Mumbai pull off another heist, win by 13 runs

Mumbai Indians (MI) have registered their second win in the IPL 2021 season. In the 9th match of the season, Mumbai defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 13 runs. There were many big records of sixes in the match. Like Rohit Sharma has become the highest sixes Indian in IPL. At the same time, Kieron Pollard has matched Virat Kohli by completing his 200 sixes in the tournament.

Mumbai captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and batted first. The team scored 150 runs losing 5 wickets. In response, the Hyderabad team could score only 137 runs. For the team, Johnny Bairstow scored the highest 43 runs off 22 balls. Captain David Warner scored 36 and Vijay Shankar scored 28 runs. Rahul Chahar and Trent Boult took 3-3 wickets.

Hyderabad could not win the match despite a good start

Chasing the target of 151 runs, the Sunrisers team started fast. Opener David Warner and Johnny Bairstow shared a 67-run partnership off 44 balls.

It was the opening partnership of the first 50 or more runs of this season for Hyderabad. The team lost the first wicket as Bairstow.

Bairstow hit out to Krunal's ball in the 8th over. His leg was stuck on the stump. The team got its second blow on the 71st run.

Manish Pandey, who came to bat at number three, scored just 2 runs off 7 balls. Rahul Chahar sent him to the pavilion.

Hyderabad got their third and big blow at the score of 90. Captain Warner also returned to the pavilion. Warner was runout as he took a run.

The team was able to complete 100 runs that in the 15th over of the innings, Rahul Chahar sent half of Hyderabad's team pavilion with 2 wickets.

In Rahul's over, Virat Singh was caught by 11 and Abhishek Sharma 2 runs. Hyderabad team had lost 5 wickets for 104 runs.

The team needed 27 runs to win in the last 3 overs with 5 wickets left. Vijay Shankar and Abdul Samaj were frozen at the crease.

The match was again reversed in the 18th over. Abdul Samad and Rashid Khan were out in this over. At this time 21 runs were needed in two overs.

Vijay Shankar, who was frozen at the crease, also returned to the pavilion in the 19th over after scoring 28 runs. From here, 16 runs were needed in the last over.

In the last over, Trent Boult took the match to his name with 2 wickets. He bowled Bhuvneshwar and Khalil Ahmed.

Mujib and Shankar took 2-2 wickets

Earlier, Mumbai Indians scored 150 runs losing 5 wickets. Team opener Quinton Dickock scored the highest 40 off 39 balls. Kieron Pollard scored 35 and captain Rohit Sharma scored 32 runs. Pollard also equaled Virat Kohli, hitting 201 sixes in the IPL. Mujib ur Rehman and Vijay Shankar took 2–2 wickets each for Hyderabad.

Rohit Rohit, the Indian who hit the most sixes, hit 2 sixes in an innings of 32 runs in the match. With this, he became the highest Indian to score 217 sixes in the tournament. In this case, he left behind Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who has so far hit 216 sixes. Rohit is at number three in terms of overall maximum sixes. Chris Gayle is on top with 351 sixes. De Villiers has scored 237 six at number two.

Pollard left Kohli behind in terms of 200 sixes in the lowest match. Kiron Pollard has completed his 200 sixes in the IPL. He became the sixth player of the tournament to achieve this feat. Chris Gayle is on top in terms of maximum sixes. He has so far hit 351 sixes. Pollard and Virat Kohli have hit 201 sixes each. However, Pollard is ahead of him in terms of the fewest matches. Pollard has hit 167 and Kohli has hit these sixes in 194 matches.

Pollard's longest six of the season: Kieron Pollard hit the 105-meter-long six, the longest six of the season. Pollard hit this six off the first ball of the 17th over. The over was of Mujib ur Rehman.

Vijay and Mujib stopped Mumbai on a small score

Mumbai Indians started fast. Captain Rohit Sharma and Quinton Dickock added 55 runs off 39 balls. The team's first wicket fell as Rohit.

Dickock held one end and together with Suryakumar could add only 16 runs to the team's second setback. Suryakumar also returned to the pavilion.

All these wickets were taken by all-rounder Vijay Shankar. He got Rohit caught out by Virat Singh. While Suryakumar himself was caught.

Mumbai got their third blow on 98 runs. Mujib ur Rehman got opener Dickock caught out. Dickock had added 27 runs with Ishaan.

Mujib gave Mumbai a fourth blow at the score of 114. Ishaan Kishan returned to the pavilion after scoring 12 runs off 21 balls. He was caught out for a long shot.

Hardik Pandya also disappointed the fans. He was caught out after scoring 7 runs off 5 balls. Mumbai got their 5th blow for 131 runs.

Despite a good start, the Mumbai team missed out on a big score, losing consecutive wickets. The team scored 49 runs in the last 5 overs.