Suryakumar Yadav’s resolute 73 not out and Neman Dhir took Mumbai Indians up to 180/5, who was well exploited on a dull surface here on Wednesday by Delhi’s capital spinners Kuldeep Yadav (1/25) and Vipraj Nigam (0/25). On the pitch of an unwanted Wankhed Stadium, which had a lot of grip for spinners and slow cutters and was fast working for bowlers, Suryakumar dug the five -time IPL winners to knock the quality for the winners. Suryakumar hit seven fours and four sixes that 73 not out of 43 balls to make two important stands, which revived the innings.
First, dominating the proceedings amid a challenging phase of playing with DC spinners, Suryakumar scored 55 runs for the fourth wicket with Tilak Verma and finally, found an ideal foil (8 balls, 2x4s, 2x6s) to add another 57 runs to another 57 runs in Dhir.
The tables changed to a great extent in the last two overs when Indian T20 captains Suryakumar and Dhir hit a total of five sixes and four borders to add 48 runs, which gives full speed in favor of Mi.
However, in one phase it seemed very difficult for the Mumbai batsmen, who struggled correctly from the end of the powerplay until the 18th over.
Rohit Sharma (5) For the fourth time a left -handed pace fell, this season behind Mustafizur Rahman (1/30) behind one.
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Suryakumar had a lifeline batting on six when a major lead in the seventh over fell to the left of Kuldeep’s small leg to Mukesh Kumar’s left.
But at the next delivery, Ryan Ricelton (25) directly swept Madhav Tiwari into Deep Square leg, with which Kuldeep also completed his 100 wickets in the IPL.
This was a laborious innings of Tilak, which struggled against Kuldeep and failed to lose when his side needed him.
Tilak clearly fought the most against Kuldeep, even to rotate the strike and manage seven runs off 11 balls.
Tilak’s dismissal-Hardik Pandya (3) was followed by a long hit from Tilak’s dismissal-Mukesh (2/48), which was done by a slow foot-cantory from the enemy, Chamera (1/54), to get only one outer edge which was directly deployed at a backward point in Mukesh.
Like Tilak, Suryakumar also fought against Delhi spinners, who got enough turn to keep the free-flowing batter in the check, but he capitalized to the end to produce his best knock of the season.
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