Surya Kumar Yadav and Quentin de Kock scored half-centuries as the Mumbai Indians beat the Delhi capitals by five wickets to advance to the top of the Indian Premier League.
Shikhar Dhawan increased his batting to
69, but he missed the strike as the defending champions' disciplined bowling
limited the capitals to 162-4 in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
Krunal Pandya 2-26, while Jaspreet Bumrah
and Rahul Chahar also kept it tight in a disappointing innings for Delhi at the
Sheikh Zayed Stadium.
At 10 points in the summit, Suryakumar and
De Kok scored their goals on two balls to include their opponents, setting them
well on their way to overcoming the capitals' second defeat.
Surya Kumar (53 off 32 balls) scored his
second consecutive half-century and De Cock (53 off 36) won his second
tournament before Ishan Kishan won by 28 runs.
Kagiso Rabada, who took a prominent wicket
in the 2020 edition of the IPL, claimed 2-28 but Rohit Sharma's team should not
be denied a fourth consecutive victory.
Mumbai had to pay the price for lack of
runs after which Shreyas Iyer scored 42 runs. Deciding to bat after winning the
toss, capping put up two fours in the final over against Marcus Stevens and
displayed a superb all-round display.
Anrich Nortje leaned on him with just
three runs, but the Stones were unable to follow him.
Dhawan in Landmark van
Batting in the innings, Indian opener
Dhawan rescued Krunal from Midwicket on his sixth score of his 100th IPL.
The dangerous left-hander also reached the
1,000-run mark for the Delhi franchise, but faced only 52 balls as the
Daredevils failed to fire.
Delhi were remembering the injured Rishabh
Pant and leaving Shimron Hetmyer, Alex Carey picked up the gloves and scored 14
not out after coming in sixth.
Krunal and Bumrah bowled eight and seven
dot balls respectively, scoring just one boundary in a fine field performance
for Mumbai.
De Kok and Suryakumar Sports Capitals
Axel Patel gave a big lift to Delhi by
removing Rohit on the last ball of the fifth over with 31 runs on the board.
De Kok hit three sixes and found the rope
four times before Ravichandran Ashwin sent it on his way; Prithvi Shaw took a
deep square leg catch to leave India 77-2 at half-time.
Suryakumar played another key innings in
the 79-run chase in the victory over Rajasthan Royals, though Caron Pollard and
Cornell hit six fours and a lone six before ending it.
In the battle of the purple hat, Amda
Rabada took his wicket from Bamrah and Trent Bolt to six, 36 more, but he
doubts that he converted these out runs to win.
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