Hardik Pandya affected the second run-out of the night in match 9 against Sunrisers Hyderabad. He had earlier ran out SRH skipper David Warner to tourn the game in Mumbai’s favour. Sunrisers have yet again choked in the chase from being in an advantageous position. Chasing 150 to win, the side has choked in the final overs with Jasprit Bumrah and Trent Boult in action.
Coming into bowl in the 18th over, Samad faced the fourth delivery from the Kiwi pacer. Hitting the ball straight to Hardik, Samad went for the run and was found short. He squeezed out this yorker to extra cover and took on Hardik with the throw. Was always going to be curtains with the direct hit and that’s exactly what’s happened.
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Rashid Khan then walked out to bat and was out of the first ball he faced. Vijay Shankar then lost his wicket in the 19th over of the chase to put the curtains on the chase.
With 16 needed from the final over, Boult dismissed Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the very first ball of his over. SRH were bowled out finally for 137 losing the match by 13 runs. Yet again chasing became tougher at Chennai wicket. Bumrah and Boult took four wickets amongst themselves to cap off another win for Mumbai in IPL 2021.
This loss takes Sunrisers to the bottom of the points table while Mumbai Indians registered their second win of the campaign. Yet again SRH spoofed a chase from a position of strength. Meanwhile, Mumbai have brought about the habit of making a comeback in the game.
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“I just make sure that the ball is in my hand and then target the stumps. To be honest, the run-out of Warner, I wasn’t expecting him to be that far, I just wanted to take aim and hit, and only then I realized that he was well short. We have a lot of character as a team, they got to a great start, but our bowlers pulled them back nicely, bowled good line and lengths, made sure that the pressure was built” said Hardik after affecting those two run outs.
