Mumbai Indians IPL2018 team ideal playing 11:

Openers: Ishan Kishen, Evin Lewis.

Middle Order: Suryakumar Yadav, Rohit Sharma.

All-rounders: Krunal Pandya, Keiron Pollard, Hardik Pandya.

Bowlers: Rahul Chahar, Mustafizur Rahman, Pat Cummins, Jasprit Bumrah.

Alternatively:

Pat Cummins sits out. MI play only 3 specialist bowlers, play Duminy as an extra batsman and use Hardik, Krunal & Pollard to make up 8 overs.

Aditya Tare may replace Ishan Kishen. Whether he opens or swaps his place with Rohit Sharma is to be seen.

2 out of Akila Dhananjaya / Anukul Roy / Pradeep Sangwan may replace Rahul Chahar / Pat Cummins.

JP Duminy remains a backup middle order batsman.

I have no idea how good Jason Behrendorff, Tajinder Dhillon, Sharad Lumba, Siddhesh Lad, Mayank Markande, Mohsin Khan, Nideesh Dinesan are.

MI has one of the strongest bowling attacks in the tournament but, while they probably let Rayudu and Bhajji go coz of their age, I really have no clue what Saurabh Tiwari is doing in the squad.