MI vs DC: Mumbai Clinical Indians beat Delhi Capitals to claim 5th IPL title extending record Cricket news

DUBAI: An incomparable Rohit sharma led defending champions Mumbai Indians to an unrivaled fifth IPL title on Tuesday, dismantling Capitals of Delhi at the peak clash with his famous graceful hitting and tactical cunning.
If last year’s one-race win over Chennai Super Kings was an absolute failure, Rohit’s aristocratic 68 on 51 balls made it an anticlimax with the Mumbai Indians chasing the 157 goal in 18.4 overs.
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“We know this is a difficult time, everyone is stuck at home. We are lucky to be able to come to work and entertain people watching at home,” said Jasprit Bumrah, MI’s star pacemaker, who was left without a window on Tuesday but got 27 this season.
Five IPL titles will surely make Rohit the undisputed ‘Number One’ player-leader in the IPL Universe. This edition was made more challenging by the COVID-19 pandemic and the bio-bubbles that gamers had to endure.
He has played much better shots than this in the past and will play some more special shots in the future.

But he may never play a more meaningful one considering the little whirlwind of controversy his “once damaged and now recovering” created.
The ‘Hit-Man’ has given a whole new meaning to what one has known so far about breaking down the barriers of pain.
A hamstring injury can be very painful, but the way India’s regular white ball pattern exploded inside the ‘Ring of Fire’ at Dubai International Stadium was fighting a battle of its own.
The cover campaign was about his class, the lash behind the square was his arrogance, and the all too familiar “Rohit Sharma shooting shot” was an assurance to BCCI President Sourav Ganguly that “Everything is fine.”

And to prove a point, he looked for those doubles, tap and run singles, including a miscalculated one that saw Suryakumar Yadav (19) sacrifice his wicket for his patron and rightly so.
The carrom ball thrown by Ashwin was deposited on the tip fence with a crisp square cut and the Praveen Dubey six-legged roulette wheel was written with “Boss Man” all over it.
There has never been an edition in which a team has looked different in a league than seven others.

As Rohit had previously said, it is not rocket science but investing in pure match winners that has given the Mumbai Indians such a menacing appearance.
Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither was a champion team that has now won five titles out of the six finals it has played.
If Jasprit Bumrah wreaked havoc on Qualifier, Trent boult (3/30) decided that final was his turn to inflict the damage and did so with a first-ball beauty that Marcus Stoinis will remember for years to come.
Nathan Coulter-Nile seemed like a weak link, but got the dangerous Rishabh pants (56 of 38 balls) at the last moment to stop.

Rohit’s hitting only ended what seemed inevitable, but it was his captaincy that set him up.
Only 45 runs conceded in the last five overs during DC innings was a game changer as Shreyas Iyer (65 without 50 balls) literally struggled through the finals.
That was the moment when except for Bumrah (0/28 in 4 overs), Boult and Coulter-Nile took the rhythm of the deliveries with slow rebounds and cutters that made the shot difficult.
And the decision to have Jayant Yadav replace Rahul Chahar also turned out to be a success.
Jayant, a former player from India, did as he was asked. He threw an off counter inducing a Shikhar Dhawan (15) fit to hoick off the turn and get thrown.
At 22-for-3, Delhi was looking for another capitulation before Iyer and Pant stabilized the boat with a 96-run position that had some great shots.
But in the end, it will be a mere footnote on a day that belonged to the one and only ‘Captain Marvel’ Rohit Sharma.