Rohit, Boult star as Mumbai surge into IPL top four
Rohit Sharma continued his own and Mumbai Indians' resurgence with a brilliant 70 to set up a comprehensive seven-wicket victory against the Sunrisers Hyderabad in their IPL match at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
Sunrisers crashed to 35-5 after being asked to bat first but recovered to a barely respectable 143-8 but the visitors cruised to 146-3 in just 15.4 overs to move to third place on the log after losing their first three games.
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Rohit pulled, hooked and occasionally cut eight fours and three sixes in his innings from 46 balls leaving Suryakumar Yadav to finish the job with a stunning, unbeaten 40 from just 19 balls with five fours and two sixes.
Englishman Will Jacks played his part with a belligerent 22 containing two fours and a six.
Earlier Heinrich Klaasen rescued the home side’s innings from the despair of 13-4 inside the Power Play and 35-5 after 8.3 overs with an innings of controlled and targeted aggression as he gathered nine fours and two sixes from 44 balls.
Klaasen added 99 for the sixth wicket with Abhinav Manohar whose 43 from 37 balls (2x4, 3x6) was understandably restrained until the very end with the team in such dire straits.
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MAXIMUM 🙌 & GONE ☝
Heinrich Klaasen played a superb knock of 71(44) 👍
Jasprit Bumrah completed his 3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣th T20 wicket 👏
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Travis Head (0) slashed the excellent Trent Boult (4-26) to deep cover and Abhishek Sharma (8) chopped the same bowler to backward point while Ishan Kishan (1) bizarrely ‘walked’ for a legside edge against seamer Deepak Chahar (4-0-12-2) when the Mumbai fielders barely appealed and replays suggested he had not hit the ball.
When Nitish Reddy (2) toe-ended a drive against Chahar to mid on and Aniket Verma (12) was caught by Rickelton off MI captain Hardik Pandya the innings was in disarray before cool Klaasen engineered an impressive but ultimately futile rescue.
For his match-winning spell, Trent Boult is tonight's Player of the Match 👏
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While the result leaves a jubilant MI in third place on net run-rate the Sunrisers face the prospect of early elimination from playoff contention with a wretched record of just two wins from eight matches and prop up the bottom of the log alongside the Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings.
SUNRISERS HYDERABAD: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wkt), Aniket Verma, Pat Cummins (captain), Harshal Patel, Jaydev Unadkat, Zeeshan Ansari, Eshan Malinga
MUMBAI INDIANS: Ryan Rickelton (wkt), Will Jacks, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya (captain), Naman Dhir, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah, Vignesh Puthur
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