Santner, Bumrah, Surya star as MI storm into playoffs with a 59-run win over DC

Mumbai Indians stormed into the Playoffs arsenic Mitchell Santner and Jasprit Bumrah claimed 3 wickets apiece aft a superb unbeaten 73 by Suryakumar to usher their squad to a commanding 59-run triumph implicit Delhi Capitals successful Match 63 of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 astatine the Wankhede Stadium connected Wednesday. 

Mumbai Indians were successful occupation successful the 18th implicit arsenic Delhi Capitals had kept them nether a choky leash, and it was looking similar they whitethorn not scope 150 arsenic they were struggling astatine 132/5 with 2 overs to go. But Suryakumar Yadav, who hammered a 43-ball 73, and Naman Dhir (24* disconnected 8) blasted 48 runs successful the past 2 overs to assistance Mumbai scope 180/5 successful 20 overs.

That proved a turning constituent successful the lucifer due to the fact that it gave the five-time champions a large boost. Mumbai Indians came backmost powerfully with the ball, utilized the conditions superbly, and with Santner picking 3-11 and Bumrah bagging 3-12, bundled retired Delhi Capitals for 121 successful 18.2 overs to triumph by 59 runs arsenic rain, which had threatened each done the evening, came down successful a drizzle.

Mumbai Indians, who had a forgettable run successful 2024 and had started with 1 triumph successful 5 matches this season, scripted a tremendous turn-around with a six lucifer unbeaten tally arsenic they clinched a well-deserved spot successful the playoffs.

Delhi Capitals missed their captain, Axar Patel a batch arsenic helium would person loved bowling connected this wicket and could person helped them restrict Mumbai Indians to a smaller total. But that was not to beryllium again arsenic Delhi mislaid their mode aft making a beardown start, which has been the communicative of their IPL 2025 campaign.

The dew was expected to easiness up things for the chase, but with the skies inactive overcast, it did not person immoderate interaction arsenic Mumbai Indians bowled superbly to registry a memorable victory.

Delhi got disconnected to a mediocre commencement and were 49/3 astatine the extremity of the Power-play. Deepak Chahar struck successful the 2nd implicit arsenic stand-in skipper Faf du Plessis departed, trying to blast a slower 1 connected the magnitude but ended up offering a tame drawback to Mitchell Santner.

K L Rahul, Delhi Capitals’ champion batter this season, amazingly came successful arsenic an Impact Substitute, struck 2 boundaries successful his six-ball 11 earlier Boult did him in, extracting an borderline down with a scrambled seam transportation arsenic the batter skips down the transportation but could negociate lone an cultivation swipe.

From 20/2, Delhi Capitals continued to stumble, arsenic Will Jacks struck successful the 5th over, getting Abhishek Porel for six with a neat stumping, ruled by DRS connected review, arsenic the Englishman drew the batter with a looped-up delivery.

Santner, who varied his formation and controlled gait well, and Bumrah, businesslike arsenic usual, were astatine their inspired champion connected Wednesday and took implicit aft that. They struck astatine regular intervals and had DC nether unit always.

Vipraj Nigam, who struck an 11-ball 20 to adhd to his superb bowling, and Sameer Rizvi played tiny cameos, but successful the extremity it was not enough. Rizvi deed six boundaries and 1 six for 39 disconnected 35 balls was the top-scorer for Delhi Capitals but his effort was excessively small and excessively late.

Earlier, Rohit Sharma lasted conscionable 5 deliveries successful his archetypal lucifer astatine the venue aft the MCA unveiled a basal successful his name. He tried to tally down a magnitude transportation angled crossed extracurricular off-stump, edging down an casual accidental to Abhishek Porel to springiness Bangladesh pacer Mustafizur Rahman his archetypal wicket of IPL 2025.

Will Jacks (21 disconnected 13), who struck Vipraj Nigam for a mates of uppish fours and besides dumped 1 implicit the enactment astatine heavy square-leg, lobbed a wide and dilatory 1 to Nigam astatine mid-off to springiness Mukesh Kumar his archetypal wicket of the match.

Rickelton, looking composed astatine the different end, carted Dushmantha Chameera for 2 large sixes -- archetypal implicit the bowler’s caput and the adjacent implicit long-off -- departed soon aft the Power-play, falling to the guile of Kuldeep Yadav for 25 disconnected 18, and MI were down to 58/3.

Suryakumar Yadav, who played immoderate bully shots and survived a DRS review, and Tilak Varma, who struggled to get into a rhythm, took MI past the 100-run mark, hitting a 4 present and a six there. Delhi Capitals kept a choky leash connected the proceedings with Kuldeep Yadav (1-22 disconnected 4) and Vipraj Nigam (0-25 disconnected 4) bowling tidy spells.

SKY and Varma shared a 55-run concern for the 4th wicket earlier Varma (21 disconnected 13) fell successful the 15th over, trying to people a bound disconnected Mukesh Kumar. Mumbai could negociate lone 64/2 successful the mediate overs arsenic the going was painstakingly slow.

Skipper Hardik Pandya lasted six deliveries for 3 runs earlier falling to Chameera to marque it 123/5 successful the 17th over.

Suryakumar Yadav broke the shackles with a large six implicit other screen disconnected Mukesh Kumar to scope a well-deserved half-century disconnected 36 balls, and Naman Dhir blasted 2 fours and 2 sixes disconnected a struggling Mukesh Kumar, who sought the physio's help, to blast 27 runs for the implicit and instrumentality MI past the 150-run mark. They shared a fifty-run concern successful 19 balls arsenic Mumbai Indians reached a warring total.

Brief scores:

Mumbai Indians 180/5 successful 20 overs (Suryakumar Yadav 73 not out, Tilak Varma 27, Naman Dhir 24 not out; Mukesh Kumar 2-48, Kuldeep Yadav 1-22) bushed Delhi Capitals 121 each retired successful 18.2 overs (Sameer Rizvi 39; Mitchell Santner 3-11, Jasprit Bumrah 3-12) by 59 runs.

(This communicative was taken from a syndicated provender and was lone edited for benignant by Gujarat Samachar Digital team)