In the 17th match of Dream 11 IPL, current champions beats Sun Risers Hyderabad by 34 runs.
After winning the toss Mumbai decided to bat first. With a sensible knock from Quinton de Kock, MI managed to score 205 with the loss of five wickets.
The South African wicket keeper scored 67 runs of 39 balls with four boundaries and four sixes.
Suryakumar Yadav (27), Ishan Kishan (31), Hardik Pandya (28), Kiron Pollard (25) and Kurnal Pandya (20) where the other run getters for MI.
Sandeep Sharma, Sidharth Kaul and Rashid Khan were the wicket takers for SRH. While Sharma and Kaul took 2 wickets each, Rashid managed to pick the crucial wicket of de Kock.
Even though, SRH got a cracking start, they failed to carry forward the momentum and ended up in 174 for 7.
Captain David Warner scored a half century and became the top scorer of their side. He managed to score 60 of 44 balls. Jonny Bairstow (25), Manish Pandey (30), Abhishek Sharma (10) and Abdul Samad (20) where the other batsman who saw double figures.
Trent Boult, James Pattinson, Kurnal Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah where the wicket takers for the men in blues.
Trent Boult was named as the Man of the Match for picking up two wickets with a handsome economy in his four overs.
After winning three out of five games, the Mumbai Indians had made themselves comfortable at the top of the points table.
“The wicket looked good but it was slightly on the slower side. Getting past 200 was a great effort. We didn’t have any sort of score in our mind on how much to get, like I said at the toss it is important to play good cricket and we back our bowlers to come and do the job.” said the MI captain Rohit Sharma in the post match presentation.