MI vs LSG Prediction: Jacks could come up trumps

The Mumbai Indians have been crowned champions of the Indian Premier League on five occasions, but the joint-most successful team in the tournament's history have it all to do in their quest for a sixth title.

Mumbai have won just two of their first nine matches but they will be hopeful of kick-starting a late-season resurgence with a home win over the only team below them in the standings, the Lucknow Super Giants.

MI vs LSG Odds

The Mumbai Indians are 8/11 to win for only the third time in this season's Indian Premier League, while Lucknow Super Giants are 11/10 to snap a five-game losing run.

Mumbai Indians opener Ryan Rickelton scored an unbeaten century in his last game at the Wankhede Stadium and is 3/1 to top-score for the hosts again.

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Krish Bhagat came in for Ashwani Kumar for Mumbai's defeat to Chennai and could keep his place.

India T20 captain Suryakumar Yadav is enduring a lean run and his place could come under threat.

Lucknow's Australia international Josh Inglis is available for the first time. He could replace West Indian Nicholas Pooran, who has scored just 82 runs in the Super Giants' eight games.

Will Jacks top Mumbai Indians batter @ 4/1

South Africa international Ryan Rickelton was the star of the show the last time the Mumbai Indians ran out at the Wankhede Stadium, smashing an unbeaten 123 in a losing cause.

Rickelton has blown hot and cold throughout the tournament - he has made three single-figure scores - and his opening partner, Will Jacks, could be a safer play in the top Mumbai runscorer market.

Jacks scored just one in Saturday's eight-wicket defeat to Chennai but he made 46 as Rickelton took centre stage against Hyderabad last Wednesday and he was a reliable contributor with the bat for England at this year's T20 World Cup.

The Surrey man scored 226 runs, including knocks of 39 not out and 35 at the Wankhede, and picked up four man-of-the-match awards at the World Cup.

He clearly likes the batting surface at the Mumbai venue and could weigh in with another valuable contribution.

Mumbai Indians to hit most match sixes @ 8/11

Mumbai's struggles in this season's IPL are more to do with a lack of potency with the ball than anything to do with their runscoring capabilities.

Three Mumbai players - Rickelton, Quinton de Kock and Tilak Varma - have already posted centuries and as a team the Indians have scored at least 190 runs in an innings on five occasions.

Mumbai's players have hit 83 sixes in nine matches at a shade over nine per game, whereas Lucknow's 53 in eight outings have come at a rate of 6.6 per match.

Take the hosts to clear the ropes at the Wankhede with greater regularity than the Super Giants.

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