MI vs LSG | Lucknow no match for Rickelton-SKY power as Bumrah helps Mumbai muscle fifth straight win

‌Brief score: MI 216/7 (20) [Rickelton 58(32), SKY 54(28); Mayank 2/40(4)] defeat LSG 161 (20) [Badoni 35(22), Marsh 34(24); Bumrah 4/22(4)] by 55 runs

Asked to bat first, Mumbai Indians were immediately subjected to trial by fire as Lucknow Super Giants handed express quick Mayank Yadav the new ball for his season debut. The youngster seemed to find his rhythm straightaway but Ryan Rickelton was upto the task as the Proteas fetched 20 runs across the first two overs before Rohit Sharma dispatched Mayank for two sixes in their first ever encounter. However, it was the pacer who had the last laugh by sending the former skipper packing the very same over, ebven though Rickelton chugged on to bring up a 25-ball half-century and leave the powerplay score reading a pretty 66/1. Rishabh Pant turned to legspin duo of Ravi Bishnoi and Digvesh Rathi to help seize back momentum, and the latter delivered by scalping Rickelton in the ninth over to bring Suryakumar Yadav to be crease. Meanwhile, Will Jacks who had been content playing second fiddle, recognized the opportunity to take over and alongwith Surya took 16 off the 10th over to have the halfway score say 105/2. Even when Jacks and Tilak Varma fell in successive overs, the India captain remained unfettered, as he surpassed 4,000 IPL runs and took charge of the Orange Cap enroute to his 27-ball fifty. The stage for the finish had been set, one Naman Dhir and Corbin Bosch used to score a combined 45 runs off just 21 balls and help set a daunting target of 216 for the visitors.

In response, Aiden Markram declared his intentions early with two boundaries in the first over but failed to follow through on it as he became Jasprit Bumrah's sixth victim of the season. With the shiny new Kookaburra hooping around, Mitch Marsh and Nicholas Pooran chose to excercise caution early on before the latter compensated with three sixes on the trot off Deepak Chahar in the final over of the powerplay to make the score read a competitive 60/1. However, things quickly unraveled thereafter as Jacks scalped the Caribbean big-hitter with his very first ball, conceded a four off the next, and then had Rishabh walking to flip the game on its head. Marsh and Ayush Badoni tried to keep the game alive with a quick 46-run stand but by the time the former fell victim to a Trent Boult slower one in the 12th over, the required run rate had already crossed 12. The departure of Ayush Badoni (35 off 22) in the 15th over brought Mumbai on the brink of victory, one Bumrah practically sealed immediately after by getting rid of David Miller (24 off 16), Abdul Samad, and Avesh Khan in the same over. LSG tried to play out their remaining balls in hopes of adding to their NRR, and only just managed to do so before Boult's wicket on the final delivery of the match saw the visitors bowled out for 161.

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