The second phase of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 is starting from Sunday. The opening match is expected to be a fierce competition between five-time IPL winners Mumbai Indians and thrice IPL title winners Chennai Super Kings. Mumbai Indians will be commanded by Rohit Sharma and Chennai Super Kings will be commanded by MS Dhoni. Everyone is waiting for the match between these two popular teams of IPL. Both of them will try their best to start their campaign with a win.
There are tremendous matches between these two teams in IPL. If both the teams will be face to face in Dubai today, then the records against each other will also be in their mind. Talking about the head to head matches between these two, both the teams have clashed against each other 31 times in the IPL. Mumbai Indians have had the upper hand in these matches. Mumbai has defeated Chennai 19 times while Dhoni-led CSK have won 12 times.
Talking about the last seven matches, Mumbai has won 6 matches. In the first phase of IPL 2021, when the two teams met, Mumbai Indians led by Rohit Sharma defeated Chennai Super Kings by 4 wickets. Before the postponement of the first phase of the IPL, Chennai Super Kings was at number two in the points table. Chennai won 5 out of their seven matches and lost two. On the other hand, Mumbai Indians are at the fourth position in the points table. He has won 4 in 7 matches and lost in 2. This league was postponed after the entry of Corona in the IPL biobubble. After this BCCI decided to shift it from India to UAE.
