Indian Premier League 2015 - 23rd Match
(Mumbai Indians vs Sunrisers Hyderabad at Mumbai)
Sunrisers support cast fails in small chase
| MI | vs | SRH |
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| 157/8 (20) | 137/8 (20) | |
| MI won by 20 runs | ||
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Two teams with ordinary investments in Indian domestic batsmen came up against each other in Mumbai, and it all came down to which team's weaker batsmen would do worse. Mumbai Indians' Parthiv Patel, Unmukt Chand and Ambati Rayudu scored 29 off 28, which was more or less evened out by the collective 50 off 46 scored Sunrisers Hyderabad's KL Rahul, Naman Ojha and Hanuma Vihari. In a small chase, though, with the youngsters struggling, the experienced but one of the least evolved international cricketers over the last eight years, Ravi Bopara made the telling contribution, scoring 23 off 27 on a flat pitch as Sunrisers saw all the good work with ball undone.
With Mumbai refusing to put their best batsmen in the first half of the top six, Rohit Sharma and Kieron Pollard again had to bat under immense pressure. On a pitch that 180 was chased easily, Mumbai managed just 157 against the four-pronged swing attack of Dale Steyn, Trent Boult, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Praveen Kumar. Sunrisers, though, rely heavily on their openers - Shikhar Dhawan and David Warner - but despite a start of 45 for 1 in five overs, the rest contrived to lose by 20 runs.
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