A clinical SunRisers Hyderabad edged defending champions Mumbai Indians by 10 wickets in the 2020 IPL final league game to reserve a knockout stage spot. With this victory, David Warner’s team eliminated Eoin Morgan’s Kolkata Knight Riders based on their Net Run-Rate (NRR) after finishing with the same number of 14 points. They will now face Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the Eliminator. After Warner chose to bowl, the SRH players once again produced their A game, restricting the Mumbai Indians to a level below par 149/8. Warner and Wriddhiman Saha continued their electric form at the top of the order and poked fun at the Mumbai Indians bowling alley, which seemed quite normal in the absence of their rhythm spearhead Jasprit Bumrah and Trent Boult, who were given a much needed rest before a crucial knockout. game. Warner finished with 85 and not just 58 balls, while Saha scored an undefeated 45-ball 58 while the duo chased the total with 17 balls remaining.
Previously, Mumbai Indians were all smiles as they saw their regular patron, Rohit Sharma, walking into the draw. However, he was unable to create any magic and went to four runs after delivering a single catch to the middle outfielder.
After Rohit’s departure, Quinton de Kock took over and hit some good limits, but couldn’t go on for long and Sandeep Sharma cleaned him up in the fifth over.
After dominating the Powerplay, the SRH spinners came to the party in the middle phase and made scoring runs difficult for the Mumbai Indian hitters.
Batting according to the team’s needs, Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan focused on forging a solid partnership rather than hitting big shots, allowing SRH bowlers to take control of the game. To their credit, they managed to get their team out of trouble by adding 42 runs.
However, in what was their worst hitting performance of the season, the record IPL champions fell from 81/2 to 116/7. Despite that, Kieron Pollard’s late flourish (41 of 25 balls) in death brought them to a respectable 149/8 total, giving his bowlers something to fight with.
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Sandeep Sharma continued his good form and collected three wickets for 34, while Jason Holder and Shahbaz Nadeem cast cheap spells and returned with two wickets apiece.
This was Hyderabad’s third win in a row and they are the fittest team for the knockout stage. Their superior NRR also meant that they surpassed RCB to finish third in the 2020 IPL Points Table.
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