Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad are locking horns in the 55th match of the Indian Premier League 2021 in Abu Dhabi. Mumbai Indians need to win this game by a margin of 171 runs or more in order to secure a top-four finish.
Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to bat first. He mentioned Krunal Pandya and Piyush Chawla are back in the playing XI while Saurabh Tiwary and Jayant Yadav misses out. SRH, on the other hand, are captaincy by Manish Pandya as Kane Williamson is out due to a niggle and is replaced by Mohammad Nabi. Bhuvneshwar Kumar also missed due to niggle and Priyam Garg replaced him.
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Mumbai Indians had a very tough task to post a mammoth target for SRH. Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan started the innings with a bang and expressed their intentions straight away. Ishan in particular was more threatening with his wild bat-swing.
Rohit Sharma got out after scoring 18 runs after sharing an 80-run opening stand. Ishan, however, was unmoved by this and kept hitting boundaries. He scored his fifty in 16 balls and MI scored 83 runs inside the powerplay. He got out after scoring 84 runs in just 32 balls, which featured 11 fours and four sixes.
Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya and James Neesham failed to hit big and got out cheaply. Suryakumar Yadav, though, was a man on a mission. He got his eyes in and scored his fastest IPL fifty in just 24 balls. His 40-ball knock of 82 runs propelled MI to 235/9 in 20 overs.
MI needed to all-out SRH for 65 or below.
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In response, Jason Roy and Abhishek Sharma came out with all guns blazing. The duo shared 64 runs for the opening wicket before the former got out for 34. At this moment, MI got eliminated from this season and KKR got through to the playoffs. Abhishek Sharma played a good hand and scored 33 runs in 16 balls.
A flurry of wickets then left SRH reeling at 100/4 with Mohammad Nabi and Abdul Samad back in the hut. Manish Pandey looked good on his captaincy debut and scored an unbeaten fifty but couldn’t find any support from the other end. He scored 69 runs in 41 balls which features seven fours and two sixes.
SRH fell short by 42 runs. Despite winning the game, MI failed to find its way to the fop-four.
See how Twitter reacted to this game;
The last time some of these champion players are featuring in the same XI for #MI
Been an absolute joy watching the pack in 2019-20 seasons. End of a great era!!!#Rohit #Pollard #Malinga #Bumrah #DeKock #Hardik #Krunal #Surya #Ishan #Boult #Chahar #McClenaghan— Deepu Narayanan (@deeputalks) October 8, 2021
Pattern of run scoring by #MI and #SRH puts nature of pitch in perspective. It’s a featherbed. If SRH had power hitters like MI, may have been in a position to win the match!
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) October 8, 2021
#SRH openers Roy and Ashishek gave it back in kind. Roy’s just been dismissed, but by now #MI’s hopes of a place in play-offs has been quashed. #KKR players will breathe sigh of relief
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) October 8, 2021
All things considered, pyrrhic win for #MI. Doesn’t help get them into the play-offs. #SRH showed commitment and ability.
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) October 8, 2021
An 8 run over and a 5 run over in it and yet, this is the best power play score in this year's #IPL. Ishan Kishan has just gone berserk. 63(22)!!
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) October 8, 2021
This is barbaric from Ishan Kishan
— Will Macpherson (@willis_macp) October 8, 2021
So the league stage is done. Today’s takeaway @ishankishan51 and @surya_14kumar back in form for India and KS Bharat winning it for RCB and taking it on himself rather than leaving it for Maxwell. DC v CSK- DC for me. KKR RCB KKR for me!! Both can go wrong but that’s the fun!
— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar) October 8, 2021
What a game these guys are having.. @ishankishan51 @surya_14kumar some serious hitting! Extraordinary shots 👏👏 @mipaltan #MIvsSRH #IPL2021 #MI
— Vinay Kumar R (@Vinay_Kumar_R) October 8, 2021
