Currently, the Sunrises Hyderabad (SRH) are taking on Mumbai Indians (MI) at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. After winning the toss, the SRh skipper, Bhuvneshwar Kumar decided to bowl first on a tricky pitch and bowlers didn’t disappoint at all. Mumbai was reeling at 43-3 after 9 overs.
During the toss, the MI skipper, Rohit Sharma revealed that they have made two changes in their squad Yuvraj Singh and Lasith Malinga made way for Ishant Kishan and Alzarri Joseph. On the other hand, SRH made no changes to the squad as Williamson is still not able to be completely fit.
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Mumbai had a forgettable start to their innings, as Rohit got two back-to-back lifelines in the first over of the match itself. However, in the 4th over, as he finally got dismissed by Mohammad Nabi. Then came Surya Kumar Yadav, who also got out in the 6th over by Sandeep Sharma and after that Quinton de Kock and Krunal Pandya also got out as MI was struggling at 63/4 after 12 overs. In the next over itself, Kishan also got dismissed owing to the brilliance of Jonny Bairstow and Vijay Shankar.
After Kishan’s dismissal, Everyone expected that it would be the time for Kieron Pollard and Hardik Pandya to use their willow once again over the SRH bowlers. However, even they found it tough to handle the bowling of Hyderabad. Hardik, who stayed at the crease for 14 balls whacked a six before being dismissed to Rashid Khan but he smacked a six o. In the end, it was Pollard and Rahul Chahar, who helped Mumbai Indians to cross 100 runs on the board.
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In the last two overs, Mumbai scored as many as 39 runs with the help of 4 humongous sixes from Pollard three of them came against Siddharth Kaul in the 19th overs. However, on the first ball of the that over, the big man smashed a one-handed six over long-off. In the final over, Pollard targetted Bhuvenshwar with the help of a six and a couple of fours as Mumbai reached the total of 136/7 in their quota of 20 overs.
Here is the video of Pollard’s massacre:
https://twitter.com/Vidshots1/status/1114568596821164033
