Mumbai Indians jumped to third spot from sixth in the points table after defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) on Wednesday. It was also their fourth win in the trot in IPL 2025. On the other hand, Sunrisers Hyderabad’s misery continued as the Men in Orange remained at ninth spot. Let’s revisit the night at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.
A powerplay to forget for SRH
Teams losing four or more wickets in powerplay while batting first rarely end up on the winning side with six of the previous eight instances in IPL ended in defeats. SRH had two of those eight entries and they duly lost on both occasions. The same thing happened last night in Hyderabad.
The home side couldn’t recover from 13/4. Heinrich klaasen’s first fifty of the season, an attractive 71 off 44 and impact substitute Abhinav Manohar’s 43 off 37 just delayed the inevitable. Travis Head (0), Abhishek Sharma (8) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (2) endured yet another failure with Ishan Kishan’s dismissal becoming the most bizarre moment of the season.
Ishan Kishan’s brain-fade moment
The drama unfolded in the third over when Ishan Kishan attempted to play Deepak Chahar’s delivery down the leg side. The on-field umpire Vinod Seshan was initially ready to declare the ball wide but upon seeing Kishan walking off, changed his mind and raised his finger. It took everyone by surprise and even the Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya appreciated Kishan’s honesty. However, replays showed Kishan bat didn’t even make contact with the ball.
Kishan was panned by users on social media.
Trent Boult & Jasprit Bumrah’s memorable night
Trent Boult took the wickets of openers and later returned to take two more wickets in the 20th over. It was Boult’s second best figures (4/26) in IPL. Bumrah on the other hand was expensive in his four overs, conceding 39 runs. However, he took the wicket of SRH’s top-scorer Heinrich Klaasen, which was also Bumrah’s 300th T20 wicket. Bumrah is just the second Indian pacer after Bhuvneshwar Kumar to reach the coveted landmark.
Rohit Sharma enters history books
The night just got better for Mumbai Indians as Rohit Sharma carried his form from the unbeaten half century against Chennai Super Kings on Sunday (April 20). Rohit, who remained not out at 70 off 46 balls, reached 12000 runs in T20s – the second Indian after Virat Kohli to the historic landmark. It was second consecutive fifty in IPL and for the first time he achieved the same since 2016. Suryakumar Yadav’s (40 off 19) rapid knock gave one more net run rate boost for MI.
What’s next?
Sunrisers Hyderabad play Chennai Super Kings at home on April 25 (Friday). It has to be noted that SRH never managed to beat CSK in Chennai in five attempts. Mumbai Indians host the Lucknow Super Giants in a day game on Sunday (April 27).
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