MI vs SRH | Player Ratings - Hardik Pandya six in Super Over ensures Mumbai Indians’ win over Sunrisers Hyderabad

05/02/2019

Hardik Pandya redeemed himself with the bat in the Super Over after conceding a last-ball six and helped Mumbai Indians beat Sunrisers Hyderabad at the end. Quinton de Kock played a slow yet mature innings which had kept Mumbai in the game before Manish Pandey changed it in style.

Quinton de Kock (7.5/10): Twitter was divided on opinions on Quinton de Kock’s innings and while some people claimed that it was a mature innings, others were of the opinion that it was kind of a selfish innings. The nature of the wicket was confusing to give a real conclusion on the same, but the fact that de Kock managed to stay there until the end deserves more than a round of applause.

Rohit Sharma (4/10): With eagle eyes, cheetah hands and leaden feet, Rohit is capable of scoring runs at a pace that could only be termed riotous. He did give a glimpse of being in that zone tonight with a couple of perfect drives through cover and point, but the happiness turned into despair when he played an overambitious pull-shot against Khaleel Ahmed to bring curtains down on his innings for 24.

Suryakumar Yadav (5/10): The Mumbai Indians No.3 had to attack from the outset considering Quinton de Kock’s slow approach and the induced pressure that came with it which eventually got the better of Rohit Sharma too. In order to approach the outcome, the team badly needed Yadav to take risk and while he remained partly successful in doing so, reaching 23 in 17 balls, that cost him his wicket in the 12th over.

Evin Lewis (1/10): The same could be said about Evin Lewis as well but the fact that the Caribbean star batted slowly in his brief stay put him as a villain for Mumbai Indians. He took as many as five balls to open his account and his six-ball stay only resulted in a single. Lewis could’ve gone for the extreme and by virtue of being a left-hander, he could’ve negotiated the spinners effectively.

Hardik Pandya (8.5/10): It has become something of a truism in the IPL that Hardik's methods are out of the ordinary and if you bowl him at his slot, be prepared to face of the biggest scathing that one would ever see. Basil Thampi was late to understand that and by then, the all-rounder had dispatched him twice already. However, a collective effort to bring the length back caused concerns for Hardik and he could only muster seven runs after that. While Manish Pandey smacked him in the last over to take the game to the Super Over, Hardik redeemed himself with a solid six in his turn and took the team over the line.

Kieron Pollard (2/10): Although the Mumbai vice-captain started on a fashion, that he only can, that almost nullified to a larger extent as Bhuvneshwar Kumar kept on bowling short and wide outside off. Pollard’s diminishing power-hitting ability was also evident in the process as the all-rounder was waiting for the more often than not than actually hitting it across the line.

Krunal Pandya (8/10): Krunal Pandya had a field day tonight. Even though he was demoted in the batting order, he didn't let that affect him and sent Kane Williamson and Vijay Shankar back to the hut. Considering the left-arm angle was creating more pressure for an already under-pressure Shankar, he darted from round the wicket to take the leg-side out of the equation. Apart from that, his drift was near perfect and that gave him the ability to restrict the runs while picking wickets at the same time.

Barinder Sran (1/10): Wriddhiman Saha knew that Barinder Sran believes in targeting the pad on a regular basis and that’s why he kept the face of his bat open and played some of the finest flicks one could unleash. Sran was guilty of not changing his plan at all which resulted in the Punjab pacer giving away 24 runs in two overs.

Rahul Chahar (7/10): Rahul Chahar’s stocks are rising in an onward and upward with some real aggressive and economical bowling display. A perfect googly was compounded by a slowly coiling action and that was not easy for the duo of Manish Pandey and Vijay Shankar to take chances against him. The Junior Chahar ended up giving away 21 runs in four overs.

Jasprit Bumrah (7.5/10): He is the gold-standard of T20 bowling and all the talks that he delivers when no one else does are real. The Mumbai Indians pacer lived up to the lofty reputations by sending the opening duo of Wriddhiman Saha and Martin Guptill in two consecutive overs to bring Mumbai Indians back in the game.

Lasith Malinga(1/10): The Mumbai speedster bowled an impressive last over, but his first three overs were as bad as it could get. There was no control over the length and most importantly, Malinga’s lack of penetration with the new ball resulted in Sunrisers Hyderabad getting off to a good start.