SRH vs MI Turning Point of The Match: Hardik’s stubbornness proved costly for Mumbai

SRH vs MI: SRH defeated Mumbai Indians by 31 runs in this match.

The eighth match of IPL 2024 is being played today between Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Mumbai Indians at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. In this match, Mumbai Indians had to face defeat by 31 runs. Batting first, SRH scored 277 runs at the loss of 3 wickets in 20 overs, which is the highest total in IPL history. In response to the target of 278 runs, Mumbai could score only 246 runs at the loss of five wickets in 20 overs.

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SRH vs MI: Today was entirely about batting. First, Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma and Heinrich Klaasen played stormy innings for Hyderabad. On behalf of Mumbai, everyone from Rohit Sharma to Romario Shepherd batted well and managed to get close to the target to some extent. But there is only one question in everyone’s mind at this time that this match was the turning point.

SRH vs MI Turning Point of The Match (Abhishek-Travis Head’s innings, Hardik’s insistence)

SRH vs MI: In this match, Abhishek Sharma completed his half-century in 16 balls and by doing so, he also made the record of scoring the fastest half-century for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Earlier this record was in the name of Travis Head. Travis Head had made this record in the same match by scoring a half-century in 18 balls before Abhishek Sharma. But Abhishek Sharma left Travis Head behind within a few minutes. From there, Mumbai Indians were left far behind in this match.

SRH vs MI: In this match also, Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya made the same mistake that he had made against Gujarat Titans in his first match of the season. In this match too, Hardik made Bumrah bowl only one over (fourth) in the powerplay. After that Bumrah was called to bowl in the 12th over. Despite knowing that other bowlers were proving to be expensive in this match, Hardik’s insistence on not making Bumrah bowl became costly for him.

In this match, Bumrah was the only bowler among all the Mumbai bowlers who gave runs at an economy rate of less than 10. In such a situation, if Bumrah had bowled one over in the beginning then perhaps the result of the match could have been different.