Mumbai: The Sunrisers Hyderabad suffered their first defeat of the Indian Premier League season as the Mumbai Indians defeated them by four wickets at the Wankhede Stadium last night.
The Mumbai Indians put in their best performance of the season so far as they defeated the champions to claim their second victory in three matches in front of the partisan crowd.
It kept up their unbeaten record at home to the Sunrisers, and they went up 5-4 in their head-to-head record overall.
It was always going to be a tough task for the visitors, who could only muster 158 for eight from their allotted overs.
The Sunrisers were looking good after the first 10 overs as the explosive David Warner, and to a lesser extent Shikhar Dhawan, put on 75 runs in this period.
Warner hit an excellent reverse slog sweep for six off the first ball of the 11th over, but it all fell apart from there.
Harbhajan Singh (2-23) took the wicket of Warner for 49 the very next ball as he attempted the same shot. Deepak Hooda could only add a run-a-ball nine, as the Sunrisers’ top-order started to collapse.
Dhawan fell two runs short of his half-century and Yuvraj Singh was then bowled by Hardik Pandya for five.
Ben Cutting struck four fours from his 10 deliveries to score a brisk 20, but Jasprit Bumrah (3-24) stifled the tail to restrict the Sunrisers to 158 for eight.
The hosts got off to a flier thanks to Jos Buttler and Parthiv Patel as they struck 28 off the first three overs, but Buttler attempted to charge down to experienced paceman Ashish Nehra and was clean bowled for 14.
Sharma was then trapped lbw by Rashid Khan for four. An impressive stand then followed between Patel and Nitish Rana, as they hit a quick 38 off the next five overs to keep the Mumbai Indians afloat.
BRIEF SCORES: Mumbai Indians 159 for 6 (Rana 45, Patel 39, Bhuvneshwar 3-21) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 158 for 8 (Warner 49, Dhawan 48, Bumrah 3-24, Harbhajan 2-23) by four wickets.
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