Mumbai Indians 174 for 3 (Suryakumar 102*, Tilak 37, Bhuvneshwar 1-22) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 173 for 8 (Head 48, Cummins 35*, Pandya 3-31, Chawla 3-33) by 7 wickets
But Suryakumar decided to do Suryakumar things as he launched an attack on the SRH bowlers, Marco Jansen in particular, to get things back on track. Tilak Varma played the perfect second foil with 37 not out off 32 adding 143 off 79 balls with Suryakumar to help Mumbai seal the win in 17.2 overs.
First nine balls: 26 for 0
Chasing 174 at a venue where scores in excess of 180 have been breached in six out of eight innings coming into this game, did not feel like a daunting ask, but the SRH bowlers made life extremely tough for the batters. There were oodles of swing and seam available and initially, the bowers were not able to control the swing. They bowled 18 extras in the first three overs, but once they found their lengths, batting started to feel like an arduous task. The ball zipped off the surface, the batters were beaten multiple times, and wickets started to fall.
It was the Test match length that got them the wickets. Jansen first struck with a seaming delivery that Ishan Kishan could only edge to first slip. And when it’s the Test match length that we are talking about, how can the Australia Test captain not come into the picture? Pat Cummins bowled a sensational first over, a wicket-maiden that included getting rid of Rohit Sharma through a big top-edge. Bhuvneshwar then got Naman Dhir for a nine-ball duck flashing to first slip.
Not a single run was scored off the bat between overs 1.3 to 4.4 with Mumbai all over the place.