Star all-rounder Hardik Pandya featured with both bat and ball to control Mumbai Indians to a 37-run win for their second triumph of the period. The thrashing likewise finished Chennai Super Kings’ three-coordinate unbeaten streak this season.
In the wake of being approached to bat first, Mumbai lost Quinton de Kock (4 off 7) and captain Rohit Sharma (13 off 18) and Yuvraj Singh (4 off 6) economically before a 62-run remain between Suryakumar Yadav (59 off 43) and Krunal Pandya (42 off 32) restored their innings. After the team left, Hardik (25 off 8) and Kieron Pollard (17 off 7) crushed 45 of every two overs to control Mumbai to an impressive 170-5 of every 20 overs, including 29 off the last over of Dwayne Bravo.
Bravo completed with the figures of 1-49 after the pounding in the last finished while Deepak Chahar, Mohit Sharma, Imran Tahir and Ravindra Jadeja shared a wicket each.
In answer, Chennai lost their route directly from the begin after they lost both Ambati Rayudu (0) and Shane Watson (5 off 6) in the initial eight conveyances of their innings with only six keeps running on the board. Kedar Jadhav (58 off 54) included 27 and 54 runs association with Suresh Raina (16 off 15) and MS Dhoni (12 off 21) for the third and fourth wickets however nobody stood ground to supplement Jadhav. After Dhoni left on the primary wad of the 15 over with 87 on the board for Chennai, they could just include 46 keeps running in the rest of the 35 conveyances, losing four additional wickets all the while.
While Rayudu and Raina were evacuated by Jason Behrendorff (2-22), Lasith Malinga (3-34 took the vital wickets) of Watson, Jadhav and Bravo. Hardik Pandya (3-20) bowled splendidly in the center overs, evacuating Dhoni and Jadeja in the fifteenth over to peg Chennai back before asserting the wicket of Chahar in the last over to round off a splendid trip and gaining the player of the match grant.