Three days before at the same location, the Mumbai Indians were chasing a total that they were unable to reach, but Suryakumar Yadav struck a brilliant 51-ball 102*, including six sixes and twelve fours. Suryakumar’s skill at hitting boundaries proved to be the reason SRH was unable to emulate KKR’s success with the ball, as MI outperformed them in this area that night. Following three wickets apiece from Hardik Pandya and Piyush Chawla to limit the visitors to 173/8, Suryakumar’s comeback swept SRH away.
Where was the victory in the game?
The middle of the overs. After an early wobble, SRH lost direction and merely fought for limits. MI, on the other side, had a worse beginning, but Suryakumar gave them a counterattacking second chance.
| Parameters | SRH | MI |
|---|---|---|
| Runs | 64/4 | 87/0 |
| RR | 6.4 | 8.7 |
| 4s/6s | 4/1 | 11/3 |
Hyderabad’s Sunrisers
PowerPlay: Bumrah hits, but SRH soars
Phase rating: 56/1 [RR: 9.34, 6/2 for 4s/6s]
For the early part of the PowerPlay, the MI pacer got the ball to swing and held the SRH openers largely in check. Anshul Kamboj, making his debut, almost had a memorable moment when he took out Travis Head, but the umpire called it out for a no-ball. Nineteen runs came off that over, and Head tried his luck with a few inside edges, but in the final PowerPlay over, Bumrah dismissed Abhishek Sharma.
SRH loses Head, Nitish, and Klaasen in the middle overs.
Phase rating: 64/4 6.40, 4s/6s: 4/1, RR:
Head’s luck held until the halfway point, when Nuwan Thushara dropped a clear cut at third man, almost giving Kamboj the upper hand once more. However, when Mayank Agarwal was clean bowled in the same over, Kamboj claimed his first-ever IPL wicket. After that, Piyush Chawla and Hardik Pandya severely damaged one of the strongest batting teams in the competition by taking out Heinrich Klaasen, Head, and Nitish Reddy. While Klaasen attempted to slog, Head attempted to sweep Chawla and struck a backward square leg, missing one. In the interval between these two outs, Hardik Pandya outperformed Nitish. Before Marco Jansen hit a four and a six off consecutive balls to end the middle overs, SRH went 35 balls without scoring a four or a six.
Death-overs: SRH rises to 173/8 thanks to Cummins
Phase rating: 53/3 [RR: 10.60, 2/2 for 4s/6s]
Piyush took his third wicket to further debilitate SRH, while Hardik kept getting rewards for hard lengths, but Pat Cummins made a crucial cameo to give his bowlers a total to work with. In order to surpass 150 runs, SRH brought in Sanvir Singh as an impact replacement after Abdul Samad was dismissed in the 17th over. Sanvir kept his captain company as he attempted to hit some successful swings with his bat. At the end, Nuwan Thusara was inconsistent and gave up 29 runs in his two overs. In the twentieth over, Cummins struck him for a six and a four, and he finished with a 17-ball 35*.
Indians from Mumbai
PowerPlay: MI’s top three are destroyed by SRH quicks
52/3 is the phase score. [RR: 8.67, 10/1 for 4s/6s]
Even during a stretch in which the hosts had little trouble hitting boundaries, they were nevertheless defeated by elite bowling. After giving a wide four to begin the innings, Marco Jansen recovered by getting Ishan Kishan to nick to Mayank Yadav at first slip. Then, for the fourth time in the IPL, Pat Cummins dismissed Rohit Sharma with a harmless leg-stump delivery that the player attempted to flick but missed. To finish the take, Heinrich Klaasen covered ground behind him. With reckless abandon, Cummins finished that over with Suryakumar Yadav’s bat breaking the outside edge. After a subpar opening over, Bhuvneshwar Kumar also turned around to remove Naman Dhir for a nine-ball duck. Suryakumar and Tilak Varma overcame a shaky beginning to finish the PowerPlay reasonably well, taking 16 off Cummins.
Suryakumar gets MI back on track in the middle overs.
Phase rating: 87/0 8.70, 4s/6s: 11/3 in RR
Dew made things difficult for SRH, and Suryakumar’s excellent response made things even worse. During a 22-run over, Jansen made two fours and two sixes, earning his wrath for his length of errors. Nitish Reddy got off to a strong start, and T Natarajan bowled a decent opening over, but Suryakumar was still able to play around with the SRH pitch and score quickly. He had some difficulty in between overs, but in the thirteenth over, he reached a 30-ball fifty. Cummins’s aspirations of pulling another one over on the South African ended badly, compounding Jansen’s already terrible day. In an over containing 14 runs, Suryakumar struck two fours. By the thirteenth over, MI had amassed as many boundaries (15 x 4, 3 x 6) as SRH had. After Jansen started hitting hard, Cummins substituted left-arm spinner Shahbaz Ahmed for an over, but Surykumar also took him apart with two sweep shots. He then mentioned the 100-plus run stand, in which Tilak had made just 64 deliveries.
Death-overs: Suryakumar chases after a century
Phase rating: 25/0 10.71, 4s/6s: 4/2 in [RR]
In a desperate attempt to find a breakthrough, Cummins, who had hardly walked wrong that day, came back early for his final over. In front of him, Suryakumar hit two fours and a six to reach the nineties. With 2.4 overs remaining, Suryakumar completed the chase after hitting his second three-figure milestone in the Indian Premier League, off 51 balls and a magnificent six over extra cover, in Natarajan’s 18th over.
Brief Scores: Suryakumar Yadav 102, Tilak Varma 37, Bhuvneshwar Kumar 1-22) and Mumbai Indians 174/3 in 20 overs defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad 173/8 in 20 overs (Travis Head 48, Pat Cummins 35*, Hardik Pandya 3-31, Piyush Chawla 3-33) by 7 wickets.
What comes next?
This season, SRH will not be travelling further. On May 8, they return home to play LSG, another team vying for a spot in the top four. MI will play KKR away from home after a four-day break.
