After 56 league matches and three play-off matches, it has finally come down to a final match to determine the 2020 IPL champions. Four-time IPL champions, the majority, the Mumbai Indians will face the Delhi Capitals, who they have qualified in the summit clash for the first time, in the final of the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League in Dubai on Tuesday.
Here are 7 cool facts about the Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Capitals IPL 2020 Final that you might not know about. (Total IPL Coverage 2020)
1) It will be a battle between the IPL’s most successful captain, Rohit Sharma, who has won four titles, and the youngest captain, Shreyas Iyer.
2) Only 3 times the table topper from the league stage has ended up winning the IPL. And the only team that has done it since the introduction of the playoffs is Mumbai Indians, that too twice.
3) Shreyas Iyer will become the youngest captain to lead a team to the IPL final. Rohit Sharma is currently the youngest captain to win the IPL. He had led MI to his first IPL title in 2013.
4) Shreyas Iyer is the first Mumbai-born cricketer to be the captain against Mumbai in an IPL final.
5) The opposite of this has happened twice when Kumble captained the RCB to the final in 2009 and Sachin Tendulkar led the MI team to the final in 2010.
6) Rohit Sharma in 2013 and Shreyas Iyer in 2020 are the only Indian players who led their IPL team to the final without having been international cricket captains. Rohit in 2013 and Iyer in 2020 had represented India in ODI and T20I, but not in Testing.
7) In the current Delhi Capitals squad there are 3 players who were previously part of the IPL champion squad: Shikhar Dhawan (SRH in 2016), Ravichandran Ashwin (CSK in 2010 and 2011) and Axar Patel (IM in 2013).
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