 "Mumbai Indians opener and former captain Rohit Sharma raises his bat in celebration after completing his half-century against Sunrisers Hyderabad at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. AP")
Mumbai Indians produced another dominant performance on Wednesday, thrashing Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets to complete back-to-back wins against the ‘Orange Army’ in the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Trent Boult (4/26) and Deepak Chahar (2/12) were the key performers among the bowlers as MI restricted SRH to a modest 143/8 after skipper Hardik Pandya opted to field at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.
Rohit Sharma (70 off 46 balls) and Suryakumar Yadav (40 not out off 19 balls) aced another chase for MI later in the evening, helping the visiting team recover from a shaky start to chase the target down with seven wickets and more than four overs to spare . Rohit, who had regained his form with an unbeaten 76 against Chennai Super Kings on Sunday, brought up his second fifty on the trot.
MI jumped to the third spot in the IPL points table as a result of their clinical victory on Wednesday while SRH remained ninth, suffering their sixth loss in eight outings.
Rohit joins Kohli in the 12K club, Bumrah collects wicket No 300
There were quite a few individual milestones achieved in Wednesday’s contest, which we look at in greater detail below:
– Rohit Sharma completed 12,000 runs during his knock of 70, becoming only the second Indian batter after Virat Kohli (13,208) to the milestone. West Indian legend Chris Gayle, Kohli’s former teammate at Royal Challengers Bengaluru, remains the leading run-scorer in the format with 14,562 runs.
– Rohit struck three sixes during his innings, which helped him break Kieron Pollard’s record for the most maximums by a Mumbai Indians batter by taking his tally to 260, compared to 258 for the Trinidadian who currently serves as the team’s batting coach.
– Jasprit Bumrah collected his only wicket of the match in his final delivery of the evening, dismissing Heinrich Klaasen with a full toss. In the process, he completed 300 wickets in the T20 format, becoming the fifth Indian and the 33rd bowler overall to the milestone.
Impact Shorts
More Shorts– Jaydev Unadkat, who was picked in place of Mohammed Shami, completed 100 wickets in the IPL when he grabbed a one-handed catch off his own bowling to dismiss Ryan Rickelton in his very first over of the evening.
– Heinrich Klaasen and ‘Impact Sub’ Abhinav Manohar’s 99-run stand on Wednesday is now the highest for Sunrisers Hyderabad for the sixth wicket, surpassing the 58-run partnership between Romario Shepherd and Washington Sundar against Punjab Kings in 2022.