IPL-2025: Mumbai Indians beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 4 wickets return to race
MI win this by 4 wickets. They stay on 7th. SRH are 9th on the table and have same points as CSK from 7 games. MI were the more clinical and polished side. MI won the toss, elected to bowl on a slightly damp deck. Chahar set the tone in his first two overs but the openers of SRH had close escapes. Abhishek again started off on a quick note but fell for 40.
Head scratched around in his stay and Kishan fell for a single digit score, yet again. In the end, Klaasen and Verma added a few quick runs. They tallied 162 which was well below par. Rohit started off on an attacking note and departed after a cameo.
Rickleton kept playing his shots till he got out and so did SKY. Jacks played a mature knock and Hardik played a cameo to tie the scores. MI lost a couple of wickets and a couple of reviews but got home in the 19th over.
These two points will add to the confidence of the MI unit. SRH will have to go back to the drawing board. They have played three on the road and lost all of them. They have a 2 out of 4 record at home.
Hardik Pandya | MI captain: I think specially the way we bowled today was very smart and spot on. We stuck to simple basic plans. And figured out Certain deliveries were not easy to hit. Credit to the bowlers to sticking to that and making them play some good shots. We were kind of squeezing them. If u see from the look of it, it looked like a good wicket. There was greenness to the grass as well.
The first couple of overs that Deepak bowled, couple of balls got stuck there we realized that may be change of pace will be useful on this wicket. I think as soon as we figured that out, we were backing that with the same intent. We trying to mixing it up. Slower balls even if it is gripping, you try that again and again, batter can line you up. We executed the yorkers very smartly in those middle overs when they couldn’t get any rhythm.
That is the beauty of Jacks. He has three facets. He can be a gun fielder. Can bowl those crucial overs and in batting he has so much explosiveness. That is the reason he is part of the team. We back him. Am excited and today it came off for him. When we needed 42 off 42, we felt it was the tricky part. Rather take your time. Not to get too excited and lose wickets and all of a sudden you are in shambles.
That point of time we realized lets take a couple of overs time. The boundaries will come and as soon as the boundaries come, the pressure will be off. At the end, we kind of pushed the pedal. It is going to be a great game. It is going to be a packed house. We are sure. Just making sure we rest well.
Pat Cummins | SRH captain: It wasn’t the easiest wicket. Few runs short, we would have liked a couple more with the bat. Tricky wicket, when you come here you expect it to be really fluent and fast, just wasn’t that. They bowled really well, shut down a lot of our hitting areas. I thought we had all our bases covered, with 160 you feel like you are a little bit short. We gave it a good crack with the ball.
We thought we needed wickets, we had plenty of death bowling, we knew the impact player would bowl 1-2 overs that’s why we went with Rahul. You have got to play well away from home to make the final, unfortunately it hasn’t clicked so far this season, we have a short break and we go again. Every game we talk about assessing, the boys did well to get through the powerplay and there wasn’t reckless hitting, next game is at home and we know that venue pretty well.
Will Jacks | Player of the Match: The tournament, we had a little bit of a slow start as a team and myself personally. As everyone knows it was incredibly frustrating. But I just want to contribute to wins. Tough start, dropping a catch off the first ball. It dipped and I was late on it. I should have caught it. Just taken me little bit of time to settle into the new franchise. Kind of adjustment period for everyone. Now we are gelling as a team.
We are confident and comfortable to put performances out there. We have a great set up. Loads of star players. I am taking advantage of everyone around me and hopefully it can continue. I would want to do whatever the team requires of me. Be it number 7 Or the number 3 it wad today. It is about communication and good reasoning and I will do as the team requires. As long as the team is winning, I don’t care. If you are bowling slower balls, it was tricky to play. Have been working on being attacking against spin. Coming from England, coming to India, will keep working on it.
