Lucknow Super Giants have defeated Mumbai Indians by 18 runs. Rohit Sharma played an inning of 68 runs, but could not take MI closer to victory. LSG had scored a huge score of 214 runs while playing first. For Lucknow, Nicholas Puran played a stormy inning of 75 runs in 29 balls, while KL Rahul also scored 55 runs. When Mumbai came out to chase the target, the team had an excellent start as there was an opening partnership of 88 runs between Rohit Sharma and Dewald Brevis. Rohit Sharma scored 68 runs in a 38-ball innings studded with 10 fours and 3 sixes. But in the middle overs, Lucknow’s bowlers established such dominance that MI’s batsmen could not escape that pressure and lost the match by 18 runs.
Chasing the target of 215 runs, Mumbai had a great start as the team had scored 53 runs in the powerplay overs without losing any wicket. Especially Devald Brewis could not convert the good start into a big innings, who was out after scoring 23 runs in the ninth over. MI had not yet recovered from the first shock, then Suryakumar Yadav was out after scoring zero runs. In the 11th over, Rohit Sharma was also caught by Mohsin Khan at the score of 68 runs. Hardik Pandya and Nihal Vadhera also could not stay at the crease for long. In this way, Mumbai had lost 5 wickets in just 32 runs. While the team had scored 88 runs without losing wickets, MI’s score was 125 runs for 5 wickets by 15 overs. The team needed 90 runs to win in the last 5 overs. The situation was that the team had to score 52 runs in the last 2 overs. Ishan Kishan and Naman Dheer were standing at the crease. 18 runs came in the 19th over, due to which the team had to score 34 runs on the last 6 balls. Naman Dhir played an inning of 62 runs in 28 balls, but could not save Mumbai from an 18-run defeat.
Arjun Tendulkar got a chance
Mumbai Indians did not give Arjun Tendulkar a chance to play in the entire season. But he got an opportunity to leave his mark in the last match of the league stage. He had Marcus Stoinis out LBW on the very second ball of his spell, but the review revealed that the ball was going over the stump. Still, the first 2 overs were excellent for Arjun, in which he gave only 10 runs. But when he bowled the third over of his spell, Nicholas Pooran hit him for 2 sixes in the first 2 balls. Unfortunately he could not complete his 4 overs. Due to injury he had to return to the dressing room.
