Recent Match Report - Mumbai vs Titans 57th Match 2023

Mumbai Indians 218 for five (Suryakumar 103*, Rashid 4-30) beat Gujarat Titans 191 for 8 (Rashid 79*, Madhwal 3-31) by 27 runs

For a short time, it regarded like Suryakumar Yadav would really end a T20 with out taking part in that one shot that made folks’s jaws drop. After which he hit probably the most unimaginable six. It propelled him to his first IPL century and Mumbai Indians to a snug victory over the defending champions Gujarat Titans.

You know the way Kane Williamson dabs to 3rd man to get singles? Properly, Suryakumar accessed the identical space, besides he cleared the boundary. He noticed a ball on off stump. He knew he might get underneath it. On the level the place he made contact, he opened the face, simply as Williamson does, after which the power in his forearms and his wrists did the remaining.

That is Suryakumar. He sees T20 cricket the way in which no one else sees it.

Rashid finally ends up a footnote

Titans got here into this sport figuring out a win wouldn’t solely safe a spot within the playoffs however give them two pictures at making the ultimate.

And so they turned to their fundamental man to make it occur. Rashid Khan produced 4 wickets for 30 runs in a format that continues to be hostile to his sort. Even as we speak, Suryakumar spent 49 balls proving that bowlers and their plans exist simply so batters might are available and rip all of them to shreds.

However Rashid would not purchase that. He had Rohit Sharma caught at slip with a stunning legbreak. He upended Ishan Kishan by a easy change in size, the premeditated sweep shot failing in opposition to a ball that was too full for it. Titans saved the final six balls they’d from Rashid for the match up in opposition to Tim David. These are excessive stakes. It was the seventeenth over. That is the time David involves life. Besides he could not as a result of Rashid took him out for five off 3.

Only a few are able to producing wickets on demand like this. Even fewer are ready to take action when the opposition comes exhausting at them.

Hardik Pandya gave Suryakumar Yadav a hug after he brought up his hundred off the final ball

Hardik Pandya gave Suryakumar Yadav a hug after he introduced up his hundred off the ultimate ball•AFP/Getty Photos

Suryakumar turns it on

When Mumbai misplaced their third wicket within the ninth over, they spent a short time scoring only a run a ball. 15 off 15. After which hastily, they crashed 32 in 10.

It was throughout this time that Vishnu Vinod, the Kerala wicketkeeper making his Mumbai debut, carved Mohammed Shami for a scarcely plausible six. A ball ending up on prime of off stump scythed over level because of his quick palms and depraved wrists.

That will have been shot of the sport if not for SKY doing SKY issues.

He wanted 32 balls to get to his fifty. That is gradual by his requirements, and he was constructing his innings with orthodox pictures. The one luxurious he afforded himself had been these straight sixes, the place his weight is often on the again foot, proper as much as the purpose the place he meets the ball, after which he hops, lifting each himself and the ball up off the bottom. That is how he creates leverage. It is his personal distinctive factor.

Then Rashid took David out and one thing snapped. Suryakumar was 53 off 34 in the beginning of the 18th over. He hit Mohit Sharma for 3 fours and a six to maneuver to 73 off 40. Then he met Shami within the nineteenth over and performed a front-foot drive for six over third man, simply by opening the face of the bat. Lastly, on 97, with just one ball left within the innings, he did what he has completed to quick bowlers everywhere in the world, sweeping Alzarri Joseph from method outdoors off into the gang previous the sq. leg boundary.

Rashid Khan smashed 10 sixes in his innings of 79 off 32 balls•BCCI

Rashid or bust for Titans

Pretty much as good as Titans are in a chase, they had been up in opposition to it in a short time when all of their prime three batters fell for single digits. Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya and Wriddhiman Saha totalled 12 runs between them.

Vijay Shankar stored hopes of the unbelievable alive with a candy little cameo. However he fell to Piyush Chawla’s first ball of the match, this IPL legend having one of the best season of his profession at 34 years of age.

Approach on the opposite finish of the spectrum is Akash Madhwal. He got here into the match as a result of Mumbai had been having a lot bother with their bowling assault. This was solely his fourth sport of the IPL and the twenty sixth of his T20 profession. And already he has proven an urge for food for the powerful job. Bowling on the demise, bowling to massive hitters, bowling with video games on the road.

Madhwal has a stunning yorker. And now, it seems his different balls are simply as lethal, as a result of when he hits a tough size, they preserve skidding by way of. He bowled Gill with one which stayed decrease than the batter anticipated. And he had David Miller lbw in simply the identical method.

Rashid carried the Titans with the bat as properly, making his highest rating in T20s, 79 off 32 with 10 sixes. A complete of 103 for 8 in 14 overs rose to 191 for 8 in 20. However it was not sufficient. Think about going three-fourth of the way in which to a century after choosing up one wanting 5 wickets and nonetheless shedding the sport.