2024-05-01 02:41:12
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Mumbai Indians started this season with changes and continues to struggle. Mumbai Indians lost 3 wickets for 27 runs in the first 4 overs of the power play and 1 wicket for 1 run in the next 2 overs, losing 4 wickets for 28 runs.
Lucknow Supergiants defeated Mumbai Indians by 4 wickets in the 48th match of IPL T20 in Lucknow yesterday.
Batting first, Mumbai Indians added 144 runs for the loss of 7 wickets. Chasing 145 runs to win, Lucknow Supergiants won by 4 wickets with 4 balls to spare.
What does Lucknow need to do to make the playoffs?
With this win, Lucknow team advanced to 3rd place with 12 points from 10 matches with 6 wins and 4 losses. Due to this, the Chennai team has gone to the 4th place. Due to this, the upcoming matches have become important for the Chennai team.
At the same time, Lucknow’s net run-rate didn’t rise much as they dragged out an easily winnable match till the end. It is 0.094 less than the Chennai team.
Lucknow can only qualify for the playoffs if they play to increase their net run rate in the subsequent matches. With 4 matches remaining for Lucknow, a win of at least 3 matches will ensure a playoff spot without any problems.
Will Mumbai make it to the playoffs?
Mumbai team is near the last place with 6 points from 10 matches with 3 wins and 7 losses. The net run rate is also bad at minus 0.272. With only 4 matches in hand, even if we win all of them, it will be difficult to make the playoffs.
For Mumbai Indians, as for RCB, the play-off round is not just a mathematical feat, but an operational one. Because Mumbai Indians and RCB have only 4 games left. Even if both the teams win in these 4 games, they can get 8 points each, which is 14 points instead of the existing 6 points.
But in the play off round, it is expected that there will be a tough competition between the teams with up to 16 points for the 4th place. If that happens, RCB and Mumbai teams will automatically not qualify for the play-offs. Perhaps if the teams with 14 points compete for the 4th position, the net run rate of RCB and Mumbai should be much higher. Only if all these are possible, Mumbai and RCB can go to the playoffs.
Stoinis has had a slow start to this IPL season. But Merugeri has improved in every match and has been the main reason for Lucknow’s victory in both matches. With a batting average of 40 this season, Stoinis has a strike rate of more than 150, while bowling in just 12 overs in 10 matches so far, Stoinis has picked up 4 wickets. Stoinis, who has already scored a century this season, scored 62 runs off 45 balls (2 sixes, 7 fours) in this match and won the man of the match award.
Lucknow missed the opportunity
It can be said that captain Rahul and Stoinis started the game during the chase. Because the opener Kulkarni was caught in the first ball of Dushara’s bowling and was dismissed. After that, Stoinis, who came in as the 3rd player, had to play like an opener along with Rahul.
But Stoinis, who batted according to the situation, made good use of the powerplay overs and hit successive boundaries in the 3rd over bowled by Godsee. Lucknow team lost one wicket and added 52 runs in the powerplay over with Rahul also hitting boundaries from time to time.
A catch in which Rahul had added 5 runs was left on the line, but this time Nabi took a good catch of Rahul’s (28) hit shot off Pandya’s bowling. For the 2nd wicket, Stoinis and Rahul shared 58 runs.
After reaching the first 50 runs in 5.2 overs, Lucknow took 8 overs to reach the next 50 runs, i.e. 48 balls. The Lucknow team, which started at 10 run-rate, slowed down in the middle overs and fell to 6 run-rate.
In the middle overs, Mumbai team’s Piyush Chawla, Bumrah and Pandya bowled tightly, making it difficult for Stoinis and Deepak Hooda to get runs off the bat. However, Stoinis played calmly and scored a fifty off 39 balls.
While Deepak Hooda added 18 runs, Pandya lost his wicket. Stoinis-Pandya partnership added 40 runs for the 3rd wicket. Nicholas Pooran was next to join Stoinish
With the two big hitters expected to take the team to a quick victory, Stoinis was dismissed for 62 off the bowling of Mohammad Nabi. His account includes 2 sixes and 7 fours.
Turner (5) and Badoni (6) who came on the field were dismissed successively in runs. Lucknow lost 3 wickets for 115 runs and lost 3 wickets in the next 18 runs.
Nicholas Pooran, who usually hits sixes and fours, bowled calmly and added just one boundary. Puran with 14 runs and Kurnel Pandya with one run remained unbeaten till the end and made the team win.
Lucknow took the first 50 runs quickly and added the next 95 runs very sluggishly so they could not raise the net run rate. Lucknow took 14 overs to add 95 runs. This lackluster batting is the reason for Lucknow’s low net run rate. Lucknow could have moved up to the 2nd position if they had reached the target as quickly as they did in the first 50 and won in fewer overs.
Stoinis mixed in batting and bowling
Stoinis scored a century against CSK to give Lucknow a huge victory. In this case, Stoinis scored 62 runs in yesterday’s game and made an important contribution to Lucknow’s victory. In bowling, captain Rahul gave a chance right from the start by trusting Stoinis.
Making the most of the opportunity, Stoinis swung the new ball and took the wicket of dangerous batsman Suryakumar Yadav (10). Stoinis, who bowled 3 overs, gave 19 runs and took one wicket.
Decline of Mumbai
What saved Mumbai was the late cameo from lower order batsmen Negal Vadera (46) and Tim David (35). Mumbai team would have curled up within 120 runs if both of them had not batted to some extent at the last time.
The wicket batsmen used in yesterday’s match in Lucknow were difficult to bat. Mumbai could have won the game if they had scored 30 more runs.
Mumbai’s opening batsmen returned to the pavilion in the powerplay over. Mumbai lost more wickets than the fours scored in the Powerplay over. Mumbai team scored 3 boundaries and lost 4 wickets.
Rohit Sharma (4) was bowled by Mosincon in the 2nd over and Suryakumar (10) was bowled by Stoinis in the 3rd over. Similarly, both Tilak Verma (7) and captain Hardik (0) lost their wickets successively in the 6th over bowled by Naveen Ulhaq. Mumbai lost 4 wickets in the powerplay over.
Ishan Kishan along with Negal Vadera batted somewhat calmly and raised the score. Mumbai team reached 50 runs in 10 overs. In the 13th over bowled by Ravi Bisnoi, Ishan scored 32 runs and lost his wicket by giving a catch to Yadav. Nehal Vadera was the only one who played somewhat better and was dismissed for 46 runs. Tim David made a last over cameo and added 35 runs. Otherwise Mumbai batsmen did not score much.
Mayank Yadav injured again?
The young fast bowler discovered this season, Mayank Yadav, who can bowl at a speed of 156 kmph, played yesterday after recovering from injury. Mayank Yadav, who bowled well for 3 overs, clean bowled Nabi in the first ball of the 4th over. However, Mayank Yadav returned to the pavilion with stomach pain again and was bowled by Naveen Ulhaq to complete his over.
Regarding Mayank Yadav, coach Justin Langer said, “Mayank was brought back early as he was suffering from an injury he already had. We don’t want to play with Mayank’s condition. Mayank was brought in as a precaution and treated. “He is not seriously affected,” he said.
What does Pandya say?
Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya said, “After losing too many wickets in the powerplay at the start, we couldn’t recover. We didn’t perform well when we needed to. It cannot be said that the batsmen are under pressure because other teams are scoring big in every match. The wicket was good, he could see the ball and hit it. But we played the wrong shots. If you enter the field, you may lose sometimes, you may win, but you believe that you have to fight. This game is tough. We have learned a lot. Vadera batted well and Vadera played well last season too. Vadera might not have got the chance as the openers played well. I have seen him play for Mumbai over the years,” he said.
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