Tags: Indian T20 League 2023,
Mumbai Indians vs Gujarat Titans, 57th Match at Mumbai, May 12, 2023,
Mumbai XI,
Gujarat XI
Revealed on: Could 13, 2023
Scorecard
| Commentary
| Graphs
Mumbai Indians (MI) batter Suryakumar Yadav scored a splendid 103 not out off 49 balls, his maiden Indian Premier League (IPL) ton, as his staff defeated Gujarat Titans (GT) by 27 runs in match quantity 57 at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Friday, Could 12. The margin of defeat might have been a lot worse for GT however for a superb all-round present from Rashid Khan. After claiming 4/30, he smashed an unbeaten 79 off 32 balls as Gujarat recovered from 103/8 to complete on 191/8.
Batting first, Mumbai bought off to a brisk begin as Ishan Kishan (31 off 20) and Rohit Sharma (29 off 18) added 61 within the powerplay. Rashid dismissed each within the seventh over of the innings. Rohit was caught at slip and Kishan trapped leg earlier than. The GT leggie additionally knocked over Nehal Wadhera for 15.
Suryakumar was then joined by Vishnu Vinod (30 off 20) and the duo added 65 runs for the fourth wicket. Vinod struck two fours and two sixes earlier than miscuing a full toss from Mohit Sharma. Suryakumar was in his zone by then and performed some audacious strokes even by his requirements to notch up his maiden IPL ton. The precise-handed batter’s knock featured 11 fours and 6 sixes. He even introduced up his hundred with a most, sweeping the final ball of Mumbai’s innings from Alzarri Joseph over the ropes.
Chasing 219, Gujarat misplaced half their facet for 55 as Affect Participant Akash Madhwal picked up 3/31. The pacer trapped Wriddhiman Saha (2) and David Miller (41) lbw. In between, he cleaned up Shubman Gill for six. On the different finish, Jason Behrendorff had Hardik Pandya (4) caught behind, whereas Vijay Shankar (29) and Abhinav Manohar (2) have been cleaned up by Piyush Chawla and Kumar Kartikeya respectively.
Gujarat had slumped to 103/8. Nonetheless, Rashid clobbered 10 sixes and three fours to carry down the margin of defeat relatively considerably.
Talking after being named Participant of the Match, Suryakumar mentioned, “Every time I get runs I feel the staff ought to win, most significantly we batted first at present and mentioned that we might maintain the identical tempo if you end up chasing 200-220. There was quite a lot of dew on the bottom, it was there from the 7-Eighth over and I knew what photographs to play.
He continued, “I used to be not excited about hitting straight, I had two photographs within the thoughts – one over fantastic leg and one over third man. There may be heaps and many follow earlier than the sport, so once I come into the sport I’m very clear and simply go categorical myself.”
–By A Cricket Correspondent
