Kieron Pollard went fully berserk as Mumbai Indians eclipsed a big 219-run chase towards Chennai Super Kings in their Indian Premier League conflict on the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Saturday.
The right-handed batsman performed an unbeaten knock of of 87 from simply 34 deliveries, which included six boundaries and eight maximums.
Riding on Pollard’s herculean effort, Mumbai secured an exciting four-wicket win in the final ball of the match.
Kieron Pollard wins the Man of the Match award for his stupendous knock of 87* off simply 34 deliveries.
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After being put to bat first, CSK endured a blow early in the innings as opener Ruturaj Gaikwad’s poor run continued. However, Moeen Ali, who got here to bat on the quantity three place, took the matter into his personal fingers, as Faf du Plessis saved scoring at run a ball.
Ali went on to finish his fourth half-century of the season, earlier than he was dismissed by Jasprit Bumrah on 58 off 36 balls. Soon after his dismissal, CSK misplaced two wickets in the type of Du Plessis and Suresh Raina in fast intervals.
With CSK struggling at 116/4 in the twelfth over, Ambati Rayudu together with Ravindra Jadeja took cost and what adopted subsequent was absolute carnage.
Rayudu had an excellent day on the pitch because the veteran cricketer performed an imperious knock of 72* from simply 27 deliveries. Batting at a staggering strike-rate of 266.67, the right-handed batsman went on to smash 4 boundaries and 7 maximums, guiding CSK to an enormous whole of 218/4 in 20 overs.
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Rayudu reached his half-century in simply 20 deliveries, making him the joint second-fastest CSK batsman to finish the milestone. Suresh Raina presently tops the chart along with his 16-ball fifty towards Kings XI Punjab in 2014, adopted by 20-ball fifty by skipper MS Dhoni towards Mumbai Indians.
Such was his influence that he did not even spare Mumbai Indians’ premier seamer Jasprit Bumrah, who ended up with the most costly spell of his IPL profession. The bowler was hit for 21 runs in his third over, after Rayudu and Jadeja mixed to hit two fours and a six. Bumrah gave 56 runs and picked one wicket in his 4 overs.
In response to CSK’s gigantic 218/4, Mumbai obtained off to a powerful begin with skipper Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock including 71 for the opening wicket. Rohit was the primary man to depart after he was dismissed on 35 off 24 balls by Shardul Thakur.
Soon after the MI skipper’s dismissal, the defending champions misplaced two wickets in fast succession (De Kock 38(28) and Suryakumar Yadav 3(3)).
Krunal Pandya then chipped in with a helpful 32 off 23 in the center but it surely took some highly effective hitting by Pollard to assist Mumbai chase down the goal.
WHAT. A. WIN for the @mipaltan
Some critical hitting from @KieronPollard55 ( 87* off 34) as #MumbaiIndians win by 4 wickets.
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Apart from Pollard, Hardik Pandya smashed two sixes in Sam Curran’s penultimate over, which helped ease the stress upto a sure extent. Hardik was dismissed on 16 off 7 in the identical over.
Pollard then saved the strike to himself in the final over bowled by Lungi Ngidi because the Windies hitter smashed the Proteas fast for two bounadries and a six, earlier than finishing a double in the final ball to seal the win for Mumbai.
