IPL 2020 Final: MI vs DC: Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals 5 wickets

 Rohit Sharma's 68 and Trent Boult's 3/30 helped Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals to win their fifth IPL title.

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IPL 2020 Final: Rohit Sharma's 68 and Trent Boult's 3/30 - including two wickets in his first two overs - helped Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals by five wickets in the final of Indian Premier League 2020. With this win, Mumbai added a fifth IPL title to their kitty, more than any other team in the 13-year history of the league. 

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Chasing 157 to win, Mumbai got 33 off the first three overs as Quinton de Kock tore into the Delhi bowlers. He was dismissed by Marcus Stoinis but Rohit carried on to hit a match-defining fifty and stitched crucial partnerships with de Kock (20), Suryakumar Yadav (19) and Ishan Kishan (33 not out) to keep Mumbai in control. Earlier, Shreyas Iyer (65 not out) and Rishabh Pant (56) helped Delhi score 156 for 7 after they were 22 for 3 at one stage. Boult got three while Nathan Coulter-Nile got two wickets for Mumbai.

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IPL 2020: In the first qualifier of the 13th season in Dubai, Mumbai scored a big score of 200 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs, after which Delhi's team was able to score 143 runs for 8 wickets.

Record four-time champions Mumbai Indians defeated Delhi Capitals by 57 runs in the first qualifier of IPL-13 and went straight to the final. On Thursday in Dubai, Mumbai scored a big score of 200 for 5 wickets in 20 overs, after which the Delhi team could only manage 143 runs after losing 8 wickets.

Suryakumar Yadav (51) and Ishan Kishan (55 *) scored half-centuries for Mumbai, while opener Quinton de Kock scored 40 and Hardik scored an unbeaten 37. Chasing a target of 201 runs, Delhi all-rounder Marcus Stoynis smashed 65 runs. At the same time, Mumbai's star pacer Jasprit Bumrah took the maximum 4 wickets for just 13 runs.

Delhi will get one more chance

Delhi, led by young batsman Shreyas Iyer, will get another chance to reach the final. Whichever team wins in the Eliminator match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad will take on Delhi's second qualifier and the winning team gets a place in the final.

Mumbai set 201 target in front of 

Delhi despite the setbacks from experienced Ravichandran Ashwin, Mumbai Indians scored a strong 200 for 5 with the help of half-centuries from Suryakumar Yadav and Ishaan Kishan. Ashwin took three wickets for 29 runs but meanwhile Quinton de Kock (40 off 25 balls), Suryakumar (51 off 38 balls, six fours, two sixes) and Kishan (55 not out 30 balls, four fours, three sixes) Played useful innings.

Stoinis 'belligerent innings, the half-century put on for Delhi by Marcus Stoinis' 65 runs. If he did not settle at the crease, the difference of Delhi's defeat could have been quite large. Stoynis shared a 71-run partnership for the sixth wicket with Akshar Patel. He completed his third half-century of the current season off 36 balls. He was bowled by Jaspreet Bumrah. Stoinis hit 6 fours, 3 sixes in his innings of 46 balls.

Bolt gave a 'double' blow to Delhi in the very first over, 3 wickets fell on '0', chasing a difficult target of 201 runs, Delhi team started badly and their 2 wickets fell in the first over. Pacer Trent Bolt caught Prithvi Shaw (0) on the second ball by De Cock. Then Rahane was lbw out on the 5th ball. In the very next over, Jasprit Bumrah bowled Shikhar Dhawan (0) so that Delhi's 3 wickets fell without opening the account.

Captain Shreyas Iyer (12) of Delhi was caught by Jasprit Bumrah in the hands of Rohit. Iyer hit 3 fours in his 8-ball innings. Delhi's fourth wicket fell on the 5th ball of the fourth over. After this, wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant (3) had expectations that he would play resiliently but in the course of playing a big shot off the ball of Krunal Pandya, he caught Suryakumar, causing Delhi's 5th wicket to fall to a team score of 41.

Hardik's blitz In the death overs, Hardik Pandya scored an unbeaten 37 off 14 balls with the help of five sixes, which helped Mumbai collect 55 runs in the last three overs. In the first ten overs, if Suryakumar conceded the innings, then in the final 10 overs, Kishan handled the task well. Both of them held one end despite falling wickets at regular intervals.

Kishan and Hardik added 60 runs

Ishaan Kishan and Hardik Pandya scored fast runs in the end. Both of them beat the Delhi bowlers fiercely and eventually shared a 60-run partnership from 23 balls. Two of Delhi's leading bowlers, Kagiso Rabada (42 runs, no wickets) and Enrique Nortje (one wicket for 50 runs), conceded 92 runs in eight overs.

Rohit flopped again, Pavilion returned without opening account

In the IPL, 20 of the last 26 matches have been won by the team batting later and so Iyer did not take any time to hand the bat to Delhi by winning the toss. In the first over of Daniel Symes, Di Cock scored 15 runs with the help of three fours but Rohit Sharma failed in his second consecutive match after recovering from injury. Ashwin lbw Rohit lbw on a beautiful off break. Rohit equaled the record of Harbhajan Singh and Parthiv Patel in the IPL, having been out for zero 13 times.

Suryakumar's 100th IPL Match, 11th Fifty

De Kock maintained his aggressive temper and he was supported by new batsman Suryakumar, leading Mumbai to 63 for one in the Powerplay. Suryakumar hit Ashwin with two sixes on target but the off-spinner forced De Kock to take a waving catch in the air. Di Cock hit five fours and a six. Nortje sent Suryakumar to the pavilion who completed a half-century with a visible four at midwicket before being caught at the boundary line. Suryakumar scored his fourth half of the season and his 11th half-century in the 100th IPL match.

Kishan completed Fifty on the last ball

Ashwin did not even let Pollard open the account. Kishan changed gears after this. Kishan's six on the deep square leg at Rabada was visible. Krunal also hit an easy catch on the ball of Marcus Stoinis after hitting a six over Nortje. Hardik and Kishan hit sixes in Sam's 18th over. Hardik spoiled his bowling analysis by hitting two sixes off Rabada and Norte. Kishan completed his half-century by sending the last ball of Nortje's innings for a six. He scored his fourth half of this season and his 7th IPL career.

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Chasing 149, Quinton de Kock and Rohit Sharma got off to a strong start. Rohit started batting after De Cock hit a half-century, but was dismissed for 35. Suryakumar Yadav was also dismissed for 10 runs. But De Cock kept hitting. He scored an unbeaten 78 off 44 balls with the help of 9 fours and 3 sixes. Hardik Pandya scored 21 off 11 balls.

Earlier, Kolkata's new skipper Eoin Morgan won the toss and elected to bat first but his decision failed. Opener Rahul Tripathi was dismissed for 7 runs. Nitish Rana was also dismissed for 5 runs. Shubman Gill, who was stationed on the pitch, was also caught by a wrong shot. He scored 21 off 23 balls. Dinesh Karthik was also dismissed for 4 off the next ball. Rahul Chahar took 2 wickets in 2 balls to make Kolkata worse. Andre Russell followed suit. But skipper Eoin Morgan and all-rounder Pat Cummins saved Kolkata's innings. The duo hit the ground running till the end and gave the team a lead of 148 runs. Pat Cummins hit an unbeaten 53 in the first half. Captain Morgan scored an unbeaten 39 runs.

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 Mumbai Indians defeated Delhi Capitals by five wickets in a match played at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in IPL-13 on Sunday on the basis of their all-round play.

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IPL 2020: The Mumbai Indians (MI) team prevailed over Delhi Capitals (DC) in the point table battle. In the 27th match of IPL 2020, Rohit Sharma (Rohit Sharma) captained team won by 5 wickets and reached the top of the points table on the basis of run-rate with 10 points. Talking about the match, Delhi scored 162 for 4 wickets on the basis of Shifty Dhawan (69 not out). In response, Mumbai won the match scoring 166 for 5 wickets thanks to Suryakumar Yadav (53) and Man of the Match Quinton de Kock (53).

Coming to bat after winning the toss, Delhi Capitals lost their opener Prithvi Shaw in the very first over, after hitting the second ball of Trent Boult (one wicket for 36 runs) after hitting the next ball on the short cover, Krunal Pandya (26 runs) Two wickets in catch) returned to the pavilion. Ajinkya Rahane (15 runs, three fours), who played the first match for Delhi, was also dismissed early. The score was reduced to 24 for two.

Now Iyer and Dhawan were at the crease. The team scored 46 runs losing two wickets in the powerplay. Both Iyer and Dhawan started to build a good partnership by taking a couple of runs in between, besides comfortably scoring a couple runs. The team's score was 80 for two wickets till 10 overs. Dhawan and Iyer shared 85 runs for the third wicket in 10.2 overs.

Dhawan completed his half-century in 39 balls with four fours and a six after taking a single off Bolt for fours in the 16th over. In this over, 16 runs were scored from three fours. The Delhi team, however, could not score much runs in the last four overs in which they scored 35 runs. Alex Carrie remained unbeaten on 14 at the other end.

Mumbai's team started off chasing average targets and it was a poor start. Captain Rohit Sharma (5) was caught at the boundary line by Kagiso Rabada on the ball of Akshar Patel in the wake of taking a big hit. In this way, Rohit, who played his 150th match for Mumbai, could not do anything special with the bat.

However, Rohit's dismissal did not have much effect on Quinton de Kock. He hit Norte for two sixes in an over after putting Ashwin on six. Quinton de Kock completed the half century, hitting a four on the fourth wicket of the 9th over. This was his second fifty in his last 3 matches. However, Quinton de Kock, seen in the form of vigorous form, was called R. Ashwin did the end of the fight while grabbing Prithvi Sau. He scored 53 runs in 36 balls with the help of 4 fours and 3 sixes.

Suryakumar Yadav took over after De Kock departed. He completed half century in just 30 balls, batting Dhansu. He crossed the figure with a six off Rabada on the third ball of the 15th over, but in the same over, he was caught out by Shreyas Iyer in the wake of a big hit. He scored 53 runs in 32 balls with the help of 4 fours and a six. However, he had done his job and Mumbai was in a strong position. When he was out, the team's score was 130 runs.

Birthday Boy Hardik Pandaya (0) was dismissed by Marcus Stoinis, while Ishaan Kishan, who scored a stormy 28 from 15 balls, was followed by Kagiso Rabada. Kishan hit two fours and two sixes. However, these two wickets did not make much difference.

Mumbai needed 7 runs to win in the last over to win and they won the match with two balls to spare. Krunal Pandya gave Marcus Stoinis a winning four. Pollard 11 and Krunal Pandya 12 not out.

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IPL 2020: Defending champions Mumbai Indians registered their second win in a row and moved to the top of IPL 2020 Points Table, after beating SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 34 runs in a high-scoring contest at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Sunday. Chasing 209 to win, David Warner and Jonny Bairstow got their side off to a decent start, adding 34 runs in first four overs. Trent Boult broke the partnership sending Bairstow back to the pavillion within the fifth over. Warner and Manish Pandey batted with intent and didn't allow the desired run-rate to get out of their reach. However, just when the game was looking in the balance, James Pattison got eliminate Manish Pandey in the 10th over to derail their chase. From there on, Warner fought as a lone warrior as none of the SRH batsmen gave him enough support from the other end. Warner, the most successful overseas batsman in IPL history, completed his first half-century of the season, scoring 60 off 44 balls, but couldn't get his side across the finishing line .

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Earlier, Quinton de Kock scored his first fifty of the season as Mumbai Indians posted a formidable 208/5 in 20 overs. De Kock, struggling for form before this game, announced his arrival with a well-crafted 67 off 39 balls, providing a solid platform for the pinch hitters like Hardik Pandya and Kieron Pollard. After deciding to bat, Mumbai Indians suffered a major blow as they lost their skipper Rohit Sharma cheaply within the first over. Rohit started brilliantly pulling Sandeep Sharma over midwicket for a six but fell on the very next delivery after he tried to fetch a wide delivery.

After his departure, De Kock combined with Suryakumar Yadav (27 off 18 balls) and batted sensibly and added 42 runs for the second wicket, without taking undue risks. Siddarth Kaul struck on the penultimate delivery of the Powerplay to break the partnership. Ishan Kishan walked out to bat at No. 4 and laid the strong foundation batting alongside South Africa's limited-over skipper. Carrying on along with his good form, Ishan Kishan scored 31 off 23 balls, with the help of 1 four and two maximums. SRH bowlers pulled things back, removing both of them in quick succession. De Kock skied one up high within the air and Rashid Khan took an excellent catch off his his own bowling, while Manish Pandey pulled off a flying catch near the ropes to finish Ishan's innings. it had been a tailor-made condition for Mumbai Indians' big hitters Hardik Pandya and Kieron Pollard and they didn't disappoint, hitting deliveries to all parts of the ground. Hardik got out on the final over after a 19-ball 28 and was replaced by his elder brother Krunal Pandya at the crease. With just four deliveries left, Krunal went all guns blazing and smashed 20 off just four balls to take Mumbai Indians total past 200-run mark.

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