Suryakumar Yadav (52 off 36) smashed a superb fifty to assist Mumbai Indians attain 161/4 in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders within the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 match on the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune on Wednesday.
With 55 for 3 in 11 overs, Mumbai have been in hassle however Suryakumar performed a strong knock together with Tilak Varma (38 off 27) to assist his facet submit a good complete. They added 83 runs for the fourth wicket.
“I feel this can be a good rating on the board. The wicket continues to be sticky and I feel our bowlers can exploit. We determined to go along with the timeout after 13 overs, wished to plan how we go about, and that’s precisely what occurred,” said Suryakumar, who is making his return to cricket after injury.
“I just wanted to spend some time in the middle, work the bowling around, play some 15-16 balls and then go after the bowling. 161 is a winning total, according to me. I didn’t find any dew, it’ll remain sticky and we’re confident in defending it,” he added.
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Mumbai Indians, requested to bat first, had a rocky begin as Umesh Yadav dismissed skipper Rohit Sharma to present KKK the primary breakthrough within the third over of the match. The wicket introduced debutant Dewald Brevis on the crease. He regarded in strong contact even in opposition to an aggressive Umesh and his stroke-play injected a little bit of momentum into Mumbai’s innings and reached 35/1 after 6 overs.
But Brevis (29 off 19) smacked the primary ball he confronted from Varun Chakravarthy for a six however the shot was then adopted by three dots. Brevis missed the fifth ball of the over and Billings was fast to whip off the bails.
Suryakumar, who was enjoying his first match of the season, then joined opener Ishan Kishan on the crease. with the run-rate dropping with each passing over and the stress constructing on Kishan, the southpaw’s struggling innings lastly got here to an finish after Cummins dismissed him on a brief ball.
Taking full benefit of the dropped catch by Ajinkya Rahane, Tilak Varma hit a number of adventurous pictures and gave some impetus to Mumbai’s innings whereas Suryakumar additionally complimented him effectively with few well timed boundaries. Both Suryakumar and Varma saved the scoreboard ticking and helped MI cross the 100-run mark within the seventeenth over of the innings.
From there on, it was no trying again for Suryakumar and Varma, who went on rampage and scored 17 and 14 runs respectively within the seventeenth and 18th over respectively. After hitting a superb fifty Suryakumar obtained out within the first ball of the twentieth over however Kieron Pollard offered the glowing fireworks by smashing Cummins for 3 sixes.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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