They could not take the team to the IPL playoffs. The Mumbai Indians are positioned last in the standings. Even in the last match, they had to lose; But coming to the last match of IPL, India captain Rohit Sharma got a good confidence capital to play well in the World Cup.
While chasing down Lucknow Super Giants’ 214 runs, others showed failure, but Rohit was in control with the bat. He scored 68 runs from 38 balls at a strike rate of 178.94.
However, two other Mumbai cricketers in India’s World Cup squad, Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya, failed. Suryakumar could not score any runs. Pandya scored 16 runs off 13 balls. Unfamous cricketer Naman Dhir batted well. He scored 62 runs.
Despite Rohit-Dhir’s extraordinary batting, Mumbai Indians lost by 18 runs to Lucknow Super Giants in their last match in this year’s IPL. Lucknow managed to end the IPL with a win despite failing to make it to the playoffs.
In response to their huge target, Mumbai Indians stopped at 196 after losing 6 wickets. They could not win the game despite Rohit’s 68 off 38 balls innings and Naman Dhir’s unbeaten 62 off 28 balls. He hit 5 sixes and 4 boundaries.
Before that, Nicholas Pooran went on a rampage with the bat at number five. Lucknow Super Giants made a huge collection of 214 runs for 6 wickets based on his devastating innings of 8 sixes. In other words, to win, Mumbai Indians had to make 215.
Losing the toss, Lucknow lost the toss and went into bat in the first over. Devdutt Padikkal returns with a golden duck after being lbw by Nuwan Thushara. Marcus Stoinis was batting well. However, he had to stop for 28 runs off 22 balls after getting lbw off Piyush Chawla.
Chawla’s second victim was Deepak Hooda, 11 off 9 balls. However, Lucknow lost 3 wickets within 69 runs. Then the tenth over was going on.
From there, Nicholas Pooran ran rampantly. He added 109 runs off 44 balls with Lokesh Rahul for the fourth wicket.
After playing an innings of 75 runs off 29 balls, Pooran was finally dismissed by Nuwan Thushara. In this devastating inning, he took more sixes than fours (5 fours and 8 sixes).
Mainly, Lucknow got the way to build a challenging score in this brutal batting of Pooran. Lokesh Rahul made 55 off 41 balls. In the end, Ayush Badani scored 22 off 10 balls and Krunal Pandya came off the bat with an unbeaten 12 off 7 balls.
Piyush Chawla gave 29 runs while taking 3 wickets and Nuwan Thushara took 3 wickets at the cost of 28 runs.
Lucknow Super Giants – 214/6 (20.0)
Mumbai Indians – 196/6 (20.0)
Result – Lucknow Super Giants won by 18 runs.
Player of the match – Nicholas Pooran
Nicholas Pooran
Mumbai Indians | Hardik Pandya (c), Ishan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Nehal Wadhera, Anshul Kamboj, Romario Shepherd, Piyush Chawla, Dewald Brevis, Arjun Tendulkar, Naman Dhir, Nuwan Thushara |
Lucknow Super Giants | KL Rahul (c & wk), Devdutt Padikkal, Deepak Hooda, Ayush Badoni, Arshad Khan, Krunal Pandya, Matt Henry, Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Marcus Stoinis, Mohsin Khan |
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