Mumbai Indians broke their duck, ending an 8-match losing streak in IPL 2022 on captain Rohit Sharma’s 35th birthday as they thrashed Rajasthan Royals by 5 wickets at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Saturday.
MI picked themselves up after a series of terrific performances as their youth bowling unit stepped up and against a mighty Rajasthan batting unit young guns Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Verma pulled the team out of trouble as they crossed the finish line for the first time. helped in in season.
When Rohit was asked if he takes his first win as a birthday gift, he said, “I will definitely take it. That’s how we play. The real potential came to the fore today, especially with the ball.” “
“We knew it would be difficult to restrict them to that total, but I thought they would keep the pressure up. With that batting order, we knew if we kept taking wickets, it would be difficult for them. So that’s what we wanted Were to try and we totally did today,” Rohit said.
Orange Cap holder Jos Buttler threatened to hit six sixes in an over but managed to hit four sixes in his 52-ball 67. Threatening to go big, Rajasthan Royals were bundled out for 158 for six at the end of 20 overs.
Butler was not in his element for the better part of the innings before launching rookie off-spinner Hrithik Shokeen, hitting four consecutive sixes between long-on to long-off arcs.
He was dismissed in the deep off the final ball of the 16th over as MI prevented the England robber from inflicting more damage on the death.
The buff, who had bowled flat and agile in previous games, looked like a lamb to the slaughter, conceding 47 runs in 3 overs, including half a dozen sixes, forcing him to come around the wicket, but this Very little benefit.
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But that day, the MI attack fared better than the opening games, with newly inducted Kumar Karthikeya being extremely impressive in his first outing on the big stage.
Courageous Kartikeya, fond
Praising the young Shaukeen and Kartikeya, Rohit said: “These two guys are quite courageous. When you talk to them, you know they want to do something special and they don’t want to hide. It gives me Confidence to bowl to him at any level.
He said, “When I asked Shaukin to bowl to Butler, it was a brave call. Yes, he hit a few sixes, but eventually he got him out and that helped us restrict him to 10 or 15 runs. Got it. If you look at the overall look, we played very well. The bowlers came along and the batsmen did our job.”
The best bowler of the day for MI was Australian pacer Riley Meredith, who took 2 for 24 in the stipulated quota of four overs, cleverly mixing up variations of the slower deliveries over the course of two spells. He conceded only three runs in the 20th over.
Debutant Karthikeya (4-0-19-1) had nine dot balls, the prize wicket of rival skipper Sanju Samson, who by then had hit two sixes off Shaukeen and, more importantly, just 24 balls. A boundary was given, which spoke. about his nature.