What pitch was that?
Travis Head, Ishan Kishan and Nitish Reddy scoring under a run-a-ball at Wankhede? Ripley's! An unusually sticky pitch threw SRH off their game and handed MI a @L1$. Dale Steyn's "300-run" prediction did come true though... if you added both teams' totals. Ha. Ha. Ha.
Slow pitch for SRH: a tactic?
After pulling off the second highest run-chase in IPL, all SRH wanted was a good deck to bat. And what they got from MI was pitch #6 at Wankhede, where MI bowled KKR for 116 earlier in the season. It was the same pitch were KKR successfully defended 169 against the home team last season - the only sub-200 target that was defended at Wankhede since 2023. Make of that what you will *cough, cough*.
So what did MI do well (besides picking that pitch)?
First, they grabbed the better bowling conditions like pros. SRH quicks actually bowled more slower balls, but MI's bowlers got way more out of the tacky surface. And more importantly, they didn't turn into a one-trick pony like poor Sandeep Sharma the night before. Boult, Bumrah and Hardik kept mixing it up, keeping batters as confused as Google Maps in Bangalore traffic.
Yes, it was an anti-climax
After all that buildup, what we got were four hours of laborious run-making. That the pitch was sticky and that MI won a good toss has been established; but so thrown off were SRH batters by what was on offer that they scored just 20 runs off the first 15 full tosses they faced! It was that sort of a night.
Will Jacks goes from oops to wow
Figures of 2-14 and then 36 off 26 balls: an all-round performance for which he won Player of the Match too. And his wickets included Head and Ishan. Not a bad day out there, especially after you have dropped Abhishek Sharma first ball of the match.
Did you know?
SRH remain winless on the road this season, while MI notched up their 29th win while chasing at Wankhede - the most by any team at a single venue in the IPL.
What's on today?
"Aar Cee Bee" chants along with some unending jam on the Cubbon Park road. But that aside, there's also RCB vs PBKS at the Chinnaswamy. There's some rain around, which means captains will want to bowl first, which they prefer doing anyway at this venue. Things to watch out for: how PBKS bunce back from the famous run-chase by SRH, and how @L4$.
Travis Head, Ishan Kishan and Nitish Reddy scoring under a run-a-ball at Wankhede? Ripley's! An unusually sticky pitch threw SRH off their game and handed MI a @L1$. Dale Steyn's "300-run" prediction did come true though... if you added both teams' totals. Ha. Ha. Ha.
Slow pitch for SRH: a tactic?
After pulling off the second highest run-chase in IPL, all SRH wanted was a good deck to bat. And what they got from MI was pitch #6 at Wankhede, where MI bowled KKR for 116 earlier in the season. It was the same pitch were KKR successfully defended 169 against the home team last season - the only sub-200 target that was defended at Wankhede since 2023. Make of that what you will *cough, cough*.
So what did MI do well (besides picking that pitch)?
First, they grabbed the better bowling conditions like pros. SRH quicks actually bowled more slower balls, but MI's bowlers got way more out of the tacky surface. And more importantly, they didn't turn into a one-trick pony like poor Sandeep Sharma the night before. Boult, Bumrah and Hardik kept mixing it up, keeping batters as confused as Google Maps in Bangalore traffic.
Yes, it was an anti-climax
After all that buildup, what we got were four hours of laborious run-making. That the pitch was sticky and that MI won a good toss has been established; but so thrown off were SRH batters by what was on offer that they scored just 20 runs off the first 15 full tosses they faced! It was that sort of a night.
Will Jacks goes from oops to wow
Figures of 2-14 and then 36 off 26 balls: an all-round performance for which he won Player of the Match too. And his wickets included Head and Ishan. Not a bad day out there, especially after you have dropped Abhishek Sharma first ball of the match.
Did you know?
SRH remain winless on the road this season, while MI notched up their 29th win while chasing at Wankhede - the most by any team at a single venue in the IPL.
What's on today?
"Aar Cee Bee" chants along with some unending jam on the Cubbon Park road. But that aside, there's also RCB vs PBKS at the Chinnaswamy. There's some rain around, which means captains will want to bowl first, which they prefer doing anyway at this venue. Things to watch out for: how PBKS bunce back from the famous run-chase by SRH, and how @L4$.
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