The clash of the two heavy weights, the Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians is always an interesting match, Kane Williamson and Rohit Sharma were out for the toss representing their and Kane Williamson won the toss and decided to field first as the pitch was good for bowling first at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.
As Bhuneshwar Kumar misses the crew as he had a sore back and he was replaced by Sandeep Sharma and Mumbai Indians missed Hardik Pandya due to a Injury and he was replaced by Pradeep Sangwan, and Mitch McCleneghan has been left back due to his poor performance in their last match and Ben Cutting was added in place of him.
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma(c), Evin Lewis, Ishan Kishan(w), Suryakumar Yadav, Krunal Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Ben Cutting, Mayank Markande, Pradeep Sangwan, Mustafizur Rahman, Jasprit Bumrah
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Wriddhiman Saha(w), Shikhar Dhawan, Kane Williamson(c), Manish Pandey, Deepak Hooda, Yusuf Pathan, Shakib Al Hasan, Rashid Khan, Billy Stanlake, Siddarth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma.
The batting department for the Mumbai Indians was opened by Evin Lewis and the hitman Rohit Sharma and the bowling department of Sunrises Hyderabad was opened by Sandeep Sharma.
Though Rohit Sharma was dropped for a duck, as he was looking for a pull, shot, but rather he gets a top edge and miscues and the ball went high, but hooda missed catching it and there by Sandeep just a gave single wrong on his first over.
And after get off to a good start and at end of first five overs of the power play managed to score 48/1 and later at then of 20 overs Mumbai Indians only managed add 99 more runs to their side, In between the innings of the Mumbai Indians batsman like Pollard, Shakib and Krunal tried to charge on the overs of Billy Stanlake but failed and returned to Pavilion on quick intervals, finally Mumbai Indians set a score of 147/8, Rashid Khan did a great job with the ball on his hands out of his spell of 4 overs, he delivered 3overs of dot balls, which was really a phenemenal performance.
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Later Shikhar Dawan and Saha open, as Dawan was in a good touch with the bad, gave a good start and on the other end Saha supported the Shikhar on the other end, and they manged to 62 runs open patnership at the end 7 overs, and later Hooda gave a quick 32 and Mayank markande yet again showed his glittery performance at the end of his spell he just gave 23 runs and managed to get 4 important wickets, and at last the Sunrisers required 15 runs of last, 18 balls, having 5 wickets in their end, there came Bumrah and he manged to pick two wickets of two balls and managed to send Rashid Khan and Yousuf and later the 19 over was driven by Mustafizur Rahaman, he managed to dismiss, Kaul and Sandeep Sharma for ducks as the match goes more interesting and all of a sudden Sunrises Hyderabad needed 11 runs off the last over, and Mumbai Indians just need 1 wicket to win, and Deepak Hooda strikes the ball and their drives a six off the first ball, which was delivered by Ben Cutting and there by SRH just required 4 off 5 balls and followe by Cutting delivers 1 dot balls and followed by he gave away .3 back to back singles and at the final ball SRH requires 1 of 1 and on the final ball Billy Stanlake, connects the ball and steals the match from the Mumbai Indians and with this SRH attained 2 back to to back wins and the Mumbai Indians had a bad start of the IPL this year as they encountered 2 consecutive failures, never the less as this just the start, so still plenty more games to go, so will wait and see how the Mumbai Indians perform in their forth coming matches.