MI vs KKR, IPL 2018: Dinesh Karthik win toss, elect to field first against Mumbai Indians; here's the final playing eleven

The Dinesh Karthik-led Kolkata Knight Riders win the toss and elect to bowl first against Rohit Sharma led Mumbai Indians.

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Mumbai Indians is one of the struggling team who has won three matches and lifted itself to the fifth position. Well, Defending champions Mumbai Indians are fully focused to win this match and keeps their hopes alive of making it to the play-offs. Speaking about KKR they have been doing good in the season and seems to be in full boost to snatch match and take the team up on the ranking list.

The Mumbai Indians had a thrilling win on Friday against Kings XI Punjab giving some hopes to their fans. Both the team captains look positive and all set to win the match. Looks a good wicket. Will stay the same. We have been chasing well. They (seamers) are slowly improving, which is grating. Senior members like Mitch Johnson are leading the way. (When asked about the under-19 players) It's their journey. It's omportant they do it their way. I'm just empowering them to take their own decisions, said Dinesh Arthik. The team has two changes - Nitish Rana comes in for Rinku. Mavi is injured and he is replaced by Prasidh Krishna.

It's pretty simple for us. We need to bat, post a challenging total and then see what we can do with the ball. Every game is different. Every new day brings a new challenge. What they have done in the past doesn't matter. It's a fresh day, you have to be good on that particular day. We have to see how we improve. We have to work hard and try to win the little moments. We are playing with the same team, said Rohit Sharma

Here's the playing eleven of both the team.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Robin Uthappa, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik(w/c), Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla, Mitchell Johnson, Prasidh Krishna, Kuldeep Yadav

Mumbai Indians: Suryakumar Yadav, Evin Lewis, Ishan Kishan(w), Rohit Sharma(c), Jean-Paul Duminy, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Ben Cutting, Mitchell McClenaghan, Mayank Markande, Jasprit Bumrah