The modest run-chase saw the hosts lose the wickets of Evin Lewis (5), Ishan Kishan (0) and skipper Rohit Sharma (2) for single digit scores inside the power play period.
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It was a repeat of what happened to the visitors during their innings as bowlers dominated the entire run chase.
Surya Kumar Yadav though held one end up till the 15th over, but his lone 34-run hand could not take his team to the much-coveted win. They withstood some nervous moments but a flurry of strokes ensured that Mumbai reached 50/3 in nine overs.
WICKET! SRH are still in the game! Hence it is predicted that in today’s match, Mumbai Indians will win against Dunrisers Hyderabad as it is a home match for them.
The 30-year-old Trinidadian has endured a poor start to this year’s IPL, so far managing just 63 runs from five innings. Rashid Khan’s four over included a massive 16 dot balls and his maiden over in the 17th over of the game was complete gold dust. Siddarth Kaul too was lethal with his 3/23.
Rashid Khan was caught behind off the bowling of Bumrah, before Markande clean bowled Basil Thampi (3) to reduce the Sunrisers to 106/8. With wickets quickly collapsing, where can SRH get to from here?
Pandya looked stunned after the ball narrowly missed the bails.
WICKET! What was Shakib doing there?
Kunal Pandya and Suryakumar Yadav did try and salvage the Mumbai pride but with a solid partnership of 40 but the joy was short lived as wickets continued to tumble. SRH will not be happy with this performance.
Among the batsmen, Sunrisers would hope Shikhar Dhawan, who had suffered a hit in the elbow during the match against KXIP and missed a match, finds his touch after getting out cheaply in the last game.
Sunrisers defended a modest 118 against Mumbai Indians last night to bring their campaign back on track after suffering back-to-back defeats.
SRH’s two defeats so far, one of them against Kings XI Punjab (KXIP), will not weigh too heavily against it, when the two sides meet at the Rajiv Gandhi worldwide stadium on Thursday. This match is the sixth match for both the team in this IPL season.
But they will be happy to collect two points that pull them level with second-placed Chennai Super Kings, while the Indians remain locked with Delhi Daredevils at the bottom.
MI will have a lot to worry about after having narrowly lost the first three matches, games which they should have won. Overall it was the second lowest total defended by a team in the league’s history. They are 20/2 at the end of two overs.
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Kaul then ran through the Mumbai lower order as the Sunrisers ultimately clinched a rather comfortable 31-run win in front of a stunned Wankhede Stadium.
