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Live Report - Ricketon, Suryakumar fifties and Bumrah four-for help MI to NRR-boosting win
By S SudarshananMI end the LSG stronghold
In addition to his quick cameo on debut, Bosch gets on the board for his first IPL wicket - a 133.8kph yorker on off and middle that ends Bishnoi's stay. Boult then yorks Rathi on the final ball of the innings to bowl LSG out for 161.
And so, MI continue to win on ESA game day. Last year they thrashed DC, thanks to Romario Shepherd heroics. This time, Rickelton and Suryakumar stood up with the bat before Bumrah snared four. Another memorable day out for the 20k school children at the Wankhede. One they would recall for years to come. A net-run-rate-boosting 54-run win for MI, who win their fifth match on the trot to move up to No. 2 on the points table (will move to third after the DC-RCB game).
One believe-it-or-not stat to end this live report - this is MI's first league-stage win over LSG, and only their first win in last four matches against them.
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Bishnoi's sixes
LSG battling a losing cause. Perhaps to reduce the dent on their net run rate. And Bishnoi decides to have some fun. He gets a short ball angling in, clears front leg and deposits it over deep backward square leg. And then when Bumrah is about to finish a very economical spell, Bishnoi spoils his figures. He tonks a length ball into the wide long-on stands to end Bumrah's spell on 4-0-22-4. This is the first time in a T20 innings that Bishnoi has hit two sixes
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B-B deal body blow
First Boult returns for the 14th and strikes. He sends back an on-song Badoni for a 22-ball 35. Boult angles one across the batter on a shortish length, which Badoni only tamely steers to backward point.
And then Bumrah, bowling the last over of the middle phase, sends back Miller for 24 off 16. He bowls it full on the pad, an easy flick you'd think. He flicks it high and deep square leg takes a well-judged catch. Two balls later, Bumrah gets a slower offcutter to dip from a fullish length to outfox Abdul Samad. And then a perfect yorker on the final ball of the 16th sends back Avesh for a first-baller.
LSG 142 for 8 after 16
In the spotlight: Mayank Yadav
Sidharth Monga also notes that Mayank Yadav has returned from injury as a slower bowler.
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Boult in blue
After his Player-of-the-Match efforts in the last match, Boult said this:
The first thing is you have to always want the ball. This tournament's such a big tournament, you're coming up against the best players, and it's always a big desire for me to take on the best players.
In IPL 2025, he has been used across phases quite regularly. A couple of overs upfront, an over or so in the middle and one at the death has been a general template. Today, he bowled just the one over in the powerplay. Hardik turned to him when the Marsh-Badoni partnership was worth 45 off 27.
Boult delivers immediately - a back-of-a-length slower one that Marsh fails to pick. He top-edges a pull that is gobbled up by Tilak running in from deep backward square leg. This is Boult's first wicket in the middle-overs in IPL 2025
LSG keep up
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Badoni keeps LSG in the chase by taking on Karn, who has returned from injury. He first tonks one over long-off, then makes room and goes inside out over extra cover for another six. A couple of balls later, he used the width and his bottom hand to slice one past point. LSG take 20 off the tenth to move to 103 for 3. At this stage, MI were 105 for 2.
In focus: Rishabh Pant
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Have your say
Should Rishabh Pant relinquish LSG captaincy?
6.9K votesWhat!? Are you serious?
Yes please, high time
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Jacks of all trade!
How many overs had Jacks bowled in IPL 2025 before Sunday? Nine. He had proven to be hard for SRH batters to get away. And on Sunday, Jacks strikes first ball to take a big scalp - Pooran. He flights one full on off, Pooran looks to go downtown and hits it down to Suryakumar - with the Orange Cap - at long-off. Massive wicket.
Two balls later, Jacks accounts for LSG captain Pant, too, to extend his lean patch this season. Pant looks to cut the first ball he faces but gets a thick edge through where slip would have stood. Next ball, he looks to reverse sweep a flighted ball outside off but spoons it straight to short third. A two-ball four for Pant and Jacks is on a roll. LSG 64 for 2 in 6.3 overs
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LSG Pooran power!
MI started it well. They knew what to expect from a batting side in pursuit of a tall total. They bring on Bumrah quite early - by IPL 2025 standards. He bowls the third and the fifth over. Marsh clubs him over forward square leg for a 95m six. Bumrah does not give him pace after that. In any case, the two Bumrah overs in the powerplay go for 13 runs and the wicket of Markram.
At the other end, Nicholas Pooran wants to go hard. The track is quite flat. But MI pacers don't offer him much. He goes hard at a back-of-a-length ball and nearly hits it down long leg's throat. And then he takes full toll of the sixth over. Chahar offers him width on two successive balls. Pooran scythes it over deep third for sixes. The second instance was much closer, though - Boult charges in to his left and leapt, the ball flying just over his hands. Pooran clubs one more six in the over to take 20 off it. Earlier, MI had scored 19 off the last over of their powerplay (bowled by Rathi). LSG 60 for 1 after 6
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Wankhede Boooooooms!
171 Wickets for Bumrah in the IPL, the most for an MI bowler going past Malinga
The Markram-Marsh pair had three fifty-plus opening partnerships in IPL 2025. For LSG to have hopes of chasing 216, they needed to start well and that they did. Markram hit two fours in Boult's opening over, Marsh greeted Chahar to the bowling crease with a six.
Bumrah, brought on in the third over, found success immediately. He angled a length ball in to Markram, who flicked and found deep square leg to perfection. It is just the third sub-20 partnership for Markram-Marsh this season and the kids at the Wankhede have another reason to cheer out loud. LSG 18 for 1 in 2.4 overs
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LSG in powerplay
9 Wickets lost by LSG in the powerplay in IPL 2025 before today. They are on par with RR and only GT fare better with just six wickets lost in the first six overs
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LSG's opening partnership
44.44 The average for LSG's first-wicket partnership in IPL 2025
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The last time these two teams met at Wankhede
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LSG need 216 to win
Dhir does a SKY as MI end with a flourish! MI score 53 at the death (overs 17-20) to set LSG a tall ask. These are the most runs LSG have conceded in the last four overs in IPL 2025. All five bowlers used today conceded more than 40 runs. And it is just the third time all bowlers in an IPL game conceded over 40, all of the three instances occurring in IPL 2025.
Dhir finished unbeaten on 25 off just 11 balls. It followed fifties from Rickelton and Suryakumar that set them the base.
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Oh my gosh Bosch!
A memorable start to Corbin Bosch's IPL career. He came in at No. 8 after Suryakumar's fall and injected the momentum MI needed to cross 200. An under-edge on the reverse sweep against Rathi got him underway with a four. And then he slog swept one over deep midwicket for half a dozen a few balls later. Against Avesh in the final over, he carved one over covers before holing out to long-on for a 10-ball 20.
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SKY falls
Suryakumar is gone after a breezy innings. He was particularly severe on Bishnoi's legspin, taking him for 23 off 8 balls, including two fours and two sixes. He once again used a combination of sweeps - from slog sweeps to pick-up shots over 45 - to great effect, scoring 23 in six attempts. Avesh returns to remove him just in time when the death overs begin, having SKY miscue one to extra cover
10 Successive IPL innings in which Suryakumar now has at least 25 runs
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The final phase
10.19 MI's death-overs (17-20) run-rate in IPL 2025 before Sunday. Only RR (10.18) and CSK (10.11) score slower
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Suplaaaaaaa shot!
Prince bowls a short ball outside off. It could be upper cut over short third. It could be conventionally pulled over deep third or deep midwicket. What does Suryakumar do? He goes back and across the crease first. He then bends and gets his back knee on the ground. Then proceeds to play the pick-up pull that sails into the fine leg stands. ESPNcricinfo logs record it as the scoop. But there is perhaps no one way to describe SKY's antics.
Suryakumar is on 44 off 21 balls just as the second timeout is called. He passed 150 IPL sixes in this knock. Ominous signs for LSG. MI 157 for 4 in 15 overs
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4000 IPL runs for SKY!
Fastest to 4000 IPL runs (by balls):
2658 - Chris Gayle
2658 - AB de Villiers
2714 - Suryakumar Yadav
2809 - David Warner
2886 - Suresh Raina
2658 - AB de Villiers
2714 - Suryakumar Yadav
2809 - David Warner
2886 - Suresh Raina
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No Ti-luck
Tilak Varma against LSG in IPL 2025:
retired out 25 (23) in Lucknow
caught in the deep 6 (5) in Mumbai
Looks to take on Ravi Bishnoi on the last ball of his spell and miscues it straight down deep midwicket's throat. Before Sunday, Tilak had scored 48 off 27 for no dismissal against Bishnoi.
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Vote! Vote! Vote!
Is it time for MI to look beyond Will Jacks?
160 votesNo, adds balance to their side
Yes, hasn't done much really
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Jacks done
Jacks was quite comfortable against fast bowling today. He scored 21 off the eight balls of that style at the Wankhede, hitting three fours and a six. Against spin, he could only score eight off 12 (no boundaries). But Prince, returning for the 12th over, got a full ball to sneak under Jacks, who looked to flick that away, and bowled him. MI 116 for 3 in 11.3 overs.
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Have your say!
Which of these aspects from Mayank Yadav impressed you today?
6.4K votesHis return itself
His pace and rhythm
Rohit's dismissal
Wasn't too impressive
Writing is on the wall ground!
Rathi takes out his trademark celebration - scribbling the batter's name on his grass-book! The reason? He pockets Rickelton to end his blazing half-century. He floats one outside off, asking the batter to go over the off side. All Rickelton can manage is a slice to Badoni at backward point. Was it an anticipated strike, though? Just before that ball, Rathi was asking Pant to adjust that fielder to be in a particular spot.
Much before that, Jacks showed off his wares against fast bowling. Avesh Khan was brought on in the eight over. Jacks made room on the first ball against him and lofted him over mid-off. And then when Avesh bowled on his pad, he whipped it away past Mayank at short fine leg, who did not move an inch.
MI 88 for 2 in 8.4 overs
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In a spin, but who?
After MI were off to a flier, Pant turned to spin quite early. Digvesh Rathi bowled the fourth and the sixth over of the powerplay, Ravi Bishnoi bowled the fifth. There was sound reason to that - before Sunday, Rickelton averaged 23 and struck at 118 against spin. Will Jacks, in at No. 3, had scored just 41 off 46 against that style of bowling to go with his three dismissals. On Sunday, MI scored 33 in the last three overs of the powerplay, 19 coming off Rathi's final over inside the powerplay.
Rickelton has been leading MI's charge today. He got a fortunate four off Rathi's last ball of the fourth over. He then used the slog sweep to various parts with immense success. First he slog-swept Bishnoi back over his head for half a dozen. Then in the sixth over, he took out that shot against Rathi for two more sixes over deep midwicket. After the powerplay, Rickelton completed a 25-ball fifty, his second in IPL 2025
At the other end, though, Jacks is on 3 off 7 balls
1 First time that Rathi was hit for a six in the powerplay in IPL 2025 - after 12 overs in the phase
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Rohit vs Mayank, a short story
Rohit hadn't faced Mayank in a competitive game before today. That did not matter for the former MI captain. Mayank began with a short ball angling down leg, which Rohit missed on the pull. And then came two strokes that got the children especially in the Vijay Merchant Pavilion excited. The first was a 141kph bouncer which Rohit sent well over deep square leg fielder. Mayank continued to go short again, the ball that climbed chest high, and Rohit was even more authoritative with the pull this time. He went for a third pull shot but missed out.
And his dismissal was a tame one - steering a slower length ball straight to short third that gave Mayank his first IPL. The atmosphere at the Wankhede then? It was as if the class teacher came in and asked the kids to maintain a pin-drop silence. MI 33 for 1 in 2.5 overs
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All Rickelton
Ryan Rickelton faced all of the first two overs. His first four was a push off Mayank's high-pace full ball past mid-off. But Rickelton came into his own in the Prince Yadav over. He heaved a length ball over midwicket before nearly taking Rohit Sharma with a bullet hit straight back. He also managed to clear the wide mid-on in the ring with another cross-batted heave as MI raced to 20 for 0 in two overs, 19 off Rickelton's bat
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Mayank Yadav is back, baby!
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Just as we know him. High on pace. Accurate, too. Four of the seven bowls he bowled in that opening over were above 141kph. The fastest ball was clocked at 142.7kph, which Ryan Rickelton looked to pull and missed because of being a tad late. His slowest in that over was the 135.6kph bouncer that was called wide. Looked in good rhythm and good that LSG did not delay getting him in the action.
After the toss, Mayank was seen warming up by bowling full tilt on the track three strips away from the match strip. Ran fast and bowled and the ball thudded into the support staff's mitts.
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LSG opt to bowl vs MI
Big news from LSG - Mayank Yadav in for Shardul Thakur. They have five proper bowlers and Aiden Markram as the sixth option in their bowl-first XI. They are likely to bring in David Miller, who is named among the subs. LSG dropping 'home boy' Thakur to accommodate Mayank does come as a surprise given Thakur knows this ground well since he plies his trade for Mumbai in the domestic circuit. But there seems to be logic in the axe - Thakur has conceded runs at over ten per over in six of his last seven outings in IPL 2025
MI have also sprung a surprise. For starters, Karn Sharma seems to have recovered from the split webbing and is back in the team. They have also handed a debut to South Africa seam-bowling allrounder Corbin Bosch in place of Mitchell Santner, who has a niggle. So they're going slightly pace-heavy with Jasprit Bumrah expected to come in as the Impact Player. Expect Will Jacks to put his offspin to use with no dew to contend with later in the evening.
MI's bat-first XI: Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton (wk), Will Jacks, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya (capt), Naman Dhir, Corbin Bosch, Deepak Chahar, Trent Boult, Karn Sharma
Subs: Jasprit Bumrah, Raj Bawa, Reece Topley, Robin Minz, S Raju
Subs: Jasprit Bumrah, Raj Bawa, Reece Topley, Robin Minz, S Raju
LSG's bowl-first XI: Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant (capt & wk), Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Digvesh Rathi, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Prince Yadav, Mayank Yadav
Subs: David Miller, Yuvraj Choudhary, Shahbaz Ahmed, Himmat Singh, Akash Singh
Subs: David Miller, Yuvraj Choudhary, Shahbaz Ahmed, Himmat Singh, Akash Singh
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View from the W
Outside the Wankhede Stadium, the usual buzz is missing. The crowd that usually greets team buses and the entourage as they enter the venue was missing. The lane outside the main gate bore a calm look - not routine for any match day at the Wankhede. That is neither because of the sweltering Mumbai heat nor because there are no spectators for this match.
Today's afternoon game is MI's annual ESA (Education and Sports for All) game, one they have been hosting since 2010. As part of this initiative, no tickets have been sold for the game. Instead, school children aged between 7 and 14 have been brought to the venue using more than 500 BEST and private busses. There's the usual chanting for various players and it almost seems as if we are back to school - the children walking to their stands in queues, them being assisted by the various volunteers and the odd group cracking jokes and what not!
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Welcome!
Mumbai Indians are back home. They have won four matches on the trot after winning just one in first five. Their last win took them to No. 3 on the IPL 2025 points table but now they are placed fifth after DC and RCB's wins took them to 12 points. Rohit Sharma is back among runs and Kieron Pollard had his I-told-you-so moment. Trent Boult's success makes MI feel good about their campaign.
Lucknow Super Giants began better. They won four out of six to start IPL 2025. NIcholas Pooran was firing. Mitchell Marsh found immense success as opener. Their unheralded bowling attack did well despite some absentees. All this meant Rishabh Pant's lack of runs wasn't a worry. But not it is. Pooran has scores of 8, 11, 9 in his previous three innings. LSG posted their lowest team total in the last outing. Pant was pushed down the order to No. 7. A muddle which seems tough to come out. Hemant Brar sums it up nicely with his first line in the match preview: It's not important where you are right now; what matters is the direction you are headed in.
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