Mumbai Indians 160 for 3 (Rayudu 68, Simmons 68) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 157 for 3 (Finch 68, Warner 55*) by seven wickets
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
Lendl Simmons and Ambati Rayudu hit half-centuries to lead Mumbai
Indians to an emphatic win over Sunrisers Hyderabad. The victory, Mumbai
Indians' third in nine matches, kept the defending champions' campaign
barely alive. Sunrisers Hyderabad were tied down after choosing to bat
for all but the last two overs of their innings. David Warner helped his
side take 33 off those two to push the total to 157, but it hardly
mattered, as Simmons and Rayudu put on 130 runs for the second wicket in
14.3 overs to haul Mumbai Indians home with eight balls to spare.
Mumbai Indians lost CM Gautam second ball of the second over to
Bhuvneshwar Kumar, but Simmons and Rayudu kicked on after a sedate
start. The release came when Irfan Pathan was brought on following a
couple of tight overs each from Dale Steyn and Bhuvneshwar. Simmons, who
had tried to slog Steyn without success, found Irfan's pace to his
liking, and slammed him for a couple of sixes and a four.
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Rayudu welcomed Amit Mishra with a charge and a straight six, and Mumbai
Indians weren't looking back, with the boundaries coming regularly.
Simmons did not let the legspinners settle and swung Karn Sharma for a
four and a six. Rayudu gave the same treatment to Irfan as the
allrounder went for 29 in two overs.
Shikhar Dhawan went back to Steyn in the 13th over but Mumbai Indians
were approaching 100 by that time. Rayudu and Simmons took the fast
bowler for a four each. Sunrisers had a chance in the next over but KL
Rahul put down a top-edged skier off Simmons at deep midwicket with the
batsman on 59 and the team score on 110. Simmons and Rayudu fell in
successive overs for 68 each eventually but the game was almost over by
then.
Dhawan felt Sunrisers were about 20 runs short on what he had called a
good batting surface at the toss as he chose to bat. Dhawan himself
scratched around for a while before being bowled by a full inswinger
from Lasith Malinga. Rahul ran himself out going for a non-existent
single but Aaron Finch had looked in nice touch all along.
He drove Corey Anderson crisply down the ground for fours and went after
Pragyan Ojha, lofting and driving the left-arm spinner repeatedly
through the off side for boundaries. Warner joined Finch and hit the odd
boundary as well but the pair was not able to dominate amid some tight
bowling from Harbhajan Singh and Jasprit Bumrah.
Finch holed out off Malinga in the penultimate over for 68 off 62 but
Warner stepped up and launched the fast bowler for a couple of sixes. He
ended the innings with successive fours off Kieron Pollard to finish on
55 off 31. Given Sunrisers' reputation of successfully defending
moderate totals at their home ground, 157 did not appear to be an easy
chase, but Rayudu and Simmons made it look so.
Abhishek Purohit is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
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