Twitter reacts to Mumbai Indians’ rare loss and Shikhar Dhawan’s solid innings
The in-form Mumbai Indians failed to emulate their recent form as Sunrisers Hyderabad’s spinners kept them under check throughout the innings. But it was Shikhar Dhawan who won the hearts of Twitterati by scoring a majestic half-century after SRH had lost their skipper early.
Shikhar Dhawan produced a composed 62-run innings to chase down Mumbai’s paltry total of 138 with 10 balls to spare. The win keeps Hyderabad on track to making the playoffs whereas, after the third loss of the season, Mumbai will now have to beat Kolkata to secure the top spot on the table.
Brief Scores: Mumbai Indians 138/7 (Rohit Sharma 67, Parthiv Patel 23; Siddarth Kaul 3/24, Bhuvneshwar Kumar 2/29) lost to Sunrisers Hyderabad 140/3 (Shikhar Dhawan 62, Moises Henriques 44; Jasprit Bumrah 3/24, Mitchell McClenaghan 1/26) by 7 wickets.
Here are the best tweets from the match:
The umpiring crisis continues…
#SRHvMI One more instance of UMPIRE BLINDNESS. BCCI & IPL appear to carefully select visually handicapped as UMPIRES! Miserable tale!!
— EM RAO (@emr1002) May 8, 2017
Poor umpiring continues. At least they can refer these decisions to 3rd ump. But NO, they will refer easy run outs #SRHvMI
— manny (@friendymanny) May 8, 2017
Awesome Nabi!
#SRHvMI what a bowling Spell by Mohd Nabi 4
— Ankit Pandey (@Cricket_Ankit) May 8, 2017
overs just 13 runs and a wicket
awesome awesome
From his 2 games in this #IPL, Nabi now has a dot ball percentage of 54% (26 dots from 8 overs) #SRHvMI
— The Cricket Prof. (@CricProf) May 8, 2017
They are pretty much the same except for their bowling!
Dinda must be watching kauls bowling and wondering where he went wrong #IPL #SRHvMI #sameshit
— 5Y (@5ytix) May 8, 2017
That's harsh on Bhajji
Harbhajan bowls like he's seen the FUTURE
— M (@R8isM) May 8, 2017
FUTURE is him not getting called back to team India ever 😂#srhvMI #SRHvsMI
More criticism for umpires
😠😠 MI again. First Umpires save rohit and then cheat again by giving Warner out. 😠😠 #SRHvMI #VIVOIPL
— Suyash Swaroop🏏 (@sscomp32) May 8, 2017
We should have DRS in IPL..
— Dharmveer Singh (@ImDharmveer) May 8, 2017
worst umpiring this year..
Sad to see batsman getting out or surviving with help of poor umpiring..#SRHvMI #ipl
Not much he can do about that
Parthiv Patel is playing middle monkey 🐒 with the throws from the deep!#SRHvMI
— Sai Veer (@SaiVeer07) May 8, 2017
The reason behind Dhawan's form
Dhawan trying to justify his selection in the #ChampionsTrophy2017 by scoring some 27-28 runs #SRHvMI #IPL2017
— TheGoanPatiala (@TheGoanPatiala) May 8, 2017
Sharma & Dhawan showing why they were picked ahead of "some" of the so called IPL players. BCCI trolled crying twitter fans again 😁 #SRHvMI
— Apurva (@MaiYahanHoon) May 8, 2017
DD fans be like
#DD players right now...also the Dravid fan in me 😢#SRHvMI pic.twitter.com/izjRr5UjZl
— urstrulyKajal (@BanarasiBasanti) May 8, 2017
Not the best move
If Yuvraj is unfit then why did he come out to bat? To increase the required run rate? 🤔#SRHvMI #IPL
— Waѕiyullah Budye (@WasiyullahB) May 8, 2017
Not for the first for sure
Sanjay Manjrekar should apply a job with Mumbai Indians. Boring and biased commentary. #SRHvMI
— Saurabh Gupta (@Saurabh_910) May 8, 2017
Only one team showed up today
Looks like #Mi players have gone in to sleep mode 😴#srhvMI #SRHvsMI
— M (@R8isM) May 8, 2017
#SRHvMI its like MI are not even trying to win. All catches were catchable but none tried to catch. Didn't try hard to score runs either.
— Amruth jagtap (@Amruth_jagtap) May 8, 2017