{"id":47630,"date":"2026-04-07T21:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=47630"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:32:29","slug":"ipl-2026-rr-vs-mi-live-hardik-pandya-explains-decision-to-bowl-first-citing-rain-impact-on-pitch-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-rr-vs-mi-live-hardik-pandya-explains-decision-to-bowl-first-citing-rain-impact-on-pitch-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 RR vs MI Live: Hardik Pandya explains decision to bowl first, citing rain impact on pitch conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai Indians have won the toss and have opted to field<\/p>\n<p><b>Hardik Pandya:<\/b> We are going to bowl first. It has been under covers, in rain effected games you should bat second. That has always been back of the mind.<\/p>\n<p><b>Riyan Parag:<\/b>\u00a0We would have done the same thing actually. It was supposed to be dry but then it rained a lot. It is what it is. We have had two different types of games, but really happy with how the boys handled the pressure. Same team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pitch Report:<\/strong> The black-soil pitch has been well prepared and should be good for batting, offering a consistent surface. However, it may be slightly slower than previous games, with spinners likely to get some help as the match goes on.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"cm-b-roundcard flex-coloum\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"cm-b-roundcard flex-coloum\">\n<div><span class=\"cm-b-comment-c2\"><b><u>Mumbai Indians Playing XI:<\/u><\/b>\u00a0Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton (wk), Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya (c), Suryakumar Yadav, Naman Dhir, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"cm-b-roundcard flex-coloum\">\n<div><span class=\"cm-b-comment-c2\"><b><u>Rajasthan Royals Playing XI<\/u><\/b>: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Riyan Parag (c), Shimron Hetmyer, Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Jofra Archer, Nandre Burger, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cm-b-comment-c2\"><b><u>Impact Substitutes<\/u><\/b>:<\/p>\n<p><b>Rajasthan Royals<\/b>: Shubham Dubey, Ravi Bishnoi, Brijesh Sharma, Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Ravi Singh<\/p>\n<p><b>Mumbai Indians<\/b>: Sherfane Rutherford, Corbin Bosch, Robin Minz, Ashwani Kumar, Raj Angad Bawa<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai Indians have won the toss and have opted to field Hardik Pandya: We are going to bowl first. It\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":47625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47633,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47630\/revisions\/47633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}