MUMBAI Indians beat Delhi Daredevils yesterday by a huge margin of 80 runs to keep their hopes of a berth in the playoffs alive. After this victory, Mumbai Indians moved ahead of Daredevils on the table with 14 points and they’ll now face Gujarat Lions on May 21 in a do-or-die encounter.
Chasing a huge target of 207, Delhi Daredevils kept losing wickets at regular intervals throughout their innings.
(Scores: Mumbai Indians 206/4 (Krunal Pandya 86 and 2 for 15, Martin Guptill 48, Jasprit Bumrah 3 for 13) beat Delhi Daredevils 126 all out (de Kock 40, Morris 20 and 2 for 34) by 80 runs).
Youngsters Mayank Agarwal, Karun Nair and Sanju Samson failed to give any fight and were all dismissed in single digits. Quinton de Kock played an entertaining knock of 40 but even his stay at the crease came to an end due to a wrong decision.
Apart from de Kock, Rishabh Pant showed some promise but the young batsman couldn’t handle the and Jasprit Bumrah got the better of him.Put in to bat first by Zaheer Khan, Mumbai Indians openers had one of the best starts to their innings this season. Skipper Rohit Sharma looked positive as he hit a boundary and a six off Nadeem in the opening over of the match. Martin Guptill and Rohit Sharma played sensibly in the Power-play but the skipper was dismissed just after the Power-play got over.
It was Krunal Pandya who walked out to bat at number 3 and what followed was absolute carnage. Krunal Pandya hit almost everything out of the middle of the bat and a few of the shots he hit were really mind-blowing. The bowlers bowled in his areas and Krunal kept depositing thin the playoffs em over the mid-wicket fence.
The aggressive southpaw brought up his 50 in 22 deliveries and had a big 98-run stand for the second wicket along with Guptill. Krunal’s 37-ball 86 consisted of six maximums and seven boundaries. He had a chance to get his first century in the Indian Premier League but Chris Morris cleaned him up before he could do that.