After his facet’s disappointing 18-run loss in opposition to Lucknow Tremendous Giants (LSG) within the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 on the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Indians (MI) skipper Hardik Pandya mentioned they didn’t play good high quality cricket on Friday. Hardik scored 16 runs from 13 balls at a strike charge of 123.08 whereas chasing the 215-run goal given by LSG. Talking after the match, Pandya mentioned his facet didn’t show a high quality efficiency within the IPL 2024 and it value them a season. He added it’s too early to level out what went flawed for MI.
“Fairly tough. Didn’t play good high quality cricket, ultimately costed us the entire season. It is a skilled world. Must all the time come out and put our greatest foot ahead. However sure, as a gaggle we couldn’t play high quality cricket or good cricket. Too early to level out what went flawed. The entire season form of went flawed. We will go this sport as one other one (that went flawed),” Pandya mentioned.
Recapping the match, after successful the toss MI despatched LSG to bat first however that didn’t go of their favour as KL Rahul (55 runs from 41 balls, 3 fours and three sixes) and Nicholas Pooran (75 runs from 29 balls, 5 fours and eight sixes) performed a fiery knock within the first inning. Marcus Stoinis (28 runs from 22 balls, 5 fours) and Ayush Badoni (22* runs from 10 balls, 1 4 and a couple of sixes) have been the opposite standout batters for LSG as they propelled the guests to 214/6.
Piyush Chawla led the MI bowling assault as he picked up three wickets in his four-over spell.
Within the run chase, the hosts had a stupendous begin whereas chasing a 215-run goal however after the tip of the fourth over, rain performed a spoilsport for which the sport was halted for a couple of minutes. Nevertheless, that didn’t break the MI openers’ momentum as Rohit Sharma (68 runs from 38 balls, 10 fours and three sixes) and Dewald Brevis (23 runs from 20 balls, 1 4 and a couple of sixes) performed a partnership of 88 runs.
Naman Dhir’s (62* runs from 28 balls, 4 fours and 5 sixes) beautiful knock within the later half of the run chase shed a ray of hope on the MI dugout as they thought the hosts might win the match however he didn’t clinch a win in the long run and conceded a 18-run loss on Friday.
Naveen-ul-Haq and Ravi Bishnoi led the LSG bowling as each of them picked up two wickets of their respective overs.
After the win, LSG ended their IPL 2024 marketing campaign in sixth place within the standings with 14 factors. Whereas MI had a season to neglect as they completed on the backside of the desk with 8 factors.
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