IPL 2025, MI vs SRH: All-round Mumbai hammer Hyderabad as Wankhede springs surprise

New Delhi,UPDATED: Apr 17, 2025 23:28 IST

Mumbai Indians (MI) continued their winning run in the Indian Premier League 2025 (IPL 2025) with a four-wicket win against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Thursday, April 17, at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. The Hardik Pandya-led side put up a clinical show with both bat and ball as they rolled over SRH, comfortably chasing down 163 in 18.1 overs.

The victory helped Mumbai retain seventh spot on the points table, who now have three wins from seven matches. On the other hand, Sunrisers Hyderabad are now left tottering at the ninth spot, having just two wins from seven games. MI looked in complete control of the chase from the first ball itself as Rohit Sharma played some gorgeous shots in the powerplay.

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He raced to 26 off 15 balls but failed to convert his innings into a big score due to a soft dismissal against Pat Cummins. His opening partner, Ryan Rickelton also looked in good touch as he took on Eshan Malinga to hit him for three consecutive fours. Rickelton even got a reprieve on 21 as he was caught at cover but since wicketkeeper Heinrich Klaasen’s gloves were ahead of the stumps while Rickelton hit the ball, it was deemed a no ball.

The southpaw was dismissed in the very next over on 31 (23), looking for a hat-trick of boundaries against Harshal Patel, but ended up skying the ball towards Travis Head at point. Following his wicket, Will Jacks (36 off 26), Suryakumar Yadav (26 off 15), Tilak Varma (21* off 17) and Hardik Pandya (21 off 9) made valuable contributions, which eventually took MI over the line.

Mumbai were up against the most formidable opening pair in the tournament, who were fresh from chasing down a humongous 246 against Punjab Kings. However, the MI bowlers had done their homework against the deadly duo of Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma as they didn’t give them any full length deliveries to hit.

The new-ball opening pair of Deepak Chahar and Trent Boult bowled good lengths and varied their pace nicely to leave the SRH openers befuddled. The ball seemed to be holding in the pitch as stroke making didn’t come easy for both fierce strikers. While Abhishek managed to release the pressure through some lucky boundaries as his edges flew towards the fence behind the stumps, Head looked completed out of sorts.

The openers stuttered their way to a 50-run stand off 39 balls as they uncharacteristically failed to hit a single six during their innings. After a few catches fell short of fielders, captain Hardik Pandya quickly recovered from an injury scare to get rid of Abhishek (40 off 28), who holed out to deep point, where Raj Bawa took an exceptional diving catch.

In walked Ishan Kishan at number three, playing his first game against MI after representing them for seven seasons. His stay at the crease, lasted only three deliveries as Will Jacks managed to get him stumped for 2 (3) to leave SRH on 68/2 in 8.4 overs. Following his dismissal, Head’s struggle in the middle continued as he even failed to make the most of the reprieve given by Hardik Pandya, who got him out on a no-ball.

His innings finally ended on 28 (29) by Will Jacks as he hit him straight to Mitchell Santner at long-off. As a result, Head returned to the pavilion playing his slowest ever innings of a 20-plus score in T20 cricket but paradoxically became second fastest to complete 1000 runs in IPL (in terms of balls faced) during the same knock.

The SRH batting continued to falter against MI bowlers, who mixed their pace remarkably and used the slowness of the surface to their advantage. Mumbai completely choked the SRH batting line up full of big stroke makers as they conceded first six in the 17^th over. Some late flourish from Heinrich Klaasen (37 off 28), Aniket Verma (18* off 8) and Pat Cummins (8* off 4) propelled Hyderabad to 162/5 in their 20 overs.