Capitals suffered losses in four consecutive games in the second half of the league stage and could only confirm their place in the playoffs with a win over Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in their last league match. As far as the match is concerned, Shreyas Iyer won the toss and asked MI to bat first.
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But soon after the play began, the fans were baffled to see the DC players wear the black armbands on the field. The commentator on air though clarified the same by informing that the pacer Mohit Sharma’s father, Mahipal Sharma, passed away. To pay the tribute to him, the Capitals wore black armbands on the field.
As far as the team combination is concerned, DC didn’t make any changes to their squad as compared to the game against RCB earlier this week. in the game having won the last match while MI including three of their top players after resting them in the previous outing. Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah, and Hardik Pandya made a comeback to the playing XI of MI to replace, Dhawal Kulkarni, Saurabh Tiwary, and James Pattinson.
This is not the first time that a player has lost someone close one during the IPL this season. Mohit Sharma must have missed being with his family in Haryana during these tough times. Earlier, even Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) cricketer Mandeep Singh had unfortunately lost his father during the league stages. At that time, the Mandeep came out to open the innings for the team and played a match-winning innings dedicating it to his father.
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Even Nitish Rana showed a wonderful gesture for his late father-in-law in one of the earlier matches after scoring a brilliant half-century. He took out a jersey with the name Surinder written on it and dedicating the knock to him.
