A sprightly Mumbai Indians continued their ascent within the Indian Premier League with a four-wicket victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad in a one-sided contest on a tough wicket on Thursday. Led by Will Jacks who played a decisive role with a superb 36 (26 balls, 3x4s, 3x6s) after an important spell of 3-0-14-2, Mumbai Indians executed an all-round show to record their second consecutive win. Nonetheless, there have been no changes to the points table as MI, with six points, and SRH, with 4 points, remained seventh and ninth, respectively.
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Similarly, there have been no changes within the Orange Cap and Purple Cap lists, still led by Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) vice-captain Nicholas Pooran (357 runs) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) spinner Noor Ahmad (12 wickets), respectively.
The house side got here on top for having assessed the Wankhede Stadium pitch accurately and adapting quickly to the conditions it presented, with each of the pieces falling in place for the five-time winners.
MI’s fast bowlers used the short and slower balls well throughout the primary innings and nailed their yorkers perfectly. Within the run chase, the MI batters showed a transparent plan to maintain finding the boundaries which kept them on top.
Chasing 163 on a pitch which had grip and switch, MI were also benefited by SRH’s reluctance to bring on spin within the powerplay, as the house side made 166/6 in 18.1 overs to record their third win of the season.
Although Rohit Sharma endured one other failure after a promising start during which he made 26 off 16 balls with three sixes, he gave MI the momentum with the bat and the others capitalised on it.
Opener Ryan Rickelton made a fluent 31 while Suryakumar Yadav hammered two sixes and as many fours to make 26 (off 15 balls) to supply a powerful support to Jacks.
Captain Hardik Pandya played an important cameo of 21 off just nine balls to take MI to the edge of victory. Tilak Varma (21 not out) then took MI over the road after a late minor hiccup as the house side reached 166 for six in 18.1 overs.
In the primary half, Sunrisers Hyderabad found late momentum with the bat to fight their way through and post 162 for five.
With the surface on the Wankhede Stadium providing grip and switch for the spinners and slower deliveries giving dividends to the pace bowlers, Sunrisers Hyderabad batters struggled to adapt to the wicket for many a part of the innings.
But a giant finish — 57 runs coming off the last five overs — gave SRH some much-needed impetus towards the tip.
MI bowlers were spot-on in formulating their plans and near-perfect of their execution with Jasprit Bumrah delivering a measly 4-0-21-1, Trent Boult nailing his yorkers again to return 4-0-29-1 and Will Jacks producing a powerful 3-0-14-2.
The SRH struggle was evident from the beginning at the same time as Abhishek Sharma stroked his technique to 40 off 28 balls with seven boundaries.
It began with an eventful first over when the 2 SRH openers got a reprieve each off Deepak Chahar.
Abhishek went down the wicket, swinging his bat on the primary delivery. The ball shaped away barely to take the sting but Jacks did not pay money for it.
On the fourth delivery, Travis Head played one straight to Karn Sharma at midwicket where he did not pluck a low catch because the ball fell just in need of him.
Abhishek seemed to be hitting his strides when he smacked three fours off Chahar within the fifth over but there was just no momentum gained.
Raj Angad Bawa timed his dive to grab the ball to dismiss Abhishek off Pandya for the primary breakthrough and by then it was evident that SRH would should scrape their way through to a competitive total.
Jacks then had former MI player Ishan Kishan stumped for a mere two.
Head was unable to open up at the same time as he tried his best to chop loose. Despite having caught off a no-ball with Pandya overstepping, Head did not capitalise as he fell for an peculiar 29-ball 28.
Such was the impact of MI’s control that the primary six of the sport got here as late as within the 18th over — the perfect one among SRH’s innings — when Heinrich Klaasen (37 off 28 balls, 3x4s, 2x6s) took 21 runs to spoil Chahar’s figures (4-0-47-0).
In the ultimate over, Aniket Verma hit a few sixes and Pat Cummins smacked one to take vital 22 runs off Pandya.
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