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A complete performance from the Mumbai Indians on home soil tonight, but you can't help but feel whether this came along a touch too late in the tournament. Their bowlers stepped up to the plate in a big way, and on a wicket that aided the bowlers on occasions, Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Varma calculated the run-chase to utmost perfection. A contest at Kolkata awaits them - the Mumbai Indians will be keen on avenging the loss to the Kolkata Knight Riders last week.
They still have three games to play, but the Sunrisers Hyderabad are losing steam going into the back-end of the league stage. That's three losses for them in the last four games - the margin of the win in between being a solitary run. Thought of peaking too early will be natural - the questions will keep piling up for the Orange Army as they sit on fourth now - tied with the Chennai Super Kings and the Lucknow Super Giants on points. They'll meet the latter at home on Wednesday, yearning to pull clear off the middle of the table.
No surprises on the choice of Player Of The Match - Suryakumar Yadav takes the honours for his unbeaten 102 off 51 deliveries! Here's what he has to say: I've been doing this after a very long time - first time after 14th December I've fielded for 20 overs and then batted for almost 18 overs. Little bit tired, hopefully better tomorrow. I feel it was the need of the hour - 3 wickets down when I went in. Someon had to play till the end, and that's what I did. Played for some time - I knew that the dew was heavy, and once the seam goes off, it will be easy for a batter to play. Enjoyed my time. It's from the Mumbai School of arts (his straighter boundaries), I played a lot of first-class cricket for Mumbai and here at the Wankhede, I know what's the right option when the ball is seaming. When the ball stopped seaming, I played all my shots which I practice in the nets. The intent would have been the same had I batted in the first innings, it would have been easier, and I'd have gone big, like how I did today.
Hardik Pandya (Mumbai Indians captain): We want to focus on playing good cricket. We were good with the ball today, still reckon we gave 10-15 runs extra. Nevertheless, the way batters batted was brilliant. I do the stuff which I do, like bowling to the areas, see what the situation requires. Bowl the slower balls when there's grip on the wicket. Felt like the ball was nipping around and thought bowling at thew right areas would be the right option, it worked today. The names he (Chawla) took, those guys can take the game away. Bowling to a shorter side, he asked whether he could bowl with a longer side with two right-handers in. I said "Sorry, PC bhai" looking at the situation. He bowled right areas, I believe instead of having change-ups, you need to be accurate. The margin of errors have become smaller day-by-day. The more accurate you are, the more successful you'll be like PC today. The best part about Suryakumar is that he puts the bowler under so much pressure, the other batters can take advantage of that. It breaks you, the places he hits them, you don't see the ball going there. Sheer confidence - his game has evolved in the last three four years. He's going around as one of the best batters who can change the game in a very different way,. Very lucky to have him, and some more of these innings will be helpful.
Suryakumar Yadav takes the on-the-go 4s of the match honour as well!
Suryakumar Yadav takes the Fantasy Player Of The Match award, and the Super Sixes award as well.
Right then - time for the presentations. To start off - Pat Cummins takes the electric Striker Of The Match!
Tilak Varma: Yeah initially it was really tough. We both were struggling and wanted to bat straight. Initially our plan was to see out the seam and then definitely Mr 360 is there. We didn't decided anything, I was really shocked when Surya Bhai took on Jansen. He bluffed me saying that we should play straight. It's a long season so we will be playing on different minds of wickets. Mentally we were challenging in the wicket. We have been talking about that and it went our way today. Actually I want to play on the situation. I kept my intent, I want to keep my scoring options and it went my way. It was the Surya Bhai show after that. No sir, at that moment he was batting really well so I was telling him to score a century. I wanted to give himself and kept telling him you should score a century.
Pat Cummins (Sunrisers Hyderabad captain): Probably a bit short. Little bit in there on the wicket early. I always thought that the wicket had something about it. Having Sunny out there helped us get to 170. A quick bowler would have been great but I don't think that would have made a difference. It's T20 cricket and doesn't really work out the way you want. SKY took the game away for us. Hopefully a few more fireworks.
Match summary:
Mumbai Indians win by 7 wickets with 16 balls to spare
The Sunrisers Hyderabad new-ball bowling pair of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Marco Jansen missed their line and lengths once too often earlier, but once Jansen got Kishan to nick one to slip, the Sunrisers Hyderabad were right in the contest. The SRH pacers then proceeded to have the MI top-order on strings - Pat Cummins and Bhuvneshwar Kumar took a wicket each and helped their side dig right into the MI middle order, but the Sunrisers sure were taken aback with what came along after that.
An audacious slash over cover from Tilak Varma off Cummins sparked off a awe-striking counter-attack from the Mumbai Indians. And the main source of entertainment came along from the man at the other end - Tilak happily took a back seat and happily witnessed Suryakumar Yadav unfurl his wide array of stroke-play on the SRH pacers. The flow of runs increased after the powerplay - Jansen went for 22 in his second over as Suryakumar brought the Mumbai Indians right back in the contest.
Cummins rotated his bowlers quite a bit going into the halfway mark of the innings, and even though the Sunrisers Hyderabad bowlers managed to keep a lid on proceedings momentarily, they failed to break the 3rd wicket stand. Cramps set into Suryakumar, but given the way he was striking the cricket ball, that was hardly going to hinder his prowess. He targeted Jansen once the tall South African returned, then lofted Bhuvneshwar gloriously over long on, and the equation was back in favour of the hosts.
Cummins's decision to hold spin back till the 16th over didn't quite pay off - Shahbaz, having been introduced late in the piece, couldn't make an impact as Suryakumar fetched a couple of boundaries off him. The equation was down to a run-a-ball soon after, then under it, and all that remained was for Suryakumar Yadav to get to a three-figure score of his own. And he got there in sumptuous fashion - lofting a low full toss from Natarajan to seal the deal. Presentations coming up in a bit...
A knock to savour for this Wankhede crowd! Suryakumar Yadav finishes the game just how one would have imagined! Helmet's off, and he raises his bat and helmet and soaks all the applause in!
17.2 T Natarajan to Suryakumar Yadav, SIX! Surya finishes it off in style and also completes his century in the process. A low full toss outside off, SKY makes some space and goes down the ground, was a low full toss and clears the widish long-off fence. Mumbai Indians win by 7 wickets.
17.1 T Natarajan to Tilak Varma, digs out the fuller one around middle, down towards square leg and takes a single.
Umm... apologies, there is no nervous 90s for this man! A matter of 7 more runs for the hosts - the first thing the entire stadium would want from Tilak now is to get to the other end.
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167/3score
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1
4
4
6
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Suryakumar Yadav*
96(50)
Tilak Varma
36(31)
Pat Cummins
1/35
16.6 Pat Cummins to Suryakumar Yadav, SIX! That has been dispatched for a maximum. Fractionally shorter a tad outside off, was a slower one and SKY waits for it and fats that away well over the deep square leg fence.
Suryakumar enters the nervous 90s...
16.5 Pat Cummins to Suryakumar Yadav, FOUR! Back-to-back boundaries for Surya. Back of a length delivery a shade outside off, SKY pulls it away from his presence, in the gap and off to the deep midwicket fence it goes.
16.4 Pat Cummins to Suryakumar Yadav, FOUR! Back of a length pace-off delivery outside off, SKY pulls it away in the gap, perfectly placed down towards the deep square leg region. SKY is playing a blinder here.
16.3 Pat Cummins to Tilak Varma, Tilak makes some room and dabs away the pace-off delivery a shade outside off, down towards the third man region and takes a single.
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