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Brilliant ton by Yadav gives Mumbai rare win

olympics06 May 2024 18:25| © MWP
By:Patrick Compton
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A magnificent unbeaten century from Suryakumar Yadav swept the Mumbai Indians to a seven-wicket win over the Sunrisers Hyderabad in their Tata IPL clash at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Monday night.

The win keeps Mumbai in contention – mathematically – for the playoffs but a lot has to go their way if they are going to progress.

This was only their fourth win in 12 matches. Sunrisers were hurt by the defeat, with their run-rate slipping a notch although they retain their position of fourth in the table.

Yadav showed all his class in a stunning innings that yielded 12 fours and six sixes, fittingly ending the match in the 18th over with his sixth maximum, driving a full-toss from T Natarajan over long-off to bring up his century and the win.

Yadav and Tilak Varma (37 off 32 balls), who added 143, came together with the home side under some pressure in the fifth over with Mumbai on 31/3.

It was a chaotic powerplay with Sunrisers conceding 18 extras in the first 31 runs but also picking up wickets with Marco Jansen – who otherwise had a poor outing, conceding 45 in three overs – getting the first wicket, Ishan Kishan, caught at slip on a pitch that helped the pace bowlers while the ball remained hard and shiny.

The key wicket of Rohit Sharma fell next to Pat Cummins, getting a leading edge that was snapped up by wicketkeeper Heinrich Klaasen and then Naman Dhir went for a duck in nine balls, caught by Jansen at slip.

Typically Yadav began explosively, indifferent to the tension around him, as he played some electrifying strokes all round the ground, including more boundaries in the “V” than usual, as well as his favourite pulls and clips to leg.

During his 51-ball innings he appeared to suffer a groin strain, reducing his ability to run quick ones and twos, but he simply turned his attention to hitting the ball over the ropes instead.

It was his second IPL hundred and surely one of the most brilliant of this year’s competition.

PANDYA, CHAWLA SHINE WITH THE BALL

Earlier, Mumbai Indians’ skipper Hardik Pandya and Piyush Chawla shared six wickets to restrict the Sunrisers Hyderabad to 173 for eight after they won the toss and inserted their opponents.

But a late cameo of 33 in 16 balls (2x4s, 2x6s) from Sunrisers’ captain Pat Cummins gave the visitors a reasonably competitive total.

Once again the Sunrisers’ openers, Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma, gave their team a good start as the 50 partnership came up in 33 balls.

Head, however, enjoyed a large slice of fortune in the early stages of his innings, edging boundaries in the powerplay and then being bowled by a no-ball from Mumbai debutant Anshul Kamboj.

The always impressive Jasprit Bumrah (1-23 in four overs) claimed the first wicket on 56 when Sharma fished outside his off-stump to give a diving wicketkeeper Kishan a catch.

Debutant paceman Anshul Kamboj, who also had Head dropped at third man, finally claimed his first wicket in the IPL when he bowled Mayank Agarwal.

Head, who played some fine strokes in between his moments of luck, was finally dismissed by legspinner Piyush Chawla, sweeping him straight to deep square-leg.

This was the first of three wickets to fall for six runs with Nitish Kumar Reddy caught off Pandya and the normally destructive Heinrich Klaasen (2) playing on to Chawla.

Jansen struck a few blows before being bowled by Pandya and Shahbaz Ahmed and Shahbaz Ahmed also fell to Mumbai’s skipper who claimed 3-31 in his four overs.

The final wicket to fall was that of Abdul Samad, leg before to Chawla who finished with the fine analysis of 3-33.

Cummins’s late onslaught gave the Sunrisers’ innings a gloss of respectability that initially looked challenging but was eventually unlocked by the brilliance of Yadav.

MUMBAI INDIANS: 1 Ishan Kishan (wk), 2 Rohit Sharma, 3 Naman Dhir, 4 Suryakumar Yadav, 5 Tilak Varma, 6 Hardik Pandya (capt), 7 Tim David, 8 Anshul Kamboj, 9 Piyush Chawla, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Nuwan Thushara

SUNRISERS HYDERABAD: 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Travis Head, 3 Mayank Agarwal, 4 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 5 Heinrich Klaasen (wk), 6 Abdul Samad, 7 Shahbaz Ahmed, 8 Marco Jansen, 9 Pat Cummins (capt), 10 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 11 T Natarajan

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