Live Report: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Mumbai Indians, Hyderabad

Where have you heard that before? Full credit to Arjun though, even though the odds were in his favour to defend 19 runs. He bowled one accurate yorker after another, or really wide of the crease to keep the ball out of the batter's reach and conceded just three runs off the bat, apart from a leg bye and a wide.

Mumbai win their third straight game and jump to sixth place from eighth.

We've seen such things happen this IPL itself, no need to look back at the older IPLs. Abdul Samad on strike, Tendulkar to bowl. Deep third, deep point, long-off, long-on and deep midwicket are at the rope.

Washington Sundar will be cursing himself for that sloppy running after smacking Behrendorff for two fours and seeing five wides down the leg side. He goes to the other end for an easy single but a direct hit from David at mid-off finds him well short and Washington is not even trying to make his ground. Nevertheless, it's down to 24 from 12, and Abdul Samad is out there on 8 off 8.

The big question is: who will bowl the last, Tendulkar? Shokeen is the only other option.

"It ain't over till it's over," Rocky said, but right now Mumbai are well ahead because the hosts are seven down and need 43 from 18. We've seen stiffer asking rates being achieved even in this IPL, but as far as probability goes, Mumbai are well on top. Three overs to go and they have one left for Behrendorff and one for Green. Will Tendulkar bowl the last or even the 19th? It feels like Mumbai have been protecting him too much after the powerplay in his two games so far. Their other option is Hrithik Shokeen, and we have seen a fair bit of spin in the death overs this season.

They haven't made much of an impact today, but this IPL has made a difference for certain players.

Piyush Chawla had bowled his first three for just 22 runs and one wicket. The asking rate for SRH is already over 12 when Chawla comes on for his last over. Klaasen is on 16 off 11 after hitting two boundaries off the quicks. He gets strike on the second ball and with fielders behind point in the circle, he unleashes reverse sweeps for a four and six, and in between smokes a flat delivery over the bowler's head. He then goes back for two balls; one he manages to pull in the gap for four but for the last one he gets a lot more vertical than ground distance, and hands a skier to long-on. Twenty-one runs in the over, Chawla gets his revenge, for the lack of a better word, and SRH are five down.

They need 66 from 36 now and send out Abdul Samad as the impact sub.

SRH have a couple of big hitters left down the order but they really needed Markram to stay on for longer. He was looking solid, he was targeting the boundaries, and could have played a crucial hand in taking them close/home. It could have been discussed in the time out after eight overs when spinners bowled the two overs after the powerplay that it was better to bowl pace to Markram. He pulled Green's first ball for four but when he tried it again three balls later, he handed a simple catch to deep midwicket off a scrambled seam ball. He doesn't middle it and falls for 22 off 17.

Abhishek Sharma comes at No. 5 and on his second ball he lofts a catch straight down long-off throat off Chawla's googly. SRH in trouble, 73 for 4 after 9.1 overs. Agarwal their main hope even though he's looking far from his best.

Mumbai bowled only pace in the powerplay - three from Behrendorff, two from Tendulkar and one from Meredith. Behrendorff accounted for the first two wickets and Markram was watchful in the eight balls he faced in the powerplay, which they scored 42 off. But his eyes light up once the spinner - Hrithik Shokeen - comes on. Markram has a really good game against spin and even though Shokeen hasn't bowled bad, Markram dances down to smack a six for 12 runs off the over.

Watch out for Markram against spin, especially Piyush Chawla who has returned with a bang in this IPL. Markram against spin since IPL 2022: 251 runs off 175 balls with a SR of 143.42.

It's probably too early or harsh to say Brook struggles against spin, but he surely doesn't look as comfortable as he does against the quicks. In his century against KKR too, he slowed down against Narine and Chakravarthy, and preferred to rotate the strike instead while waiting for the quicks to return.

How early will we see the Mumbai spinners come on today then? Scratch that. Behrendorff has got Brook to miscue a pull off a short ball and Rohit has taken a dolly close to the pitch. MI have brought in Meredith for Tilak Varma as the impact sub meanwhile, and there are hardly any signs of dew yet.

Statsguru Shiva Jayaraman observes: T Natarajan has bowled 131 yorkers in the IPL. Only Jasprit Bumrah has delivered more yorkers than him in the IPL him since 2017 - Natarajan's debut season. There's a risk involved with attempting yorkers as even a slight error in length can result in full tosses or full-length balls - both excellent scoring opportunities for batters. That's perhaps the reason Natarajan has bowled an equal number of full tosses in the IPL and has conceded 284 runs off them. No bowler has conceded more runs of full tosses since Natarajan's debut season in the IPL. He's also conceded 28 fours and 16 sixes, both the most by any bowler since that season. It was a familiar story today - Natarajan bowled eight full tosses and landed just two yorkers, and ended up conceding 19 runs off the full tosses.

I repeat, this is not a batting pitch. And Mumbai's batting strength is such they've scored an above-par total, in my view. That despite two really good overs from death overs specialist Bhuvneshwar Kumar who bowled the 17th and 19th for just 14 runs combined. He took the pace off, bowled cutters and knuckle balls, bowled wide of the pitch and even pitched it short when the batters didn't expect it.

Natarajan leaks 50 runs but look at Bhuvneshwar's figures: 4-0-31-1. Five bowlers used by SRH, and one of them will be subbed out now for a batter.

This is not a batting pitch for sure. The ball is stopping, the cutters are deceiving the batters, the ball is holding up a bit. But here is Cameron Green, attacking non-stop, especially against Natarajan with his big swings, hard hands, power and smarts to target the gaps depending on the field changes. Gets to his maiden IPL fifty off 33 balls.

He started by scoring seven runs off his first eight balls before unleashing a barrage of sixes. After the two consecutive sixes off Jansen (mentioned below), he took on Markande's legbreaks with supple wristwork and dispatched Bhuvneshwar's slower ball for six before falling to Bhuvneshwar's knuckle ball.

Karthik Krishnaswamy tells me Tilak Varma has more middle-overs runs (479 at 137.64 SR) than any other batter since IPL 2022.

And how! What's worth praising about Mumbai this innings is they've been looking for boundaries every over and haven't let the scoring rate slip too much below eight an over. Now Green and Tilak Varma collectively take on Marco, the best bowler of the day, for 21 runs! Green starts the over by putting away two short balls that Marco is banging in while taking the pace off and rolling his wrist, before Tilak smashes two sixes to end the over. Lifts the scoring rate from 7.78 to 8.66.

Mumbai 130 for 3, five overs to go, seven wickets in hand. No signs of dew yet.

Two really good overs in the powerplay, a stunning effort at the boundary to nearly catch the ball and throw it inside with which he saved four runs, and then he returns for his third over to dismiss Kishan and SKY. Kishan gets a leading edge because Marco's height is such that the extra bounce, and then his cutter makes SKY chip a catch down to mid-off. In both cases, Markram completes two excellent catches. He's walking the talk after saying at the toss that they needed to lift their fielding standards.

A bit of stutter for Mumbai with the double blow, 95 for 3 after 12 overs.

Can't really say right now which team will be happier, maybe Mumbai, because they are 80 for 1 at the halfway mark. It doesn't look like a 200 pitch at all like we saw last night; there's some swing, some seam movement and the cutters are working too. For now, Mumbai have nine wickets in hand and Sunrisers are also doing well with the second overs of Washington and Natarajan after the powerplay.

Mumbai Indians race to 53 for 1. Unlike in the last game, it was Rohit who rushed off the blocks instead of Kishan initially. He took down Washington before going after Natarajan with two fours in three balls before Markram walked up to the bowler for some advice, Natarajan bowled a slow cutter on Rohit's pads, and the batter was deceived completely to miscue the ball to mid-off. Rohit gone for 28 off 18. Green at No. 3.

Kishan then finishes the powerplay with a six and two runs that could have been a six or a catch on any other ground. He heaved to the midwicket boundary, Agarwal put in a dive near the rope after a sprint but it was just out of his reach. It was the longer boundary Kishan went after and nearly cleared it.

SRH bring on Washington in the third over for the match-up against Rohit mentioned below, and Rohit takes him on for three consecutive fours straightaway - two on the leg side despite that being the bigger boundary and two fielders in the deep, and then one through cover point. Thirteen off the over and for anyone who has bowled more than an over in powerplays this IPL, Washington has the worst economy rate of 14.33. It's the fourth-worst overall.

Mumbai 33 for 0 after four overs.

Hello! No Umran Malik in the starting XI and SRH are bowling first; he is in the impact options but I don't see him coming in since they've opted to bowl. They have five proper bowling options apart from Abhishek Sharma. Their impact options are Abdul Samad, Vivrant Sharma, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Dagar, Umran Malik.

Mumbai are batting first, and they're playing seven strong batting options, followed by Chawla and Tendulkar, who can both bat. If they bat well, they could bring in someone like Meredith or Karthikeya in place of SKY because they're starting with three overseas in the XI. Their other Impact sub options are Ramandeep, Karthikeya, Mulani and Vishnu Vinod.

How early will we see powerplay specialist Washington Sundar bowl? Here's his match-up against Rohit: 25 runs off 26 balls with three dismissals.

Watch out for those sixes by the way when MI walk out to bat, not just because Kishan and Rohit have gone all guns blazing recently. The other reason is, Tim David and SKY are frequent six hitters; they are among the top three six hitters in all T20s since the start of 2022.

Rohit Sharma is back in the original XI and Sunrisers captain Markram has opted to bowl, not surprisingly. They'll field the same 16 that started in the previous game. "A bit of improvement can be done there," he says of their fielding and is excited to see his batters do well against the spinners (includes himself and Tripathi mainly).

Rohit wants his team to come out with the "same aggression" they showed against KKR at home couple of days ago. One change for them: Duan Jansen misses and Jason Behrendorff comes in. "Jason was always supposed to play but he was unwell in the last game," Rohit says. Shucks, Duan is neither in the XI nor in the sub options so we have been deprived of the twin brothers Duan and Marco playing against each other today.

Teams obviously prefer to chase in the 7.30 games because of dew and chasing is almost always better in T20 games. So no surprise from Markram. But Mumbai may not be too worried about batting first here. Teams batting first have won nine games compared to eight while chasing at this ground in IPL since 2018.

SRH: 1 Mayank Agarwal, 2 Harry Brook, 3 Rahul Tripathi, 4 Aiden Markram (capt.), 5 Abhishek Sharma, 6 Heinrich Klaasen (wk), 7 Washington Sundar, 8 Marco Jansen, 9 Mayank Markande, 10 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 11 T Natarajan

MI: 1 Rohit Sharma (capt.), 2 Ishan Kishan (wk), 3 Suryakumar Yadav, 4 Tilak Varma, 5 Cameron Green, 6 Nehal Wadhera, 7 Tim David, 8 Hrithik Shokeen, 9 Piyush Chawla, 10 Arjun Tendulkar, 11 Jason Behrendoff