SKY hundred ( Source : IPL )
While it only moved them from no. 10 to no. 9 on the points table, Mumbai Indians still stomped over SRH at the Wankhede Stadium in Match No. 55 of IPL 2024.
MI elected to bowl first on a surface with swing, and that seemed to pay dividends as other than Travis Head (48 off 30), all the other top-order batters from SRH couldn’t get going. Marco Jansen tried to do some things with the bat, but it wasn’t until skipper Pat Cummins’ (35* off17) late burst that pushed SRH to 173. Both Piyush Chawla (3 for 33) and Hardik Pandya (3 for 31) were at their best with the ball.
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SRH did start waywardly with the ball, giving away too many extras, but ultimately taking three wickets before the 5-over mark. But then began the SKY show. Suryakumar Yadav (102* off 51) then stole the show without giving the SRH bowlers an inch of breathing space as he simply continued to plunder with some much-needed support from Tilak Varma. MI then chased the target off in 17.2 overs.
Here are some interesting stats from the match:
1 – Hardik Pandya’s bowling figures of 3/31 are the best by a Mumbai Indians captain in the IPL. The previous record was 3/32 by Harbhajan Singh against PBKS in 2008.
1 – Pat Cummins and Sanvir Singh’s unbeaten partnership of 37 for the ninth wicket is the highest for that wicket for SRH. The previous record was 36 by Umran Malik and Abdul Samad against RR in 2022.
1 – Ishan Kishan made his 48th dismissal as a wicketkeeper for MI. This is the highest for the 5-time champions going past Quinton de Kock’s 47.
3 – Naman Dhir’s 9-ball duck, is the joint third longest in IPL history. The full list of players who scored a duck in as many or more balls is:
13 balls – Nayan Doshi vs Kochi, Indore, 2011
10 balls – Davy Jacobs vs Delhi Capitals, 2012
10 balls – Shane Watson vs RCB, Chennai, 2019
9 balls – Shane Wayson vs DC, Chennai, 2019
9 balls – Nicholas Pooran vs RR, Pune, 2022
9 balls – Naman Dhir vs SRH, Wankhede, 2024
1 – Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Varma’s unbeaten partnership of 143 is the highest for MI for the fourth wicket. The previous record was an unbeaten 131 by Rohit Sharma and Corey Anderson against KKR in 2015.
4 – Taking 51 balls, Suryakumar Yadav’s hundred was the fourth fastest for MI.
2 – Suryakumar Yadav became the second player to score two centuries for Mumbai Indians. Rohit Sharma is the only other one with two while Cameron Green, Lendl Simmons, Sanath Jayasuriya and Sachin Tendulkar have one each.
6 – Suryakumar Yadav registered his sixth T20 century. Among Indian players, only Rohit Sharma(8) and Virat Kohli(9) have more. Both KL Rahul and Ruturaj Gaikwad have as many.