“Rohit’s birthday is lucky for us”- Twitter reacts as Suryakumar Yadav and bowlers guide Mumbai to their first win in IPL 2022


“Rohit’s birthday is lucky for us”- Twitter reacts as Suryakumar Yadav and bowlers guide Mumbai to their first win in IPL 2022

Suryakumar Yadav

With the half-century knock from Suryakumar Yadav, Mumbai Indians received their first 2 points after defeating Rajasthan Royals by 5 wickets on Saturday, April 30 at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. RR had scored 158/6 with the help of only Jos Buttler’s half-century knock.

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Look at how Twitter reacted to the innings:

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Suryakumar Yadav shines with the bat

MI players

With a brilliant knock of 67, Jos Buttler saved Rajasthan Royals’ innings when every other batsman failed miserably to score runs against Mumbai Indians. Orange Cap holder Jos Buttler who first played a very slow game because on the other side wicket kept falling. But after his half-century, he played some incredible shots before giving his wicket to Hrithik Shokeen.

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MI responded with Suryakumar Yadav scored 51 off 39 by smashing 5 fours and 2 sixes. On the other side was Tilak Verma who kept aiding Suryakumar with his 35 runs off 30 balls.

On the 15th over, a ball on the middle by Yuzvendra Chahal let Suryakumar to skip down the track and look for a big one. It was and unnecessary shot and he mistimed it towards Riyan Parag at the long on who grabbed a sharp catch.

Tim David played a cameo role by smashing a quick 20 off 9 balls with 2 fours and a six to lift up MI’s innings.

“This is the team we played in the first couple of games except few bowling changes. When you have a season like that, you are not sure of your combination. You want to try out so many things. The conditions are different. The ball tends to grip here, the pitches are flat in the other venues. We try and field the best combination, it hasn’t worked for eight games,” said Rohit Sharma during the post-match presentation.

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