When Mumbai Indians stole a last-ball six-wicket victory, Ricky Ponting’s exasperated look stated all of it. The coach may see that Delhi Capitals, very similar to Prithvi Shaw, was refusing to study from failures with the bat and the ball.
Despite making heavy climate of the chase, Mumbai Indians tasted its first win of the season. The defeat stretched Capitals’ winless streak to 4 matches and saved it on the backside of the 10-team factors desk.
After bowling out Capitals for 172 within the last over – with leg-spinner Piyush Chawla and pacer Jason Behrendorff taking three wickets every – Mumbai briskly laid the muse. Openers Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan discovered the ropes virtually at will within the PowerPlay, which produced 68 runs.
Rohit discovered his contact with 4 fours and three sixes whereas Kishan responded with six hits to the fence, together with three in-a-row off Bangladesh’s left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman.
Though the stand was damaged following the run-out of Kishan – the batter reluctantly sacrificed his wicket for the sake of his skipper – within the eighth over, Tilak Varma joined Rohit and raised a 50-ball 68-run second-wicket stand.
The dismissals of Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (0) and Rohit, who fell to a one-handed catch by wicketkeeper Abishek Porel, rekindled the Capitals’ hopes however Cameron Green and Tim David guided Mumbai house by finishing the 2 runs wanted off the final ball.
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Source: sportstar.thehindu.com