Green inspires Mumbai Indians to victory over Sunrisers

Australian Cameron Green smashed an exhilarating 100 not out from only 47 balls to power the Mumbai Indians to an impressive victory by eight-wickets in their final IPL group match against the hapless Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.

Chasing 201 for victory Green and Suryakumar Yadav (25* from 16 balls) ensured the result with two overs to spare following a fine 56 from 37 balls (8x4, 1x6) from captain Rohit Sharma.

The result moved the five-time champions into the fourth and final play-off place and they will take part in the knockout stages of the tournament if the Royal Challengers Bangalore fail to beat defending champions Gujarat Titans in their final match in Bangalore on Sunday night.

Green made a flying start after the early loss of Ishan Kishan (14) and never looked back utilising his immense power to strike eight sixes and reaching his maiden T20 century with his ninth four which won the game.

Earlier an opening partnership of 140 between Mayank Agarwal and Vivrant Sharma inspired bottom of the log Sunrisers to a respectable total of 200-5 after being asked to bat first.

Agarwal belted 83 from just 46 balls with eight fours and four sixes before edging to ‘keeper Ishan Kishan while Vivrant, in his first IPL innings, accelerated to 69 from 47 balls (9x4, 2x6) before slicing a full-toss to the cover boundary.

New Zealander Glenn Phillips (1) flicked another full-toss from Englishman Chris Jordan to deep backward square leg but and Heinrich Klaasen, promoted to number three, was unable to continue his glorious form in the tournament when he missed a slog-sweep against seamer Akash Madhwal (4-0-37-4) and was bowled for 18 from 13 balls with two fours.

At 174-1 in the 17th over a total well in excess of 200 seemed a formality

but Madhwal inspired a late collapse including bowling Harry Brook for a first ball duck.

Sunrisers’ captain, Aiden Markram, drove the final delivery of the innings from Jordan (4-0-42-1) over long on for six to finish 13 not out from seven balls and push his team to 200.

MUMBAI INDIANS: Rohit Sharma (captain), Ishan Kishan (wkt), Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Chris Jordan, Piyush Chawla, Jason Behrendorff, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal

SUNRISERS HYDERABAD: Mayank Agarwal, Vivrant Sharma, Aiden Markram (captain), Heinrich Klaasen (wkt), Harry Brook, Nitish Reddy, Glenn Phillips, Sanvir Singh, Mayank Dagar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik