Mitchell Santner Cheers Jasprit Bumrah’s Brilliance After MI Clinch Crucial Win

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Last Updated:May 22, 2025, 15:27 IST

Jasprit Bumrah's fiery spell of 3/12 helped the Mumbai Indians unafraid a apical 4 berth with a 59-run triumph implicit the Delhi Capitals.

Bumrah bagged figures of 3 for 12 successful MI's comfy triumph (Picture credit: AP)

Ace India pacer Jasprit Bumrah received effusive praise from teammate Mitchell Santner aft yet different magnificent showing successful the Indian Premier League. The Mumbai Indians’ spearhead helped his squad predominate the Delhi Capitals successful a important brushwood played astatine the Wankhede Stadium successful Mumbai connected Wednesday, May 21.

Bumrah’s fiery spell of 3/12 successful his 3.2 overs pushed MI to a commanding triumph that sealed their apical 4 berth.

Bumrah snapped the important wicket of Tristan Stubbs earlier coming backmost to marque an casual feast of the opposition’s lower-order men, Madhav Tiwari and Mustafizur Rahman, to manus MI a monolithic 59-run victory.

Bumrah’s spell was lone bettered by Santner, who enjoyed bowling connected a dry, two-paced aboveground and ended with figures of 3 for 11. The 2 prima performers destroyed the Capitals’ batting line-up, skittling them retired for 121 successful 18.2 overs aft MI posted 180/5 successful the archetypal half.

“We person shown that successful the past fewer games, the guys up apical trying to plaything the shot and it’s ever bully to person idiosyncratic similar Bumrah to vessel astatine the backmost extremity of the powerplay and evidently astatine the end," Santner said astatine the post-match presumption connected Bumrah’s telling publication and enactment to him astatine the different end.

Bumrah has been successful spectacular signifier for the Mumbai Indians since making a instrumentality from wounded aft the archetypal 4 games. The large pacer has shed doubts raised implicit his fittingness and mentation heading into the tourney and emerged arsenic an influential fig successful MI’s palmy resurgence.

Mumbai missed Bumrah dearly, losing 3 of their archetypal 4 games. Hardik Pandya’s men person since won 7 of their past 9 matches, with Bumrah taking 16 wickets astatine an system complaint of conscionable 6.39 successful a high-scoring tournament.

Bumrah’s unparalleled interaction came to the fore adjacent against the Capitals arsenic helium gave them nary respite and joined hands with Santner to bring astir the opposition’s downfall successful a must-win game, ensuring MI a definite spot successful the playoffs.

A nonaccomplishment could’ve enactment MI astatine risk, but the triumph consolidated their 4th spot connected the array with a crippled remaining. On 17 points, MI basal a accidental to unafraid a apical 2 berth with different triumph successful the past league crippled versus Punjab Kings connected Monday, May 26 successful Jaipur.

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