And Green has done it for Mumbai. He has hit a ton and has led his team to a wonderful win over SRH. MI go on 16 points
MI need just 9 runs now from 18 balls. No we are not done with the 17th over yet. Kartik's no-ball means another ball in the over. 8 needed off 18 balls
12 overs done in the chase and MI are ahead at the moment. SRH would be ruing on the chances that they have missed. 69 runs are needed off 48 balls and MI are coming close.
And now Rohit has scored a fifty in the game. He has came back well in the game. He was earlier struggling for runs in this game too but has found ways to score runs. MI are getting near it
And here's Green's fifty. He is batting extremely well. He is finding the middle of the bat on most ocassions and MI are well on course to chase it.
It's proving out to be a great decision to send Cameron Green up the order. He has hit 30 runs in 10 balls and MI are at 60 in 6 overs.
MI lose first wicket and not an ideal start for them in the chase. Ishan Kishan has mistimed his pull and has been caught out by Harry Brook. MI 1 down.
Here are the MI openers. Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan are in the middle
And SRH have breached the 200-mark finally. A six from Markram to get them there on the final ball.
SRH are now giving their advantage. They have lost 5 wickets
No hundred for Mayank today. He goes back for 83. Akash gets the second wicket as well. SRH two down
And here's the first wicket of SRH. Vivrant has been caught out at deep in the leg side. He goes for 69
And now Mayank gets to his fifty as well.
It's a fifty for Vivrant. His first in the IPL and what a time for that to come.
SRh are piling pressure on MI bowlers. They have made 79 runs from 9 overs.
SRH have made 22 runs in the first three overs. Mayank has hit two fours in the 3rd over
And the action is underway at Wankhede. SRH openers - Vivrant and Mayank are in the middle. Yet another opening combination for SRH. Vivrant is opening for the first time in IPL. Behrendorff to start for MI
Ramandeep Singh, Vishnu Vinod. Tristan Stubbs, Tilak Varma, and Sandeep Warrier are impact sub options for MI
Mayank Markande, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Akeal Hosein, and Abdul Samad are impact sub options for SRH
We look to finish strong. Another chance for the squad and a few of the players. There are a couple of changes. Can't remember most of them. Vivrant and Umran return. It's a high scoring venue. It should be a great time for the batters as we have nothing to lose.
Mayank Agarwal, Vivrant Sharma, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Harry Brook, Nitish Reddy, Glenn Phillips, Sanvir Singh, Mayank Dagar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik
We will chase. It's just the nature of the pitch. Looks a little dry as well. Whatever it has to happen will happen in the first innings. Shokeen is not playing. Kartikeya comes in. It is a tricky one. We just want to win and not think about how to do it (on playoff race). Winning gives us a chance. Not looking too far. We have talked in the team meeting what we need to do. We have played an afternoon game before and are aware of what the pitch and the conditions here. You just need to play well to win.
Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan(w), Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Chris Jordan, Piyush Chawla, Jason Behrendorff, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal
MI have won the toss and they will be bowling first. Shokeen is not playing, Kartikeya comes in for MI
Suryakumar ahead of the match:
It's just another match for us. Agreed that from outside it looks like it's a big one and we have to wait for other results, et cetera, but we are aware of what we have been doing here at Wankhede in the last four-five games. So we know our strengths. So we will back that and focus on that."
SRH coach Brian Lara
This game tomorrow and the previous game, you want to see players stand up, so we are relaxed in our selection policy and display a team out on park that will compete. I don't think we shuffled too much unnecessarily. We played the best 12 players that we could find. We have to learn from and it's not a great idea to think about what went wrong
After LSG and CSK's win, just one spot remains vacant in the IPL 2023 playoffs. MI, RCB and RR are in contention for it. Mumbai need a win to stay in hunt for the playoffs. Ideally, for MI to qualify, they need a win and RCB should lose. Otherwise even if RCB win by a run, MI need a 79-run win to go ahead of RCB on NRR. RR can go through only if MI and RCB lose and the latter lose by 6 or more runs.
The pitch at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium totally favors big hitters in T20 cricket. The average first innings score here is 170 in 108 IPL matches so far. Among all venues in IPL 2023, Mumbai has the highest first innings average of 200-plus.
MI's squad:
Rohit Sharma (c), Ishan Kishan (wk), Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Nehal Wadhera, Tim David, Hrithik Shokeen, Chris Jordan, Piyush Chawla, Jason Behrendorff, Akash Madhwal, Ramandeep Singh , Vishnu Vinod, Tristan Stubbs, Kumar Kartikeya, Raghav Goyal, Dewald Brevis, Sandeep Warrier, Riley Meredith, Shams Mulani, Arjun Tendulkar, Tilak Varma, Duan Jansen, Arshad Khan
SRH's squad:
Aiden Markram (c), Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Harry Brook, Glenn Phillips, Abdul Samad, Kartik Tyagi, Mayank Dagar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nitish Reddy, T Natarajan, Mayank Markande, Vivrant Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Sanvir Singh, Akeal Hosein, Marco Jansen, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Adil Rashid, Anmolpreet Singh, Umran Malik, Upendra Yadav, Samarth Vyas
Hello and a warm welcome everyone to the live coverage of the match number 69 in IPL 2023. It's Mumbai Indians vs Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Sunday double header. I Varun Malik, will be alongside you in this crucial game of the league stage.
