In this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL), no team will be having the ‘home advantage’ as all teams will be playing their games at neutral venues.

According to the former India wicketkeeper-batsman Parthiv Patel, Mumbai Indians (MI) have a team that can play well on any surface and says that not playing at Wankhede won’t be much of an issue for them.

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“I don't think Mumbai Indians will be thinking of where they are playing next. All the teams would be thinking about where they are playing first and you know, try and get their best team forward, try and get their best XI on the path,” Patel said.

The left-handed batsman also believes that MI’s combination looks quite good and added that they don’t need to ‘tinker a lot with their playing XI’.

“If they are playing in Chennai, you might expect some spinner but from the Mumbai Indians' point of view, I don't think they have to tinker a lot with their playing XI," Parthiv Patel told Star Sports.

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The 36-year-old also feels that the Mumbai based franchise has a settled bowling unit as well as he said, “Hardik Pandya is bowling quite a bit now, almost bowling 4 overs, Pollard bowls his slower ones really well, which might be useful on a Chennai wicket.”

Rohit Sharma led Mumbai Indians will begin their title defense on 9 April against Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) at Chennai.

(With Star Sports inputs)