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Put in to bat, Sunrisers Hyderabad, driving on Vivrant Sharma and Mayank Agarwal’s opening wicket partnership of 140 runs, posted 200/5.
In reply, a dominant Mumbai Indians chased down the goal with 12 balls to spare.
With the win, Mumbai Indians moved to the fourth spot and seal their playoff spot.
The destiny of their playoff aspirations had hinged on the result of the final league stage match of the season between the Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Titans in Bengaluru.
Finally Mumbai made it to the ultimate 4 after RCB misplaced their last league match by six wickets to GT, who topped the standings with 20 factors.
Inexperienced turned the sixth Mumbai Indians batter to hit an IPL century and the third abroad participant to take action for the 5-time champions.
Inexperienced smacked eight fours and eight sixes throughout his unbeaten 100 which got here off simply 47 balls. He added 53 runs with Suryakumar Yadav (25 not out) for the unbroken third wicket to take MI over the road.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar drew the primary blood when he dismissed Ishan Kishan (14) within the third over. Rohit acquired a lifeline within the fifth over when Sanvir Singh dropped a troublesome catch at midwicket off Nitish Kumar Reddy.
However Inexperienced offered the impetus, as his 4 boundaries and a few sixes took MI to 60/1 after the powerplay.
Whereas Inexperienced introduced up his fifty off solely 20 balls, within the ninth over, Rohit was off to a modest begin, hitting his first six solely on the 22nd ball that he confronted.
The MI skipper Rohit accomplished his second fifty of this IPL, off 31 balls, and his second-wicket stand with Inexperienced took the whole previous the 100-run mark. Quickly after this, Rohit acquired one other reprieve when Sanvir spilled a regulation catch at cowl off Kartik Tyagi.
Nevertheless, a sensational catch from Reddy had Mayank Dagar celebrating Rohit’s wicket wildly within the 14th over. Rohit’s 56 got here off 37 balls (8x4s, 1x6s), having added 128 off 65 balls with Inexperienced.
Earlier, Unheralded Uttarakhand pacer Madhwal nailed his yorkers persistently on the demise as Mumbai Indians restricted Sunrisers Hyderabad to 200 for five of their last IPL encounter, right here on Sunday.
With one eye on Bengaluru climate the place RCB is taking over Gujarat Titans, Madhwal’s four-wicket haul ensured that SRH ended with not less than 15 in need of what could possibly be thought of a par-score on a flat Wankhede monitor.
This was after a century opening stand between seasoned opener Mayank Agarwal (83 off 45 balls) and rookie Vivrant Sharma (69 off 47 balls) threatened to take the sport away, within the IPL right here on Sunday.
The pair of Agarwal and Vivrant placed on the very best opening stand for SRH this season, reaching 53/Zero after the powerplay with out taking any undue dangers, and ultimately placing on 140 for the seventh century stand of this IPL.
Courtesy Madhwal’s four for 37, which included two deadly block-hole deliveries to scrub up in-form Heinrich Klaasen (18) and Harry Brook (0), SRH managed solely 26 in final three overs.
For a bowling unit that has allowed contests to float away, right here on the Wankhede Stadium on a number of events, MI made common inroads to maintain SRH inside attain.
Nevertheless, the duty is an inconceivable one for MI as they must rating 201 in simply 11.four overs, or in 70 balls, to overhaul Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Internet Run Price.
Taking part in in his third sport this season and for the primary time as an opener, the left-handed Vivrant gave a nice instance of himself with strokes on each the perimeters of the wickets.
Vivrant struck seven fours and a six to convey up his maiden IPL half-century within the 10th over, as SRH cruised within the first half of the competition unscathed and unperturbed by MI’s bowlers.
Agarwal too ended his drought, hitting a six and a 4 off Jason Behrendorff within the 13th over to convey up his first fifty of this season, and celebrated with a gesture that batters normally do upon reaching the three-figure mark – taking off the helmet and arms stretched large.
On a benign pitch with excessive sizzling and humid situations, there was additionally not a lot that the Mumbai bowlers may do, on what additionally has been batting-friendly floor right here.
With no motion or flip off the floor, the MI bowlers needed to take care of bowling disciplined line and lengths, and to their credit score, they by no means actually allowed the SRH openers to get away.
The primary breakthrough got here within the 14th over when Madhwal had Vivrat caught at deep mid-wicket, along with his 69 off 47 balls (9 fours, 2 sixes) being the best rating because the first IPL for any Indian participant in a debut innings.
Madhwal continued to make use of the brief ball nicely and within the 17th over, he had Agarwal caught behind for 83, which got here off 46 balls together with eight fours and 4 sixes.
(With inputs from PTI)
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