Mumbai: Mumbai Indians (MI) registered their second consecutive victory in Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022, defeating Gujarat Titans (GT) by 5 runs. Mumbai Indians their total of 177-6 with a magnificent 3 runs in the final overby Daniel Sams.
Mumbai Indians replaced Hrithik Shokeen with Murugan Ashwin. Rohit Sharma started with some drives to kick off the innings. The skipper crunched three fours and 2 sixes. Ishan Kishan hit three fours to bring up the fifty partnership of the opening wicket. Mumbai Indians were 63-0 after 6 overs.
Rashid Khan broke the partnership. Rohit was trapped LBW. Coming next, Suryakumar Yadav struck a maximum. Later he was mistimed against Pradeep Sangwan and was caught by Rashid Khan. Alzarri Joseph tricked Ishan Kishan with a slower delivery to get caugh in the 12th over.
Rashid Khan cleande Kieron Pollar. Mumbai Indians were 142/4 after Tim David creamed consecutive fours. Tim smashed a six straight down the ground but Tilak Varma was run-out at the other end. David clubbed two sixes in the final over to post a competitive total of 177-6.
Gujarat Openers Shubman Gill and Wriddhiman Saha started well as the fifty partnership was up inside the powerplay. Saha did the majority of the hitting with five fours and two sixes. Gill joined added a four and six to put Gujarat Titans at 54/0 at the end of the powerplay.
Gill whacked three consecutive fours in a row off Daniel Sams’ bowling . Gujarat Titans were 95/0 at the halfway stage. Saha crossed his half-century and the hundred-partnership was up for the opening wicket.
Murugan Ashwin provided the much awaited breakthrough. Shubman Gill got caught to his bowling. Ashwin claimed his second wicket to depart Wriddhiamn Saha. Sai Sudharsan, crunched a maximum straight down the ground but was out hit-wicket against Kieron Pollard’s bowling.
Hardik Pandya was run-out by Ishan Kishan’s direct hit. Gujarat Titans needed 20 off the final two overs. Miller hit a maximum in the penultimate bringing the equation down to 9 off 6 balls. Daniel Sams only conceded 3 runs in the final over as Mumbai Indians register a 5-run victory.
Brief Scores: Mumbai Indians 177/6 (Ishan Kishan 45, Tim David 44*; Rashid Khan 2-24) beat Gujarat Titans 172/5 (Wriddhiman Saha 55, Shubman Gill 52; Murugan Ashwin 2-29) by 5 runs.
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