Mumbai Indians Secure First Win in IPL 2024
Mumbai Indians achieved their first victory in IPL 2024 by defeating Delhi Capitals by 29 runs at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
Stubbs scores a scorching fifty, but Coetzee takes four wickets to send the Capitals to their fourth defeat in five games.
Delhi Capitals 205 for 8 (Stubbs 71*, Shaw 66, Coetzee 4-34) were defeated by Mumbai Indians 234 for 5 (Rohit 49, David 45*, Kishan 42, Axar 2-35) by a margin of 29 runs.
The Mumbai Indians beat the Delhi Capitals by 29 runs at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai to finally open their account in the IPL 2024 after losing the first three games.
Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan gave Mumbai an 80-run lead in seven overs after being sent in. The Mumbai team shot up to 234 for five as the Capitals mounted a rally in the middle overs. Tim David (45* off 21) and Romario Shepherd (39* off 10) struck 96 in the final five overs, with Shepherd hitting Anrich Nortje for 32 in the 20th over.
With 66 off 40 balls, Prithvi Shaw maintained the Capitals’ lead in the match. Tristan Stubbs took over after he was out, hammering off an undefeated 71 off 25 balls. However, the Capitals were defeated by 29 runs in the end because to that Nortje over.
Rohit and Kishan Gave MI A Blazing Start
Mumbai knew they needed to score big at the Wankhede because of the tiny boundaries and flat pitch, and Rohit and Kishan set the ideal stage for that.
In the seamer’s opening two overs, Kishan struck three fours against Khaleel Ahmed. Rohit blasted Ishant Sharma for two consecutive fours from the opposite end. Against Jhye Richardson, he elevated his game by hitting him for two consecutive sixes.
Rishabh Pant went to his spinners after noticing that the fast bowlers were giving up runs. But by now, Rohit had gone into overdrive. He struck four fours and a six against Axar Patel and Lalit Yadav in the following nine balls. After six overs, Mumbai was at 75 for no loss and he was at 49 off 23 balls.
Capitals’ Comeback
Axar’s dismissal of Rohit helped the Capitals mount a comeback after the field restrictions were loosened. Rohit came out of his crease for the final ball of the seventh over, but Axar bowled it quickly and short to beat the hitter and rattle his stumps.
Nortje thwarted Suryakumar Yadav’s comeback in the following over. After greeting him with a fiery yorker at the crease, Nortje had him caught at mid-on for a two-ball duck.
Mumbai got off to a fast start and reached 100 in the tenth over before Axar wounded them once more. Ishan Kishan, who had just hit a six off the previous delivery, hammered the next ball to the left of Axar, who reached out to make an incredible return catch.
With Hardik Pandya taking his time—at one stage, he was hitting 19 off 20 balls—Mumbai could only muster 63 runs in the nine overs that followed the powerplay.
Tim and Shepherd Show
After 15 overs, Mumbai were 138 for 4. The Capitals must have thought that they could limit them to around 200 at that point. But Shepherd and David had other ideas.
In the 16th over, David struck Richardson for a six. He struck two more sixes in the next two overs, and Hardik added one as well, but Shepherd was the one who caused more damage. He destroyed Nortje for 4, 6, 6, 6, 4, 6 in the 20th over, crushing the spirits of the Capitals.
Shaw and Stubbs Puts Valiant Efforts
Shepherd did not stop harming the Capitals. With a wide slower ball, he had David Warner holing out to mid-on in the fourth over.
Shaw started off slowly. In four overs, he was hitting 13 off 15, but he quickly discovered his range. He struck Piyush Chawla for 6, 4, 4 off back-to-back deliveries in the ninth over. He reached his half-century off of 31 balls with a four that he pulled off Gerald Coetzee.
Shaw and Abishek Porel helped the Capitals surpass 100 in the eleventh over, but Bumrah struck a blistering yorker to end his innings at 66.
Stubbs didn’t take long to get going. He hit Chawla for a six off the third ball he faced, and three balls later he replicated the feat over deep midwicket. Pant fell cheaply and Bumrah removed Porel for 41 off 31, but Stubbs persevered.
In the first three balls of the 17th over, he blasted two fours and a six off of Akash Madhwal, and he reached his second half-century in two games with just 19 balls remaining.
After 17 overs, thanks to his hitting, the Capitals reached 172 for 4, five runs clear of Mumbai at the same point. It took Bumrah just eight overs to give up the required fifty-five from the next two overs.
At the beginning of the 19th, Stubbs smacked two sixes off of Shepherd, and he finished with another six. However, the Capitals were left requiring 34 from six balls due to a lack of support from the opposing end. As Coetzee got stranded at the non-striker’s end, he only let up four wickets while also taking three.
