Mumbai Indians vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, 33rd Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Have they woken up the sleeping beast? 2024 wasn't their year. 2025 seemed to be a replica. But is the campaign back on track? May be one or two more wins will make it look more convincing. MI unit seems to be a team which has most bases covered. Their batting fire power is envious. They have Pandya, Jacks and Santner as all-rounders. They have Rickelton getting better. Rohit is yet to fire. Bumrah is slowly getting into his elements and MI are ready to roar more. SRH on the other hand have blown more cold than hot. They were finalists last season but have been poor this season after starting off the season with a bang. Cummins and Co. will be under massive pressure to turn it around. They also have the artillery needed to be a strong unit. But will they be able to bounce back quickly as time is running out for them. CSK who have had a similar fate face these two teams next. The eternal heavyweights are trying to come up. Which one will find its buoyancy quicker? We will have the answers soon. This is our team of Sagar Chawla, Akshay Maanay, Vinod Kumar, Praveen and KAD signing off. Bye bye...

Stats by Shashikant Singh

SRH is the only team that has yet to win an away game this season
Lost vs DC, Vizag
Lost vs KKR, Kolkata
Lost vs MI, Wankhede

Slower ones today:
MI quicks: 1/36 off 30 balls
SRH quicks: 3/60 off 33 balls

Most wins while chasing at a venue in IPL
29 - MI at Wankhede (47 mats)*
28 - KKR at Kolkata (40)
24 - RR at Jaipur (31)
21 - RCB at Bengaluru (41)
21 - SRH at Hyderabad (32)
20 - CSK at Chennai (31)

Will Jacks | Player of the Match: The tournament, we had a little bit of a slow start as a team and myself personally. As everyone knows it was incredibly frustrating. But I just want to contribute to wins. Tough start, dropping a catch off the first ball. It dipped and I was late on it. I should have caught it. Just taken me little bit of time to settle into the new franchise. Kind of adjustment period for everyone. Now we are gelling as a team. We are confident and comfortable to put performances out there. We have a great set up. Loads of star players. I am taking advantage of everyone around me and hopefully it can continue. I would want to do whatever the team requires of me. Be it number 7 Or the number 3 it wad today. It is about communication and good reasoning and I will do as the team requires. As long as the team is winning, I don't care. If you are bowling slower balls, it was tricky to play. Have been working on being attacking against spin. Coming from England, coming to India, will keep working on it.

Hardik Pandya | MI captain: I think specially the way we bowled today was very smart and spot on. We stuck to simple basic plans. And figured out Certain deliveries were not easy to hit. Credit to the bowlers to sticking to that and making them play some good shots. We were kind of squeezing them. If u see from the look of it, it looked like a good wicket. There was greenness to the grass as well. The first couple of overs that Deepak bowled, couple of balls got stuck there we realized that may be change of pace will be useful on this wicket. I think as soon as we figured that out, we were backing that with the same intent. We trying to mixing it up. Slower balls even if it is gripping, you try that again and again, batter can line you up. We executed the yorkers very smartly in those middle overs when they couldn't get any rhythm. That is the beauty of Jacks. He has three facets. He can be a gun fielder. Can bowl those crucial overs and in batting he has so much explosiveness. That is the reason he is part of the team. We back him. Am excited and today it came off for him. When we needed 42 off 42, we felt it was the tricky part. Rather take your time. Not to get too excited and lose wickets and all of a sudden you are in shambles. That point of time we realized lets take a couple of overs time. The boundaries will come and as soon as the boundaries come, the pressure will be off. At the end, we kind of pushed the pedal. It is going to be a great game. It is going to be a packed house. We are sure. Just making sure we rest well.

Rickelton: Wouldn't say 30 is too many runs, but nice to contribute. Still itching for a big score. Wasn't the easiest wicket tonight, but we adjusted well with the ball and obviously happy to get over the line. It's extremely difficult (coming from SA and adapting to these pitch conditions). I have the foundations and bit of knowledge being around such a great group of guys. It's just about trying to work those little things in my game. There's some things tonight that I discovered which I need to try and chat to the necessary players. Still a work in progress. If I can keep growing my game, it's only going to bode well in the future. Definitely helped we were batting second. That's the nature of T20 cricket. It's difficult to judge and assess what is a good score and commit to it. We have the experience of Booms and Hardik and Sky, and Boulty as well. The smarts were there today with the ball in hand, even though I reckon we could've kept them to a lower score. It's a bit loud. Always a bit of a cacophony for me with the noise but I'm finding my feet. Really enjoying it. What a great team to play for, what a great place.

Pat Cummins | SRH captain: It wasn't the easiest wicket. Few runs short, we would have liked a couple more with the bat. Tricky wicket, when you come here you expect it to be really fluent and fast, just wasn't that. They bowled really well, shut down a lot of our hitting areas. I thought we had all our bases covered, with 160 you feel like you are a little bit short. We gave it a good crack with the ball. We thought we needed wickets, we had plenty of death bowling, we knew the impact player would bowl 1-2 overs that's why we went with Rahul. You have got to play well away from home to make the final, unfortunately it hasn't clicked so far this season, we have a short break and we go again. Every game we talk about assessing, the boys did well to get through the powerplay and there wasn't reckless hitting, next game is at home and we know that venue pretty well.

23:21 Local Time, 17:51 GMT, 23:21 IST: MI win this by 4 wickets. They stay on 7th. SRH are 9th on the table and have same points as CSK from 7 games. MI were the more clinical and polished side. MI won the toss, elected to bowl on a slightly damp deck. Chahar set the tone in his first two overs but the openers of SRH had close escapes. Abhishek again started off on a quick note but fell for 40. Head scratched around in his stay and Kishan fell for a single digit score, yet again. In the end, Klaasen and Verma added a few quick runs. They tallied 162 which was well below par. Rohit started off on an attacking note and departed after a cameo. Rickleton kept playing his shots till he got out and so did SKY. Jacks played a mature knock and Hardik played a cameo to tie the scores. MI lost a couple of wickets and a couple of reviews but got home in the 19th over. These two points will add to the confidence of the MI unit. SRH will have to go back to the drawing board. They have played three on the road and lost all of them. They have a 2 out of 4 record at home.

Zeeshan Ansari to Tilak Varma, FOUR, and a reverse sweep ends the game. Puts an end to the delay for MI. Malinga delayed the inevitable. But Tilak Varma decided to preempt the reverse paddle and got it between short third and point. Well placed and MI have two wins on the bounce now. They go to three wins from 7 games

Zeeshan Ansari [3.0-0-31-0] is back into the attack

Eshan Malinga to Santner, no run, stabs it down to point, Tilak Varma was on his heels and Santner was sent back. The wait continues. The last few minutes have been tough for the MI fans

Mitchell Santner, left handed bat, comes to the crease

Eshan Malinga to Naman Dhir, out Lbw!! The batter was given out, he reviewed it but went out beyond the ropes even before he was given out. That was a fuller ball, tailed in, Naman Dhir missed the line of the delivery and was hit on the boot. The third umpire just didn't get the ball-tracker in time and the crowd started booing even when the actual call was made. Three Reds it was. MI have lost two wickets and two reviews in this over. Some drama at the end of this game ensuring the end has been delayed. Dhir was seen chatting with his skipper near the dug out even before the third umpire had given him out. Santner walked in and asked for the guard only for the umpire to deny him and ask him to wait. Bizzare is the only word that comes to my mind. Naman Dhir lbw b Eshan Malinga 0(3)

Eshan Malinga to Naman Dhir, THATS OUT!! Lbw!!

Dhir has reviewed it. Was a fuller ball, slower, angled in, Naman Dhir looked to walk across and nudge it but failed to wood it. The ball slammed into hit boot and seemed to be an easy call for the umpire. No bat. Should be plumb. Dhir has walked off. He reviewed it but didn't wait for the umpire's decision. Santner ha walked in already. The MI fans have been waiting patiently.

Eshan Malinga to Naman Dhir, no run, low full toss, tails in, clipped down to mid-wicket. Two dot balls might hurt them later if it comes down to NRR

Eshan Malinga to Naman Dhir, no run, low full toss, nudged down to mid-wicket. Jacks was seen already shaking hands. MI and their fans will have to wait

Naman Dhir, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Eshan Malinga to Hardik Pandya, out Caught by Ishan Kishan!! Not the end that MI wanted. Hardik Pandya heaved it away but found the man at deep mid. Was a fuller ball, angled in, Hardik Pandya whipped it down to the deep mid fielder. He hit that hard by getting under it. But the ball never had the distqnce on it. Hardik Pandya c Ishan Kishan b Eshan Malinga 21(9) [4s-3 6s-1]

Eshan Malinga to Hardik Pandya, THATS OUT!! Caught!!