Sunrisers Hyderabad found late momentum with the bat to post a decent 162/5 against Mumbai Indians on a tricky Wankhede pitch in their Indian Premier League match on Thursday.
Innings Break
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Clinical bowling display from #MI 🙌 #SRH set a target of 1️⃣6️⃣3️⃣ 🎯
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The Wankhede surface was providing grip and turn for the spinners while slower deliveries worked well for fast-bowlers, forcing the Sunrisers Hyderabad batters, known for their explosive starts, to go on the defence. They struggled to adapt to the wicket for the most part of the innings.
However, they managed to steal 57 runs in the last five overs --giving the team some much-needed acceleration. MI bowlers were spot-on in formulating their plans and near-perfect in their execution with Jasprit Bumrah delivering a measly 4-0-21-1. Trent Boult nailed his yorkers again to return 4-0-29-1 while spinner Will Jacks produced an impressive 3-0-14-2.
The SRH struggle was evident from the start even as Abhishek Sharma stroked his way to 40 off 28 balls with seven boundaries.
A crucial partnership of 26*(11) 👏
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Aniket Verma 🤝 Pat Cummins
Will #SRH defend this? 🤔
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It all started with an eventful first over when the two SRH openers got a reprieve each off Deepak Chahar.
Abhishek went down the wicket, swinging his bat on the first delivery. The ball shaped away slightly to take the edge but Jacks failed to get hold of it.
On the fourth delivery, Travis Head played one straight to Karn Sharma at midwicket where he failed to pluck a low catch as the ball fell just short of him.
Abhishek looked to be hitting his strides when he smacked three fours off Chahar in the fifth over but there was just no momentum gained.
Jacks then snaffled the key wicket of Ishan Kishan by getting the former MI player stumped for a mere two.
At the other end, Head was unable to open up even as he tried his best to cut loose. Despite having caught off a no-ball with Pandya overstepping in the 10th over, Head failed to capitalise as he fell for an ordinary 29-ball 28.
Such was the impact of MI's control that the first six of the game came as late as in the 18th over -- the best one of SRH's innings when Heinrich Klaasen (37 off 28 balls, 3x4s, 2x6s) took 21 runs to spoil Chahar's figures (4-0-47-0).
In the final over, Aniket Verma hit a couple of sixes and Pat Cummins smacked one to take vital 22 runs off Pandya.
