Why are Piyush Chawla and Cameron Green not playing Match 25 of IPL 2024 between MI and RCB?

The Mumbai Indians are taking on the Royal Challengers Bengaluru in Match 25 of the Indian Premier League at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. Hardik Pandya-led MI won the toss and elected to bowl first. 

Coming into the game on the back of their first win of the season, the home team made one change to their lineup, with Shreyas Gopal coming into the mix replacing Piyush Chawla.

As far as the visitors are concerned, they made three changes to their XI, who were inflicted their fourth loss of the season at the hands of the Rajasthan Royals.

Chawla, who has been uncharacteristically expensive this season, scalping just a couple of wickets in the four games he's featured in, going at an economy of 11.50, made way for Gopal. 

The spinner will be playing his first IPL game in a couple of years' time, going unsold in the previous edition of the IPL.

Meanwhile, Green missed out for the visitors, with the new recruit having had a really lukewarm season according to his grand standards so far, only managing to scamper to a tally of 68 runs in five games for RCB.

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Two other changes for RCB with Lomror and Vyshak back 

Other than Jacks getting his break for the Bengaluru-based franchise, Mahipal Lomror and Vijaykumar Vyshak made their way back into the XI, with both of them being on the list of the Impact Substitutes in their previous encounter against RR. None of them got a chance to come on during the entirety of the game.

Lomror and Vyshak come in for Mayank Dagar and Yash Dayal, respectively, with the left-arm bowlers being expensive with the ball at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in RCB's six-wicket loss to RR.

Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wk), Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya (c), Tim David,  Romario Shepherd, Mohammad Nabi, Shreyas Gopal, Jasprit Bumrah, Gerald Coetzee, Akash Madhwal

Mumbai Indians (Impact Substitutes): Suryakumar Yadav, Dewald Brevis, Naman Dhir, Nehal Wadhera, Harvik Desai

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Playing XI): Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Mahipal Lomror, Reece Topley, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj 

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Impact Substitutes): Suyash Prabhudessai, Saurav Chauhan, Swapnil Singh, Rajan Kumar, Karn Sharma

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