MI vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: Green’s ton and Rohit’s fifty helped MI chase the 200+ target against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
MI vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: Match number 69 of the IPL 2023 was a high-scoring one, and five-time champions Mumbai Indians won the match to seal their spot for the playoffs matches as Royal Challengers Bangalore lost the match. In the evening, Mumbai Indians played their do-or-die match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, who were already out of the playoffs race. The match happened at Mumbai Indians home ground, Wankhede Stadium, and MI didn’t disappoint their fans as they came out victorious as they beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets.
MI vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: Playing XI of both teams during match
Sunrisers Hyderabad: SRH made some changes to the playing XI. Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, and Abdul Samad were out of the playing XI. Umran Malik was added after a long time.
Sunrisers Hyderabad playing XI: Mayank Agarwal, Vivrant Sharma, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Harry Brook, Nitish Reddy, Glenn Phillips, Sanvir Singh, Mayank Dagar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik
Mumbai Indians: The players were almost unchanged; only Hrithik Shokeen was out of the team.
Mumbai Indians playing XI: Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan(w), Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Chris Jordan, Piyush Chawla, Jason Behrendorff, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal
MI vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: Opening batters did well for SRH this time.
MI vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: After being invited to bat first, the batsmen of Sunrisers Hyderabad came to the crease. This time, the opening duo of Mayank Agarwal and Vivrant Sharma opened the innings for Sunrisers Hyderabad, and both players looked in good touch. Vivrant on one end was scoring runs, and the same was done by Mayank Agarwal on the other end. They took on every bowler and scored their half-centuries. Vivrant scored his maiden IPL fifty in 35 balls, while Mayank Agarwal completed his fifty in 32 balls.
The duo were playing fearless and made a partnership of 140 runs in 82 balls, but in the over of Akash Madhwal, Vivrant Sharma got dismissed after hitting 69 runs in just 46 balls. After the first breakthrough, the in-form batter of Sunrisers Hyderabad, Heinrich Klaasen, came to the crease and opened his account with a boundary. SRH was targeting a 200+ score on the ground, but wickets started falling as Mayank Agarwal got out after making 83 runs. Heinrich Klaasen was the hope of SRH to put a high total on the board, but his wicket was also taken by Akash Madhwal in the 19th over.
SRH’s captain hit a last ball six to put a total of 200 runs on the scoreboard, which was a huge target for the Mumbai Indians, but they have achieved the 200+ target before as well.
MI vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: Cameron Green and Rohit Sharma’s innings helped MI qualify for the playoffs.
MI vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: Mumbai Indians opening batters entered the crease, captain Rohit Sharma and the left-handed batter Ishan Kishan started chasing the target set. In the 3rd over of the powerplay, Ishan Kishan, while trying to hit the ball out of the park, was trapped by Bhuvneshwar Kumar in his knuckle ball, and he got caught at midfield by Harry Brook. Now Cameron Green came to bat and went straight to his business; he scored a boundary on the first ball he faced. The duo looked good as the runs were coming from both ends.
Fortune favored Rohit Sharma when he was batting at 12, as in the 5th over, while trying to hit the ball out of the boundary line, he lofted it to the midwicket region, and Umran Malik dropped the catch, and the time came for the duo to put on a show. Cameron Green started hitting bowlers like there was no stopping him, and during the powerplay, they managed to put 60 runs on the board.
Cameron Green kept going and hit his fifty in just 20 balls; later, Rohit Sharma completed his fifty, and the way they were playing made the 200+ target look easy, plus the poor fielding of Sunrisers Hyderabad eased Mumbai Indians way to the playoffs. Though after a splendid catch by Nitish Reddy Rohit Sharma got dismissed, Green continued, now joined by Surya Kumar Yadav, and they took their team to a massive 8 wicket victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Cameron Green hit his maiden IPL century in some fashion when only 1 run was required to win the match. He hit the ball towards mid wicket and took a single to score his century. Green scored 100 runs in just 47 balls.
MI vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: Post-Match
MI vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: Mumbai Indians have qualified for the playoffs, and they are going to fight with Lucknow Super Giants in the eliminator. Lucknow Super Giants are in the 3rd spot of the points table, and the one who wins the match will play against the loser of qualifier 1, which would happen between Gujarat Titans and Chennai Super Kings.
MI vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: Post-Match statements
Aiden Markram (losing captain):
It was a decent effort with the bat today. You need a lot more than 200 against MI. Boys played well, unfortunately ended up on the wrong side. It’s been a great challenge this year (leading the team), great group of guys, we are on the younger side, great bunch to be around. We have learnt a lot as a team.
It was an opportunity for the guys and they grabbed it with both hands. Someone like Klassy (Klaasen) and Bhuvi (Bhuvneshwar), did consistently well throughout the season.
Rohit Sharma (Winning captain):
We came with that mindset, we wanted to win and not worry about what happens elsewhere. What you can control, you can control and then hope for the best. I haven’t spoken to anyone. If we don’t go through, we’ve got ourselves to blame for it. If we go through, I’ll give all the credit to the boys. That’s how it works. Last year, we did a big favour to RCB. I hope we get the result what we are looking for. We did a lot of things right as we went along. We didn’t start well and then won three on the trot.