Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya has won the toss and elected to bowl first in their first IPL 2026 match against the Kolkata Knight Riders at the Wankhede Stadium. The toss took place at 07:00 pm IST, with the proceedings to start at 07:30 pm IST.
"We're gonna bowl first. It is a good track, but a bit greener. Got such a wonderful crowd, and this is our fortress. The boys had enough time to prepare for the season. Rohit, Surya and Santner are there to help me," Hardik Pandya said.
Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Ajinkya Rahane would have bowled first as well had he won the toss.
"We were looking to bowl first. I haven't seen this much grass on the pitch over here. The boys are excited as preparations have been good. It is good to start in Mumbai and looks to take off from here. We are not focusing on our record against Mumbai," he said.
Mumbai Indians: 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Ryan Rickelton* (wk), 3 Tilak Varma, 4 Hardik Pandya (capt), 5 Sherfane Rutherford*, 6 Naman Dhir, 7 Shardul Thakur 8 Mayank Markande, 9 AM Ghazanfar*, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Trent Boult*
Subs: Suryakumar Yadav, Corbin Bosch, Robin Minz, Raj Bawa, Ashwani Kumar
Kolkata Knight Riders: 1 Finn Allen*, 2 Ajinkya Rahane (capt), 3 Cameron Green*, 4 Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wk) 5 Rinku Singh, 6 Ramandeep Singh, 7 Anukul Roy, 8 Sunil Narine*, 9 Vaibhav Arora, 10 Varun Chakravarthy, 11 Blessing Muzarabani*
Subs: Manish Pandey, Tejasvi Singh, Kartik Tyagi, Saurabh Dubey, Rovman Powell
MI captain Hardik Pandya has won the toss and elected to bowl first.
The toss took place at 7:00 pm IST.
Hardik Pandya has decided to bowl first because of the green wicket.
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
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