Captain Hardik Pandya’s pace and veteran leggie Piyush Chawla’s craft put brakes on a sensational Sunrisers Hyderabad batting line-up. Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Varma’s scintillating display with the willow then gave Mumbai Indians a rare win in the Indian Premier League 2024.

Riding on Suryakumar’s 51-ball hundred and his unbroken third-wicket association of 143 off just 79 balls with Tilak – the third highest partnership of the season, Mumbai Indians overhauled the target of 174 with 16 balls to spare.

When Tilak took guard in the fifth over, however, Mumbai Indians was in a spot of bother. With the Sunrisers pace battery having reduced the home team to 31 for three, Mumbai Indians was in danger of letting the bowlers’ good work down the drain yet again with another poor show by the top-order.

Ishan Kishan (straightened up by Marco Jansen to be caught in slips), Rohit Sharma (miscued a pull off Cummins) and Naman Dhir (slashed Bhuvneshwar to point) could not withstand the wrath. Even Suryakumar struggled against Cummins, failing to put a bat to any of his first three deliveries that swung away from his blade.