IPL Live 2020 / Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals by 9 wickets

In the 51st match of the 13th season of IPL, Mumbai Indians defeated Delhi Capitals by 9 wickets. This is Delhi's fourth consecutive defeat. With this, he has made his hopes of reaching the play-offs difficult. Now he will have to win against Royal Challengers Bangalore in his next match. At the same time, Mumbai retained the top with 18 points.

Batting after losing the toss in the match played in Dubai, Delhi gave Mumbai a target of 111 runs. In response, Mumbai scored 111 for one wicket in 14.2 overs. Mumbai opener Ishaan Kishan hit an unbeaten 72 in the IPL with his sixth fifty. Suryakumar Yadav remained unbeaten on 12 runs. At the same time, Enrich Nortje of Delhi got one wicket.

Mumbai's early starters Mumbai openers Quinton Dickock and Ishaan Kishan played finely and carried the team's score forward. Both scored 38 runs in the power-play. Ishaan Kishan then increased the runrate by placing an aggressive shot. There was a 68-run opening partnership between the two. Enrich Nortje broke the partnership by dismissing Dickock (26).

The shortest target of the season in Dubai, before Delhi scored 110 runs in 9 overs in 20 overs. This is the shortest target of the season in Dubai. Earlier here, Kings XI Punjab gave the target of 127 runs to Sunrisers Hyderabad. At the same time, Mumbai's Jaspreet Bumrah and Trent Boult got 3-3 wickets. Rahul Chahar and Nathan Culter-Nile get 1-1 wickets

Both openers inexpensively did not start well. Opener Shikhar Dhawan could not open his account for the second consecutive match and was dismissed on the third ball of the first over of the match. After this, Prithvi Shaw also could not last long and was dismissed by 10 runs. Both openers were dismissed by Trent Boult.

Captain Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant tried to handle the innings after both the openers were dismissed early. Both shared a 35-run partnership for the third wicket. Both got off to a good start, but could not convert them into big scores. Iyer was out for 25 off Rahul Chahar. After this, Pant (21) was followed by Jaspreet Bumrah.

Rohit still not fit: Mumbai captain Rohit Sharma, who was injured against Kings XI Punjab, is still not fully fit. In such a situation, Kieron Pollard took the captaincy of the team for the fourth consecutive match. In Rohit's absence, Saurabh Tiwari was included in the playing eleven.

2 changes were made in Mumbai and 3 changes in Delhi. Hardik Pandya was given rest. Jayant Yadav was replaced in his team. In addition, Nathan Cullter-Nile was replaced in the playing eleven in place of James Pattinson. At the same time, 3 changes were made in Delhi. Ajinkya Rahane, Akshar Patel and Tushar Deshpande were not included in the squad. He was replaced by Praveen Dubey, Prithvi Shaw and Harshal Patel in the team.