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Suryakumar Yadav credited his wife Devisha Shetty’s presence for MI’s win against SRH.
Suryakumar Yadav, Devisha Shetty (L) and Mumbai Indians celebrating vs SRH.
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Senior Mumbai Indians (MI) batter Suryakumar Yadav said the team ‘needed to win’ because his wife, Devisha Shetty, flew in to Hyderabad to look at the team play against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). MI beat SRH by seven wickets to seal their fourth-consecutive win of the season.
Pacers Trent Boult and Deepak Chahar reduced the hosts to 35/5 in the primary innings before Heinrich Klaasen’s 71 (44) and Abhinav Manohar’s 43 (37) helped them reach 143/8. In reply, opener Rohit Sharma’s clinical 70 (46) and Suryakumar’s unbeaten 40 (19) made light work of the chase.
Shetty was seen within the stands a few times.
“She has flown down from Mumbai, so what more do I want?” Suryakumar said after the match. “She was here, so we needed to win. I believe it was really necessary to come back out positive as we were playing good cricket and needed to proceed the momentum, winning 4 games on the trot is a fantastic feeling.”
Surya also spoke about Rohit, explaining how the previous skipper made his ‘job easier’.
“He made my job really easier, I just needed to bat with good tempo, and him scoring runs is a extremely great sign for the team…” Suryakumar said, before adding about his favorite sweep shot: “You retain practising these sweeps within the nets, I would like to proceed that in the sport, and I’m really glad with it. It’s less risk, high reward.”
This was his second unbeaten knock in a win after his sensible 68 against Chennai Super Kings.
‘Nice to contribute’: Trent Boult
Left-arm pacer Boult shone together with his 4 wickets in the primary innings. He took two within the powerplay and two on the death.
“Just nice to contribute to win,” he said after the match, as quoted by Cricbuzz. “Good game for us. To limit them to a good rating of their home conditions was wonderful. Just desired to hit the wicket and make the batsmen play good shots, tried to maintain it easy and put pressure on the batsmen. Good to see a few catches held today. I’d like to bowl 4 in a row and let it swing but that doesn’t at all times occur. Have to at all times be ready for each time I’m called upon. Barely different role for me this 12 months. It’s a low percentage ball for me but as some older bowlers would say, nothing could beat yorker. I still love the sensation of competing and getting wickets. It’s an enormous tournament, there are lots of of 1000’s of bowlers who’d like to do what we’re doing so it’s about not taking it with no consideration,” the Kiwi added.
