Mumbai Indians: The five-time champion team of Mumbai Indians is having a great season even after losing two matches at the start. Now Pandya and his men are ranked third on the points table and they are also certain to qualify for the playoffs in this 18th edition.
Mumbai Indians have won four back-to-back matches this season after losing the opening encounters against Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans. Mumbai Indians also defeated the Delhi Capitals, ending their winning momentum of four back-to-back matches.
MI gave a clinical performance in yesterday’s game as well. The Blue army of the Mumbai Indians faced the Orange army of the Sunrisers Hyderabad. After Mumbai Indians won the toss and opted to bowl first, the SRH batters couldn’t cope with the MI pace bowlers.
Only Heinrich Klassen played a classy knock of 71 runs, and the South African wicketkeeper was supported by Abhinav Manohar, who scored 42 runs, the second-highest score from SRH in their innings. Klassen and Manohar also shared a partnership of 99 runs to bring the innings on track.
However, the SRH side could post just 143 runs on the board because the Mumbai Indians bowlers picked up wickets at regular intervals. The run chase of 144 wasn’t too difficult for the Blue Army. Mumbai Indians chased that score in just 16 overs and seven wickets in hand.
Rohit Sharma Is The Player With Most Sixes For Mumbai Indians In The History Of The Indian Premier League –
The former skipper of the Mumbai Indians, Rohit Sharma, is back in his usual form. He has scored two back-to-back half-centuries till now. He scored a match winning knock of 76 runs versus the Yellow Army, Chennai Super Kings on Sunday and Yesterday, HITMAN smashed 70 runs against the Orange Army of the Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Rohit Sharma is the player who now has scored the most sixes for the Mumbai Indians franchise. He smashed three maximums in yesterday’s game against SRH, which put him ahead of the former MI player and the current batting coach of the Mumbai Indians franchise, Kieron Pollard.
Now Rohit Sharma has 260 sixes to his name, which is the most by any batter of the Mumbai Indians team. Kieron Pollard had 258 maximums to his name. HITMAN will now look to break the record of Virat Kohli, who has scored the most sixes for a single IPL franchise in the matches to come.
Apart from Rohit Sharma, the captain of the Mumbai Indians team, Hardik Pandya, Tilak Varma and Suryakumar Yadav are the current MI players who are mentioned in the list of the batters with the most sixes for Mumbai Indians in the IPL. SKY has smashed 127 sixes, which is the third most, Hardik has 115 sixes, and Varma has scored 68 maximums in his short career till now.
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