57th Match, IPL: Mumbai Indians 218 for 5 (Suryakumar 103*, Rashid 4-30) beat Gujarat Titans 191 for 8 (Rashid 79*, Madhwal 3-31) by 27 runs

For a brief period, it seemed as though Suryakumar Yadav would really complete a T20 without playing a single shot that made individuals’ jaws drop. After that, he made an incredible six. It moved him to his first IPL century and Mumbai Indians to an agreeable triumph over the reigning champs Gujarat Titans.

Do you know how Kane Williamson gets singles by dabs to third man? Suryakumar entered the same area, with the exception of crossing the boundary. On the off stump, he just saw a ball. He was aware he could penetrate it. He opened his face when he made contact, just like Williamson does, and then used his strength in his forearms and wrists to do the rest.

This is Suryakumar. He sees T20 cricket differently than anyone else.

Rashid ends up a footnote

The Titans knew that winning this game would not only guarantee them a spot in the playoffs but also give them two chances to reach the championship game.

And to make it happen, they turned to their main man. In a format that remains hostile to his kind, Rashid Khan took four wickets for 30 runs. Suryakumar spent 49 balls proving that bowlers and their plans exist in order for batters to come in and rip them all to shreds. This continues to this day.

Yet, Rashid wouldn’t buy that. He had Rohit Sharma get slip with a stunning legbreak. He upset Ishan Kishan with a simple length change, and his planned sweep shot fell short against a ball that was too full for it. The Titans saved Rashid’s final six balls for their matchup with Tim David. The stakes are very high. It was the seventeenth over. David comes to life at this point. However, Rashid eliminated him for five out of three, so he could not.

This kind of instantaneous production of wickets is rare. When the opposition comes at them hard, even fewer are able to do so.

Suryakumar Yadav turns it on

At the point when Mumbai lost their third wicket in the 10th over, they spent a short time scoring simply a run a ball. 15 off 15. Then they crashed 32 times in 10 seconds.

Vishnu Vinod, a Kerala wicketkeeper making his Mumbai debut, carved Mohammed Shami for a six that was hard to believe. Because of his quick hands and wicket wrists, a ball that ended up on top of the off stump was scythed over point.

If SKY hadn’t done SKY things, that would have ended the game.

To reach his fifty, he had to hit 32 balls. That was slow for him, and he was using conventional pitches to start his innings. The main extravagance he managed at the cost of himself were those straight sixes, where his weight is generally on the back foot, straight up to the place where he meets the ball, and afterward he bounces, lifting both himself and the ball up off the ground. He does this to gain leverage. It’s his very own thing.

Rashid then removed David, and something snapped. At the beginning of the 18th over, Suryakumar was 53 off 34. He hit Mohit Sharma for three fours and a six, bringing his total from 40 to 73. Then, at that point, he met Mohammed Shami in the nineteenth over and played a front-foot drive for six over third man, by simply opening the essence of the bat. On 97, with only one ball remaining in the innings, he finally did what he has done to fast bowlers all over the world: he swept Alzarri Joseph past the square leg boundary from the outside off stump into the crowd.

Rashid or bust for Titans

On par with what Titans are in a pursuit, they were facing it rapidly when each of their main three players succumbed to single digits. Between them, Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya, and Wriddhiman Saha scored 12 runs.

With a charming little cameo, Vijay Shankar maintained the possibility of the improbable. However, he was bowled by Piyush Chawla’s first ball of the match, ending the 34-year-old IPL legend’s career with 18 wickets.

On the other side, a rookie player who was 29 years old was having the time of his life. Because Mumbai’s bowling attack was causing so much trouble, Akash Madhwal entered the tournament. This was only his fourth IPL match and his 26th T20 match. Additionally, he already demonstrates a willingness to work hard. bowling at the last minute, bowling to heavyweights, and bowling with games at stake

Madhwal owns a gorgeous yorkie. What’s more, presently, it seems his different balls are comparably lethal, in light of the fact that when he hits a hard length, they continue to slide through. He bowled Gill with a lower-than-expected ball that stayed in the air. He also used David Miller’s lbw the same way.

Rashid also led the Titans with the bat, scoring 79 runs off 32 balls and 10 sixes, his highest T20s score. 191 for 8 in 20 overs, an increase of 103 for 8 in 14 overs. However, it still fell 27 short. Imagine being three-fourths of the way to a century, taking one less than five wickets, and still losing the game.