Hardik Pandya‘s Mumbai Indians have suffered their joint-worst performance in an Indian Premier League with a heartbreaking loss by the hands of Lucknow Super Giants on the Wankhede Stadium on Friday, May 17.
MI have been handed an 18-run drubbing by LSG and ended the season with simply 4 wins in their 14 matches. This is their joint-worst performance in a season, equalling their largest low of 2022 once they registered 4 wins and completed in the final place in the factors desk. This can also be solely the second time that the five-time champions have ended a season in the final place.
LSG made a robust 214/6 batting first on the again of a jaw-dropping 75 from Nicholas Pooran. MI have been hardly in the sport and even a robust 68 from Rohit Sharma may have saved them from this loss in entrance of their followers.
Naman Dhir was a shining star in a principally poor outing with the bat. He stored preventing regardless of wickets falling and Ishan Kishan discovering it laborious to get going from the opposite finish. Dhir struck a fifty and inflicted inconceivable hopes with a six off the primary ball of the twentieth over when MI wanted 34 to win. But all he may handle was 15 runs with two sixes to carry the defeat margin to 18 runs.
Dhir ended his innings unbeaten on 62 from 28 balls. He got here in to bat at Number 7 and registered the second-highest rating for MI at that place.
Highest rating batting at No.7 or decrease in the IPL for MI:
64 (24) – Harbhajan Singh vs PBKS, Wankhede, 2015
62* (28) – Naman Dir vs LSG, Wankhede, 2024*
52* (31) – Kieron Pollard vs RCB, Bengaluru, 2012
Mumbai Indians Playing XI: Ishan Kishan (wk), Naman Dhir, Suryakumar Yadav, Dewald Brevis, Hardik Pandya (c), Nehal Wadhera, Romario Shepherd, Anshul Kamboj, Piyush Chawla, Arjun Tendulkar, Nuwan Thushara.
Lucknow Super Giants Playing XI: KL Rahul (wk), Devdutt Padikkal, Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Arshad Khan, Matt Henry, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan.
