IPL 2025: All-round excellence helps Mumbai Indians outclass lacklustre Sunrisers Hyderabad | Ipl News

Impressive bowling from all Mumbai Indians bowlers restricted Sunrisers Hyderabad to 162 despite a late flourish on a wicket where the ball stopped a touch in the first innings. The chase was completed in the 19th over without much fuss.Mumbai Indians showed admirable execution of plans to exploit a track where the ball stopped a touch in the first innings. Usually, it’s a bowler or two that stands up, but all the Mumbai bowlers combined to produce an intelligent cocktail. The break-free for Sunrisers came only at the end, with Heinrich Klaasen looting 21 runs of Deepak Chahar in the 18th over and Aniket Verma-Pat Cummins duo taking 22 of Hardik Pandya’s final over.
Deepak Chahar relied on his skills to swing the new ball and was only wicketless because three catches were grassed. Jasprit Bumrah bewildered the much-touted SRH attackers with his tw-of-wr slower balls, Hardik trusted his into-the-deck slower kickers, Will Jacks bravely looped his off-breaks, and Trent Boult mixed his lengths and pace to keep the lid on the visitors.

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Bumrah’s slower wrecker
There is something about Bumrah’s slower delivery that batsmen are mostly unable to hit. He doesn’t quite run his fingers across the seam or deliver it from the back of the hand – he doesn’t change his grip at all. Instead, he tws his wrs, flipping his fingers clockwise, and squeezes out the ball. That allows him the luxury to delay the revelation about the nature of the ball a bit later than usual. It still can be whacked talented big hitters, but his slower deliveries also grip and stop even off a length. With others, like Hardik, the shorter length where the ball is actively plunged into the deck helps in that stopping effect, but Bumrah’s wry-tw allows him to get that effect with a fuller length as well.
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He came on in the fourth over when Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head were looking to break the shackles but he just didn’t allow them, alternating his regular-pace deliveries with three slower ones. In the sixth, he went for three straight slower ones and both Head and Abhishek couldn’t get any timing. Suddenly the Powerplay was done, and SRH were only on 45 even when their imperious openers were still at crease.
He returned in the end overs, and maintained his stranglehold, this time with accurate yorkers, even as Chahar and Pandya bled some boundaries.
Hardik’s go-to ball on such tracks is the slower bouncer, and he doesn’t veer away from it, especially in his initial overs. It’s his bowling at the end when sometimes clarity of mind or the choice of deliveries still needs some work, as shown in the 22-run last over when his full deliveries were smashed for three sixes. But early on, he had Abhishek swatting a slower bouncer to sweeper cover, and would have had the wicket of Head, flicking a slower one to deep midwicket, had it not been a no-ball. In between, he kept things tight until Aniket smashed him for a couple of sixes and Cummins swatted the last ball over the long-leg boundary.
Fuss-free chase
There was a moment in the third over that flashed on the television screens. The super-sopper ran beyond the boundary, but its tyres were pretty wet. It suggested that there was some dew in the arena, not too much to affect the bowler’s grip over the ball, but enough to ensure that the ball wouldn’t stop as much as it did in drier conditions in the first innings. It was the same over that Rohit Sharma launched his first assault. He would go on to slam two delightful pulled sixes off Mohammed Shami and Cummins, but fell scooping a full delivery from the latter straight to cover.

Applying the finishing touches
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It was that kind of a chase. Nearly everyone got a start and slammed boundaries before they fell. Ryan Rickleton, who survived a caught dismissal as wicketkeeper Klassen had pushed his gloved hands ahead of the stumps before Rickleton had made contact with the ball. The resultant catch at cover Cummins was nullified as a result, and the ball was deemed a no-ball. But then, he had already smashed a few boundaries.
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The same pattern of hitting a few boundaries before getting out continued from Will Jacks and Suryakumar Yadav. Both smashed leg-spinner Zeeshan Ansari, who was unlucky earlier with that Rickleton ‘wicket’, for two sixes apiece to hasten the end. Hardik followed the same routine of boundaries-and-out but Tilak Verma stayed unbeaten to ensure Mumbai Indians got over the line in the 19h over without much fuss. And all the credit goes to their splendid bowling performance.
Brief scores: Sunrisers Hyderabad 162/5 in 20 overs (Abhishek Sharma 40, Klaasen 37; Will Jacks 2/14) lost to Mumbai Indians 166/6 (Jacks 36, Rickelton 31; Cummins 3/26) four wickets