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.
Ishan Kishan got out after scoring 83 runs in 32 balls and no other MI batsmen were able to trouble SRH bowlers barring Suryakumar Yadav. He got his eyes in first before unleashing his beast mode towards the end of the innings.
In the process, Suryakumar Yadav raced his way to a 24-ball fifty, which happens to be his fastest in the IPL. He was hitting boundaries for fun and scored 82 runs in 40 balls, which features 13 fours and three sixes. It was his innings that propelled MI’s total to 235/9 in 20 overs.
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Twitter was buzzing after seeing this monstrous knock by Surya. Here are some of the best tweets;
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Surya rises against the Sunrisers 🌞
Can #MumbaiIndians get #SRH all out for 6️⃣5️⃣? 🤔#SRHvMI #VIVOIPL #IPL2021 #OneFamily pic.twitter.com/9U6eUBhvfH
— Star Sports (@StarSportsIndia) October 8, 2021
Ishan Kishan 84 off 32 (262.50)
Suryakumar Yadav 82 off 40 (205.00)This is for the first time that two players have scored 80+ runs at a strike-rate of 200+ in the same innings in an #IPL match.#IPL2021 #SRHvMI
— Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket) October 8, 2021
#ishan and #SuryakumarYadav have done their bit by bat by Hitting 24 fours and 7 sixes. Can Boult and Bumrah do the magic with ball? If they do, it will be the match of the #IPL2021#MIvSRH#SRHvMI
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh) October 8, 2021
84(32) and 82(40) – Two Outrageous knocks from two of the best T20 batters in the country. That too when the team needed it so much! Hats off to Ishan Kishan and SKY.#MIvSRH | #IPL2021
— Prasenjiit Dey (@CricPrasen) October 8, 2021
Fifty by Suryakumar Yadav in just 24 balls. Excellent signs for India ahead of T20 World Cup. Surya, Ishan and KL have been batting tremendously well. pic.twitter.com/PldN7Cn7eK
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) October 8, 2021
Suryakumar Yadav completes 4,000 T20 runs. One of the finest white ball talent currently.
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) October 8, 2021
Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): Jason Roy, Abhishek Sharma, Manish Pandey(c), Priyam Garg, Abdul Samad, Wriddhiman Saha(w), Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi, Umran Malik, Siddarth Kaul.
Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan(w), Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, James Neesham, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Jasprit Bumrah, Piyush Chawla, Trent Boult.
