Highlights, IPL 2018, MI vs DD at Mumbai, Full cricket score: Delhi Daredevils win by seven wickets

Mumbai Indians, Rohit Sharma: Yeah pretty disappointing. One of those games. We had good total on the ball. We could have bowled little smatter and use the slower ball better. Credit to Jason, didn’t give us any opportunity. We got off to a very good start and couldn’t capitalise in the last 5 overs. We need to learn this as a group. Hopefully guys can learn from their mistakes. Last 5 overs they bowled very well. Hopefully we learn from this. Room for improvement in our fielding department. Those catches we dropped could have gone either way. Yeah we can, we certainly have the guys to pull things back. We definitely didn’t want to start slow. It gets tougher in the end. We want to get off the mark. Hopefully we can learn from the negatives and come back strong in the next game

Highest targets successfully chased at Wankhede in IPL:

195 – DD v MI, 2018*
190 – MI v RR, 2014
184 – CSK v MI, 2015

Delhi Daredevils win by 7 wickets off the final ball! Mumbai Indians lose another thriller!

BALL 6: Roy gets bat on ball this time from the outside half of the bat. Although it wasn’t of the middle of the bat, the ball clears the infield and that is enough for Delhi. Jason Roy the Man of the Moment does it in the end. Nerve wrangling that saw Mumbai lose. Delhi get their campaign underway with a last-ball win against Mumbai Indians.

BALL 5: Dot ball! This time he tried to run it down to third man but still no bat on ball. MI try their luck with DRS and nothing on the UltraEdge. More of optimism than conviction. 1 off 1. DRAMA!

BALL 4: Another dot ball. This time he pitches it full, Roy looks to strike over long on. 1 run off 2 balls

BALL 3: Swing and miss. Dot. Slower off cutter goes across and Roy fails to get bat and ball.

BALL 2: SIX! Scores level!  What a shot to play it over the fine leg for a superb stroke. Roy is taking Delhi home. What an innings he has played.

BALL 1: FOUR! Fizz slips it wide of off stump and Roy hammers it to cover boundary. 7 off 5.

Extra cover, backward point, short third man and square leg are the men inside the circle.

After 19 overs,Delhi Daredevils 184/3 ( Jason Roy 80 , Shreyas Iyer 27)

Bumrah outfoxes Roy with a slower ball with the batsman having no clue. Balloons it up in the air but everything has gone Roy’s way today, falls in no mans land. Five good deliveries giving just five runs. Targeted the wide yorker time and again and executed it to perfection. 11 runs required of the final over. High quality bowling by Bumrah. Delhi’s game to lose.
 

Can Mustafizur redeem himself after dropping those catches? Need six good balls!

After 18 overs,Delhi Daredevils 179/3 ( Jason Roy 76 , Shreyas Iyer 26)

Will need a miracle for Mumbai to win it from here on. Eight runs of the over. 16 needed off 12. Bumrah to bowl the 19th.

FOUR! Shot! That has been struck well by Iyer. Mustafizur bowled five good deliveries, dropped it short into the midriff to smash it to deep midwicket boundary.

After 17 overs,Delhi Daredevils 171/3 ( Jason Roy 76 , Shreyas Iyer 19)

Eleven runs off the over. DD are favourites to cross the line from hereon. Fizz might be bowling the 18th over, will be interesting to see how he goes about his work after couple of drops. 11 runs off Bumrah’s over.

DROPPED! Lot easier than the previous one and it is that man Mustafizur again at the short third man, this time ball was cut to his right. Rohit is furious, the fielder wouldn’t want to be anwhere close to the captain.

FOUR! Iyer cuts it through backward point for another boundary.

FOUR! Add insult to injury, after Iyer being dropped off the previous ball. Roy pulls it to mid wicket boundary.

DROPPED! Iyer’s edge flies to short third man, with the ball dipping on the fielder it was a tough chance that Mumbai fans would have hoped their fielder clinched.

After 16 overs,Delhi Daredevils 160/3 ( Jason Roy 71 , Shreyas Iyer 13)

34 runs required off 4 overs now. DD are cantering towards the finish line. MI bowlers are facing the wrath from Roy, who is middle of terrific innings.

In IPL 

15/04/2015: Glenn Maxwell out vs a spinner

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15/04/2017: Glenn Maxwell out vs a spinner

14/04/2018: Glenn Maxwell out vs a spinner

FOUR! Cut away. That should been cut off by substitute fielder Rahul Chahar. Puts in the dive but parries it to the fence.

SIX! How well has Roy adjusted to this one. Krunal saw him charging down the pitch and dragged it wide. Roy reaches out to it and slams it into the sight screen. Excellent batting this!

After 15 overs,Delhi Daredevils 148/3 ( Jason Roy 64 , Shreyas Iyer 8)

Danajaya’s IPL debut has been a forgettable outing. Leaked 47 runs without getting a single wicket. 11 runs of his final over. 47 runs required of last five overs.

SIX! Full ball by Dananjaya and Iyer muscles this over wide long on for his first six. Pressure back on MI.

After 14 overs,Delhi Daredevils 137/3 ( Jason Roy 61 , Shreyas Iyer 1)

Iyer walks out to the middle at the fall of third wicket. He is in without a helmet. Krunal bowls a fantastic over. He has kept Mumbai in this.

OUT! Much-needed breakthrough for the Mumbai Indians. Maxwell’s bat turns in his hands with turn going away from him, but the ball was always going away from Hardik Pandya at long off. The younger Pandya makes good ground, puts in the dive parallel to ground and takes a spectacular catch.

G Maxwell c Hardik Pandya b Krunal Pandya 13(6)

After 13 overs,Delhi Daredevils 134/2 ( Jason Roy 59 , Glenn Maxwell 13)

Mayank Markande has been taken to the cleaners today. Smashed around by Roy and Pant first and now Maxwell also running into him. Match slipping away from. 61 needed off 42 balls.

SIX! Maxwell sweeps well over backward square leg. He is contuing the momentum even after Pant’s fall.

FOUR! Maxwell makes a superb connection, hitting down the ground for a boundary.

After 12 overs,Delhi Daredevils 119/2 ( Jason Roy 57 , Glenn Maxwell 0)

Krunal bowls a successful over giving away just six runs and picking up a vital wicket of Pant. Still MI will need couple of more wickets to come into the match.

OUT! Pant once again targets the straight boundary, but patrolling the long off fence is Pollard who moves couple paces to his left and dives to hold on to fiercely hit stroke. End of dynamic innings from Pant

Pant c Pollard b Krunal Pandya 47(25)

FOUR! Pandya tries to bowl it wide from the left hander, but Pant reaches out for it and pounds it straight down for a one bounce four.

Krunal Pandya comes on to bowl.

After 11 overs,Delhi Daredevils 113/1 ( Jason Roy 56 , Rishabh Pant (W) 42)

Not even Bumrah is able to keep these two quiet as they continue to find the fence in the over. Roy is going all guns blazing!

FOUR! Whack! Pitched up by Bumrah and Roy prefers the straight area and that has been hit hard! Clears Pollard at mid off

Players to score 50-plus runs in debut IPL innings for DD: Albie Morkel, JP Duminy, Gautam Gambhir, Sam Billings, Paul Collingwood, Shikhar Dhawan, David Warner, Kedar Jadhav, JASON ROY*

FIFTY! It has been a brilliant knock by England’s opener. He has been superb from the onset, taking the attack to the bowlers.

Jasprit Bumrah introduced into the attack.

Rishabh Pant has been dismissed by Jasprit Bumrah thrice in just eight balls before today.

After 10 overs,Delhi Daredevils 104/1 ( Jason Roy 49 , Rishabh Pant (W) 40)

Fifty partnership for the second wicket comes in no time. The left and right hand combo are on the attack against the spinners. As they take 19 runs off the over to go past 100.

SIX! Again comes down the pitch and launches it high over long on. Danajaya under the pump.

FOUR! Smart batting by Pant. He swept this away for a boundary. Runs flowing for DD.

SIX! Makes use of his feet, gets to the pitch of the ball and goes downtown to hit long.

After 9 overs,Delhi Daredevils 85/1 ( Jason Roy 48 , Rishabh Pant (W) 22)

Pant is on the attack against the young spinner. Roy also getting a biggie in the over. This is turning out to be a good phase for DD

FOUR! Markande drops his length and Pant camps back to smash it to square leg boundary.

SIX! Flat bat six that just clears the man at long off. Roy continues to attack the spinner.

FOUR! Pant is not allowing Markande to settle here. Takes the risk of playing the reverse sweep against the leg spinner bowling from round wicket, gets it over the short third man fielder.

After 8 overs,Delhi Daredevils 68/1 ( Jason Roy 41 , Rishabh Pant (W) 12)

Dananjaya completes a good second over after leaking boundaries in the earlier over during the powerplay. Ishan Kishan thought he has got the wicket of Roy after the batsmen got a bottom edge onto his shoe and the ball bounces up for the wicket-keeper to dive and take a catch. Umpires did send it upstairs and the replays showed the ball came in contact with the ground while hitting the shoe. Five off it.

After 7 overs,Delhi Daredevils 63/1 ( Jason Roy 38 , Rishabh Pant (W) 10)

Markande’s concedes 10 runs off his over with Pant smacking back-to-back boundaries. He has been slightly on the shorter side and the Delhi batsman has taken full advantage of it.

Mayank Markande took seven wickets in his first two IPL matches – the joint second most by any player. Will he be able to break the ongoing stand?

Mumbai ahead at the end of powerplay. Rohit will look to unleash his trump cards now with the stakes at table slightly lower now. Important passage of play coming up. Unlike Mumbai, DD cant afford to take play a few quiet overs of spin as they are already behind the required rate.

FOUR! Markande goes flat and Pant gets into position to pull it away to mid wicket fence.

FOUR! Short by Mayank and Pant slams it to past cover fielder

Mayank Markande introduced into the attack. 

Bowling to Pant may really test the mettle of Markande. A ferocious hitter with a reputation for powerful stroke making in domestic circuit may have the rookie spinner a bit overawed. Interesting match up ahead.

After 6 overs,Delhi Daredevils 53/1 ( Jason Roy 37 , Rishabh Pant (W) 1)

Rishabh Pant is the new man in at number three. Fizz gets the wicket of DD captain. Only three runs off the last over.  Mumbai will be happy with a wicket and 53 runs of the powerplay.

Roy likes this ground. His inning in 2016 WT20 provided the English innings the necessary impetus to chase 229 against South Africa at the same ground.

Rishabh Pant’s strike rate of 153.00 in IPL – the fifth highest among all the players. (Min.500 runs)

Most catches in IPL by fielders:

87 – Suresh Raina

74 – AB de Villiers, ROHIT SHARMA*

71 – Kieron Pollard

Poor tactics from Rohit. He had managed to build some pressure with a couple of tight overs from Bumrah and Mustafizur. But just as you thought something will give, he provided the release with an over of Hardik. Rohit tries too hard to keep the comfort of overs in the bank from Bumrah and Mustafizur. At times, you have to sense the opportunity as a captain and try to kill the game early.

OUT! Matter of time! Mustafizur goes short and Gambhir is unable to get it from the centre, hit him high on the bat, coming off from the maker’s name, Rohit completes a simple catch. Gambhir’s struggle comes to an end.

Gambhir c Rohit b Mustafizur 15(16)

After 5 overs,Delhi Daredevils 50/0 ( Jason Roy 35 , Gautam Gambhir (C) 15)

DD take 21 runs off the over thanks to some breathtaking striking by Jason Roy. They reach 50 in the 5th over.

FOUR! WOW! This is some superb striking. Roy goes straight down the ground. Hardik facing the heat at the moment.

SIX! That is huuugggee! Hardik tries the short ball and bang that has been smoked with a flat bat over mid wicket.

SIX! Hardik bowls length and Roy clubs it like a pro golfer for half a dozen. Clean hit!

FOUR! Finally Gambhir gets one from the middle. Hardik begins the second over with a boundary to deep square leg.

After 4 overs,Delhi Daredevils 29/0 ( Jason Roy 19 , Gautam Gambhir (C) 10)

Roy drives it nicely for no run off the first ball, rotates the strike with a single to sweeper cover. The required rate just climbs over 10. Gambhir clearly struggling to find the sweet spot of the bat, he keeps trying to clear his front leg and go for the big shot but the bowlers are already aware of his intentions and are one step ahead. Roy tries to work it around on the onside but the off cutter just stops and finds the leding edge, luckily for Roy it fell next to the non-striker’s stumps.

The game looks nicely poised at the moment as Delhi are off to a solid start. With Shreyas, Pant and Maxwell to follow, Delhi isn’t short of batting prowess to score 195. As the first innings showed, wickets will be the key for Mumbai.

Mustafizur Rahman introduced into the attack. One over for each bowler so far.

After 3 overs,Delhi Daredevils 25/0 ( Jason Roy 17 , Gautam Gambhir (C) 8)

Bumrah angles across the left hander, with the Delhi captain taking the front leg out and attempting to hit it over the infield on the offside, but misses couple of times. Tries to get into the line for the last two deliveries, but doesn’t get the bat on one ball and finds the square leg fielder off the last ball. Only two runs off Bumrah’s first over.

Here is Jasprit Bumrah.

After 2 overs,Delhi Daredevils 23/0 ( Jason Roy 17 , Gautam Gambhir (C) 6)

With Roy’s vulnerabilities against spin no secret, MI asked Danajaya to start the second over, but the English batsmen smashed couple of his delivers to boundary, the six must have dented the spinner’s confidence. Not the best of the starts to the Sri Lankan’s IPL career.

Mumbai don’t have a good wicket taking option with the new ball so they will hope to concede as little as possible in the first six overs and hope they can pull the game back from there.

FOUR! That is poor. Halway down the track and Roy had all the time in the world to absolutely smash it to any part of the ground, he chooses the wide long on.

SIX! Jason Roy dances down the track and bludgeons it over mid-wicket for a massive six. 95 metres.

Spin. Akila Dananjaya into the attack.

After 1 overs,Delhi Daredevils 11/0 ( Jason Roy 6 , Gautam Gambhir (C) 5)

After couple of singles, Roy punches it through the cover region for a boundary. Hardik immediately asks for protection there. Roy plays the same shot off the next ball but with the man placed in the deep. Gambhir finishes the over with a boundary to long leg.

FOUR! Jason Roy presents a full face of the bat and times the punch through the offside to perfection to collect a boundary.

Out walk Delhi openers Jason Roy and Gautam Gambhir for Delhi Daredevils.

Hardik Pandya will open the bowling for the home side.

Gautam Gambhir’s strike rate of 116.20 against Mumbai Indians in IPL – the worst for a player with a cut-off of 350 runs.

An inning of two contrasting halves for Mumbai. They started out on jet engines at escape velocity but came down to earthly speeds and eventually had a sluggish landing. They were aiming for Mars at one point, but 194 is still the moon. Delhi will have to bat out of their skins to win this. Powerplay overs will be critical again. If Jason Roy gets going, then he is as destructive as anyone in this format. Momentum, that most elusive of all cricketing vantage points is sitting in the Delhi dugout at the moment, but one early wicket will introduce them to a certain Mister Scoreboard Pressure real soon.

The highest target successfully chased at Wankhede in IPL is 190 which was chased by Mumbai Indians against Rajasthan Royals in 2014. Yes, you guessed it right: the match which Aditya Tare finished with a six.

Mumbai Indians today:

First 6 overs: 84/0 (RR – 14.00) 

7-15 overs: 74/2 (RR – 8.22)

16-20 overs: 36/5 (RR – 7.20)

After 20 overs,Mumbai Indians 194/7 ( Akila Dananjaya 4 , Mayank Markande 4)

Mumbai Indians huff and puff in the end to reach 194 off his 20 overs. At the end of 15th over they were looking upwards of 200 with 158 on the board and eight wickets in hand. Only 36 runs coming off the last five overs with MI losing five wickets. Remarkable recovery for the Delhi Daredevils, Shami and Boult did brilliantly in the last three overs, but it was Daniel Christian, who turned things around with the wickets off Ishan Kishan and Kieron Pollard off consecutive deliveries in the 16th over.

Still Mumbai will believe they have a good total courtesy that fiery start in the first 10. Goes without saying that Delhi will have to bat well to get two points on the board. Join us for the chase.

OUT! Another off-cutter by Boult that gives DD another wicket! Hardik is out off the first ball, wickets tumbling towards the end. Akila Dananjaya and Mayank Markrande will have five balls left to whatever they can garner. Hardik flicks it straight to Shreyas Iyer at deep mid wicket.

Hardik Pandya c Shreyas Iyer b Boult 2(3)

After 19 overs,Mumbai Indians 187/6 ( Hardik Pandya 2 , Akila Dananjaya 2)

Krunal had to invent a way to score some quick runs, but falls off the third ball. MI losing momentum here. Hardik will be on strike for the final over, so MI would like to believe they can still get 200. DD bowlers have done extremely well to pull things back.

OUT! Krunal had to find out a way to score, he had 11 runs off nine balls, tried the scoop by moving across his stumps, Shami followed him and the slower ball meant he couldn’t use the pace, gets an edge onto thigh pad and to the short fine leg fielder.

MI losing momentum.

Krunal Pandya c Rahul Tewatia b Shami 11(10)

After 18 overs,Mumbai Indians 183/5 ( Krunal Pandya 10 , Hardik Pandya 1)

Trent Boult runs in to bowl the 18th over, he is most likely to bol the 20th as well.  Krunal walks to heave it on the onside but Boult kept it full and the southpaw could only work it for a single. Rohit carves a couple to sweeper cover, before holing out to long off off the next ball. Hardik gets off the mark with a single. Krunal cannot get it under the ball to strike to the boundary. Boult has bowled a tremendous over in the context of the game, giving away only seven runs of the over.

Hardik Pandya and Krunal Pandya’s partnership average in IPL is 27.75.

OUT! Rohit had to go for the big shot and Boult knew it. Change of pace delivery with the bowler running his fingers over the ball and kept it wide on off away from Rohit’s hitting zone. MI skipper skies it to long off where Roy completes a simple catch.

Rohit c Roy b Boult 18(15)

Mini recovery for Delhi with back to back wickets. Mumbai will be disappointed if they don’t get 220 after that start.

After 17 overs,Mumbai Indians 176/4 ( Rohit Sharma (C) 16 , Krunal Pandya 7)

Shami has hit his straps today. Batsmen have played him with much ease, used his extra pace whenever available. Nine runs off the over. Three more overs left in the innings with these two in the middle and Hardik to come in next 200 is very much on, infact 210 is possible.

FOUR! Krunal hammers it down the ground past mid off for his first boundary.

After 16 overs,Mumbai Indians 167/4 ( Rohit Sharma (C) 13 , Krunal Pandya 1)

Christian’s double strike will peg MI back slightly but with few big hitters in the line up they have enough fuel in the tank. Krunal comes in before younger brother and gets off the mark with a single to long on.

Most golden ducks at Wankhede in IPL:

2 – Parthiv Patel

2 – Harbhajan Singh

2 – Ashish Nehra

2 – Ambati Rayudu

2 – KIERON POLLARD*

OUT! Kieron Pollard walks in ahead of Pandya brothers and is knocked out off his first ball. Christian on a hat-trick. Pollard took a couple of strides forward even before the bowler was in his final stride, looked to work it off his hips on the leg side, but it takes the thigh pad on the way to crash into the offstump.

Christian on a hat-trick

K Pollard b Christian 0 (1)

OUT! Kishan fancied another switch hit this time against Christian, who bowls it directly on to the stumps. Kishan misses, Christian hits! End of an important and an entertaining innings.

Ishan Kishan b Christian 44(23)

FOUR! Kishan flays his hands to smash it over the cover fielder.

The youngsters are delivering the goods for Mumbai. Ishan took over from where Surya had left and made Tewatia pay for erring in length. Rohit and Kishan will be looking to go after everything now with big hitters like Pollard and Pandya brothers still to come.

After 15 overs,Mumbai Indians 158/2 ( Ishan Kishan (W) 36 , Rohit Sharma (C) 13)

MI cross 150-run mark in the fifteenth over. Kishan seems to be cutting loose here.

FOUR! Kishan was surprised by the short ball, in fact Shami did him for pace, but unfortunately for the bowler, the ball takes the top edge, hits the helmet and to fine leg boundary.

FOUR! Shami starts off another over by conceding a boundary off the first ball. On the hsorter side and Kishan dabs it past short third.

After 14 overs,Mumbai Indians 149/2 ( Ishan Kishan (W) 27 , Rohit Sharma (C) 13)

Last ball of Christian’s over spoils his entire over, giving away just four singles of the first balls balls, ends in an 8-run over.

FOUR! Christian tried the short ball to Rohit Sharma and he was upto the task, a controlled pull shot to fine leg. Delicately done.

After 13 overs,Mumbai Indians 141/2 ( Ishan Kishan (W) 25 , Rohit Sharma (C) 7)

Tewatia’s last three balls go for 16 runs while he had conceded just 20 runs off the first 21 balls of his spell. Harsh for the bowler. Kishan decided to take him on smashing two sixes and a boundary. Gambhir under enormous pressure. MI must be eyeing over 200.

SIX! Kishan makes great use of his feet and pounds another big shot over wide long on scoring back-to-back sixes!

SIX! Woah! Where did this shot come from!? Ishan Kishan unfurls the switch hit, gets into the position early, Tewatia bowls a fulltoss that is whacked over third man boundary

FOUR! Tewatia has barely bowled a poor delivery in his spell so far. He drops it halfway down the track and Kishan slams it to deep mid wicket.

After 12 overs,Mumbai Indians 122/2 ( Ishan Kishan (W) 8 , Rohit Sharma (C) 6)

Boundary for each of the two batsman should get them going. Without any risks, MI take 11 runs off the over.

Rohit Sharma is the only player to score 2000-plus runs batting at No 4 in IPL.

Rohit Sharma has fallen to right arm leg-spinners 19 times in IPL – the most for any player. Will Tewatia get him today?

FOUR! Maxwell strays it down leg side and Kishan brings down the bat to paddle it fine leg ropes.

FOUR! Majestic from the MI captain. Waited for the ball to turn and come into him, plays ever so late. Opens the face and runs it fine to short third man boundary.

After 11 overs,Mumbai Indians 111/2 ( Ishan Kishan (W) 2 , Rohit Sharma (C) 1)

Rohit Sharma in at number four, gets off the mark with a confident push to long off for a single. Tewatia has bowled really well in the tournament so far and he has given DD both their wickets so far. Completes another over that goes in visiting side’s favour.

Rohit Sharma’s last 10 T20 knocks:

11, 15, 56, 89, 11, 17, 0, 11, 0, 21

OUT! Tewatia has another wicket! Provides another breakthrough for the Daredevils picking out the wicket of the set batsman, Suryakumar Yadav. Went on with the arm as Yadav misses the sweep, umpire raises his finger and the decision stays on umpire’s call after the batsman chose to review it. Ball tracking showed the ball was clipping the leg stump.

Suryakumar Yadav lbw b Rahul Tewatia 53(32)

After 10 overs,Mumbai Indians 107/1 ( Suryakumar Yadav 51 , Ishan Kishan (W) 1)

Maxwell slips in another good over, keeping it down to five runs. DD spinners are applying the brakes to MI’s free flowing scoring. Ishan Kishan walks in, so looks like Rohit will bat at number 4.

The opening partnership is finally broken, and it’s a leg spinner again to the rescue. Seriously why bother bowling anything other than wrist spin in T20 cricket. Tewatia slowed his pace beautifully against Lewis there and foxed him with a googly. In comes Ishan at 3, so Rohit is back to his preferred number 4  position for Mumbai.

This is just the second fifty-plus score for Suryakumar Yadav in IPL from 45 innings.

FIFTY! How good has Suryakumar Yadav played as an opener. Changing your batting number and coming out to open cannot be easy but he has played some dazlling strokes in his half century off 29 balls.

After 9 overs,Mumbai Indians 102/1 ( Suryakumar Yadav 47 , Ishan Kishan (W) 0)

A false stroke was around the corner after couple of tidy overs. Suryakumar got an leading edge but fortunately it didn’t go to any of the fielders. Lewis did manage a six straight down the ground and looked to repeat it again, but Tewatia’s googly did him. MI lose their first wicket after the 100-run partnership.

OUT! Lewis went for it again. That is the wrong’un from Tewatia and Lewis, who was down the pitch, didn’t account for the turn that was leaving the batsman, slices it high and Jason Roy at long off pouches it safely. Big breakthrough for DD. Props to Tewatia to have the heart to toss the ball again to Lewis.

Lewis c Roy b Rahul Tewatia 48(28)

SIX! A shot that went to moon and back.  Lewis had decided to go for it, didn’t get all of it but still just about enough to clear the straight boundary.

After 8 overs,Mumbai Indians 92/0 ( Suryakumar Yadav 45 , Evin Lewis 40)

Accurate start from Maxwell. Three singles followed by a dot, he was fortunate to get away with a wide down the legside to Lewis, who went for the almighty pull, but couldn’t get bat on ball. Finishes the over with a single. Couple of good overs for DD.

This is now the highest opening for MI against DD in IPL. The previous highest was 87 between Lendl Simmons and Michael Hussey came at Wankhede in 2013-14.

Glenn Maxwell is coming on to bowl.

After 7 overs,Mumbai Indians 87/0 ( Suryakumar Yadav 43 , Evin Lewis 38)

Finally a tidy over for Delhi. Good start from the leg spinner. First over in the innings with no boundaries scored. Lewis is watchful against the spinner, who gives only three singles off his first over.

Leggie, Rahul Tewatia brought on into the attack.

If Yadav doesn’t get you, Lewis will. The Mumbai opening pair looked dominating and intimidating in powerplay collecting 84 runs with a combination of some well-placed boundaries and some brutal hitting. Gambhir tried to mix his bowlers but nothing worked for him. He needs to get a lucky breakthrough from somewhere and hope his team will manage to capitalise on that.

If Yadav doesn’t get you, Lewis will. The Mumbai opening pair looked dominating and intimidating in powerplay collecting 84 runs with a combination of some well-placed boundaries and some brutal hitting. Gambhir tried to mix his bowlers but nothing worked for him. He needs to get a lucky breakthrough from somewhere and hope his team will manage to capitalise on that.

84 is now Mumbai Indians’ highest powerplay score in IPL. Their previous highest was 82/1 against KXIP in Indore in 2017.

After 6 overs,Mumbai Indians 84/0 ( Suryakumar Yadav 41 , Evin Lewis 37)

With three boundaries and a six, MI take 18 off Christian’s first over and have taken full advantage of the fielding restrictions. Lewis and Suryakumar have played in the fifth gear since the word go. Will be interesting to see their approach after the Powerplay.

SIX! A biggie to finish the over and the powerplay. Slower ball, picked up by the batsman to hit it long over long off.

FOUR! If Christian will keep bowling length on offside, Lewis will keep creamming it through the covers. Third boundary of the over.

FOUR! This time Christian has gone fuller and Lewis has smartly waited to pierce the gap this time to right of the cover fielder. Superb batting.

FOUR! Daniel Christian begins with a overpitched delivery and Lewis strikes it powerfully through the covers.

The T20 playbook for IPL is clear on opening options. Send someone who can start firing on all cylinders right away without worrying much about losing his wickets. It’s not necessary to slog if you can collect boundaries with proper cricketing shots, but you must always look for boundaries and sixes and not think about how long you want to play. Mumbai are reaping the benefits of understanding this mantra of success as Suryakumar is hitting the hapless Delhi attack to all corners of Wankhede.

Mohammad Shami’s economy rate of 8.99 in IPL – the worst for any bowler. (Min.100 overs bowled)

After 5 overs,Mumbai Indians 66/0 ( Suryakumar Yadav 41 , Evin Lewis 19)

Mumbai Indians are galloping here! The kids in the stadium are witnessing some really good attacking batting from MI’s openers. Theses two have made the most of Powerplay with still one over to go.

FOUR! Gets this away. Suryakumar walks across slightly and strikes it into the gap on the onside. It has raced away to the midwicket fence for another boundary.

FOUR! Too good from Suryakumar Yadav! Shami bowled the wide yorker and the alert batsman goes down, angles the bat and squeezes it fine to third man boundary.

SIX! Shami starts with a wayward delivery, dragged down on the leg stump, Suryakumar Yadav swivels and pulls it over fine leg boundary.

Mohammad Shami is brought into the attack

Mumbai Indians completed their fifty in 3.4 overs today – their fastest in IPL history.

After 4 overs,Mumbai Indians 52/0 ( Suryakumar Yadav 27 , Evin Lewis 19)

Nadeem has been on the shorter side in his over and he has been made to pay heavily, MI race past 50 inside the 4th over.

SIX! Cannot bowl there to Lewis, he has muscled it into the second tier over the square leg boundary.

FOUR! Short from Nadeem and he pays the price. Suryakumar yadav rocks back and slams to the boundary.

After 3 overs,Mumbai Indians 40/0 ( Suryakumar Yadav 22 , Evin Lewis 13)

Blazing start provided by Suryakumar Yadav and Evin Lewis and this perhaps the best start MI has had in this season. Boult is not having the best of the days.

SIX! Boult is receiving some severe treatment as Lewis slaps the short of length delivery to lon on boundary.

FOUR! That’s an incredible shot. Well-executed, Suryakumar Yadav seems to ducking initially but is able to get some bat on to ramp it over first slip.

FOUR! Superb start to the third over for MI with Kumar playing the text book straight drive.

After 2 overs,Mumbai Indians 25/0 ( Suryakumar Yadav 13 , Evin Lewis 7)

Evin Lewis rides his luck after he top edging a slog sweep that Boult couldn’t cling on running back from short fine leg. Another good over for MI taking 10 runs off Nadeem’s over.

Good move from Mumbai to send Suryakumar to open. In my match analysis for the last game, I wrote Mumbai need to play Dananjaya as their second attacking spin option and break the pair of Ishan and Suryakumar by sending one of them to open the batting and play with freedom. Mumbai have done both for this game.

FOUR! Seldom do see Maxwell misfield at mid-on. More misery for Delhi as Maxwell rolls over the ball and Suryakumar picks up another boundary to wide long on.

Shahbaz Nadeem, left arm orthodox, introduced into the attack.

After 1 overs,Mumbai Indians 15/0 ( Suryakumar Yadav 7 , Evin Lewis 4)

Expensive start for the visitors after Suryakumar Yadav got himself and Mumbai going with a crisp drive that was half stop by mid off fielder for a couple. three boundaries, including four leg byes to fine leg helps the hosts to 15.

FOUR! Touch short by Boult and Lewis pounces on to it to pull from his midriff to square leg fence.

FOUR! Boult pitches it up in search of finding some late movement. Suryakumar strides forward and hits it on the up past the diving mid off fielder for the first boundary of the innings.

This is the first time Suryakumar Yadav is opening the batting for any team in T20 cricket.

A must win game for both teams. Mumbai will be relieved that Hardik Pandya is back in the team. His return has allowed them to play Akila Dananjaya for this game. They will back themselves to open their win account for this season at home against a Delhi team that is still trying to figure out how to play as a team this season.

So Mumbai Indians continuing with their annual game with the initiative of Education and Sports for All (ESA), where they invite underprivileged kids to the Wankhede to witness an IPL game. Over 20,000 enthusiastic children have filled the stadium that will egging on the home side.Will they be able to secure the first win in 2018 and become the first team to win a full-length IPL game batting first? Or will Daredevils secure two points?

We are about to find out. Change in the opening combination for MI as Suryakumar Yadav walks out with Evin Lewis. Trent Boult to begin for Delhi.

Mumbai Indians have lost one match out of six against Delhi Daredevils at Wankhede in IPL.

TEAMS: 

MI XI: Rohit Sharma (c), Evin Lewis, Ishan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Krunal Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Akhila Dananjaya, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Markande, Jasprit Bumrah, Mustafizur Rahman

DD XI: Glenn Maxwell, Jason Roy, Rishabh Pant (wk), Daniel Christian, Vijay Shankar, Shreyas Iyer, Gautam Gambhir (c), Rahul Tewatia, Shahbaz Nadeem, Trent Boult, Mohammed Shami

MI v DD in IPL:

Matches – 20

MI won – 11

DD won – 9

Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma: It’s a good wicket, and wicket’s not gonna change a lot. We gotta do our basics right. Little things that we have to do to win. Last two games we didn’t win the key moments.

Two changes for Mumbai: Akila Dananjaya makes his debut, replacing Ben Cutting. While Hardik Pandya returns to the side, replacing Pradeep Sangwan.

Delhi captain Gautam Gambhir: We’re gonna bowl. It’s a slow wicket and it’s not going to change much. We havent spoken muych about the last game because it was one-and-a-half game. 

Two changes for Delhi: Jason Roy and Dan Christian replace Colin Munro and Chris Morris.

TOSS: Delhi Daredevils win the toss, and skipper Gautam Gambhir elects to bowl first!

Pitch report: There is a good covering of grass. It is very humid. There is slight bit of dryness and both spinners have got good spinners, so should be interesting, says Murali Karthik at the inspection.

Friday’s encounter between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru saw RCB collect their first points of the tournament. Umesh Yadav, who had been ignored by the Indian team management for the tour of South Africa despite making it to the squad, highlighted his usefulness in the format once again with superb figures of 3/23. 

Shantanu Srivastava explains why Umesh is ready to be RCB’s pace spearhead in his article here .

As Delhi Daredevils prepare to register their first victory of the tournament, there’s trouble brewing back home. According to the latest reports, the Delhi High Court has put a hold on Delhi Daredevils’ home matches at the Feroz Shah Kotla due to the dispute over the safety clearance of one of the stadiums buildings.

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Hello and welcome to Firstpost’s coverage of the ninth match of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2018, with Mumbai Indians hosting Delhi Daredevils at the sea-facing Wankhede Stadium, with this being the first fixture of the Saturday double-header — Kolkata Knight Riders taking on Sunrisers Hyderabad in the other. 

Both teams are winless at the moment and will be eager to shrug that tag off when they take on each other. Defending champions Mumbai Indians have witnessed the game slip from their grasp in the last moment against both Chennai Super Kings and the Sunrisers. Delhi Daredevils, on the other hand, have not had luck on their side, with Gautam Gambhir getting off to a rough start in his new stint with the franchise as a captain. 

The tournament has already witnessed a number of thrillers, and this certainly has all the elements to entertain the Wankhede crowd thoroughly.