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Mumbai Indians win their 5th IPL title [Photo-IPLT20]

Mumbai Indians once again displayed just why they are the best T20 side in the world as they brushed aside Delhi Capitals with absolute disdain to not only register their 5th IPL title but also become only the second team after Chennai Super Kings to win the back-to-back championships.

Chasing 157, the duo of Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock came to all guns blazing in the powerplay. Rohit Sharma launched Ravichandran Ashwin for a six in the first over before Quinton de Kock laid into Kagiso Rabada to smoke him for 18 in the next.

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Rohit Sharma [Photo-IPLT20]
The duo looked in imperious touch against both pace and spin. Rohit Sharma, especially looked in his elements today and it was testified with the audacious pull off Anrich Norje.

With Mumbai Indians racing to 45 in the first 4 overs, DC desperately needed a wicket and they got that courtesy Marcus Stoinis, who got de Kock caught-behind on his very first delivery.

The onslaught, however, continued as SuryaKumar Yadav announced his arrival with a four and six off Stoinis on his first two deliveries he faced to bring up MI’s 50.

Rohit regained his form when it really mattered and he, along with Yadav, continued to milk the spinners before he laid into Dubey in the 9th over by smoking him for two sixes.

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SuryaKumar Yadav run-our [Photo-IPLT20]
But just it looked like the duo would finish off the game in a canter, a horrible miscommunication between them led to the run-out of SuryaKumar Yadav. By the time, SuryaKumar Yadav could respond, Rohit was already close to him at the non-striker’s end. Yadav could have stood his ground paving the way for Rohit to get run-out, but given the way the latter was batting, he decided to sacrifice himself for the team’s cause.

But it did not really matter as Rohit Sharma en-route to his half-century continued with his merry way while Ishan Kishan once again displayed his talent with some sumptuous strokes. Kishan smoked Dubey for two fours in the 16th over to reduce the equation to just 20 of the last 24 balls.

Rohit was eventually dismissed for 68 thanks to a brilliant diving catch by Lalit Yadav while Kagiso Rabada knocked over Kieron Pollard but it really didn’t matter as Ishan Kishan ensured that he steered Mumbai Indians to an unprecedented 5th IPL title in the 19th over.

 

 

Half-centuries from Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant guided Delhi Capitals to 7-156 against Mumbai Indians

Batting first, Delhi Capitals would have hoped for another brilliant start by Marcus Stoinis and Shikhar Dhawan but it took just one ball from Trent Boult to shatter all those hopes. Boult beat Stoinis with the angle and the disconcerting bounce aimed at the body and the latter could only manage an edge that was safely gobbled by Quinton de Kock.

Jasprit Bumrah ensured that the pressure that Boult had put on DC was maintained as he bowled a brilliant second over where he nearly dismissed Dhawan with another brute yorker.

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Trent Boult [Photo-IPLT20]
Boult, on the other hand, continued to chip away at the wickets as he strangled Ajinkya Rahane.down the leg-side in his second over.

But the body blow came in the very next over bowled by Jayant Yadav, who cleaned up the in-form Shikhar Dhawan for a 13-ball 15.

Shreyas Iyer [65 off 50 balls] and Rishabh Pant then proceeded to consolidate the innings with brilliant running between the wickets and an occasional boundary.

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Rishabh Pant [Photo-IPLT20]
Pant finally broke the shackles with two sixes off Krunal Pandya in the 10th over to take the total to 3-75.

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Iyer and Pant (56 off 38 balls) smashed Kieron Pollard for a six and a four in the 12th over as the duo steadily clawed Delhi Capitals back in the game. The duo brought up the 100-run mark in the 14th over and Pant celebrated that with a paddle-sweep off Krunal Pandya as he neared his maiden IPL 2020 fifty.

The southpaw brought up his 50 with back-to-back boundaries off Nathan Coulter-Nile to become second-youngest to score a half-century in an IPL final. Bur NCN eventually had the last laugh as the southpaw holed out at deep fine-leg in an attempt to pull the fast bowler behind the square.

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Shreyas Iyer [Photo-IPLT20]
Shreyas Iyer notched up 500+ runs for the 1st time in his IPL career and in the process, he also brought up his half-century courtesy two boundaries off Bumrah in the 18th over as DC reached 4-136. Mumbai Indians, however, pulled it back brilliantly in the last three overs as they gave away just 20 runs to ensure that Delhi Capitals eventually ended up at 7-156.

 

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