Abhishek – No six for Head, no win for Hyderabad

 In the six matches played before today's match against Mumbai, Abhishek Sharma hit 10 sixes, Travis Head 9. Head hit his nine sixes in three matches, three each. Sunrisers Hyderabad won two of these matches. Abhishek hit 10 sixes in the same match, Head hit three sixes in that match; this is one of the two matches that Hyderabad won.

Head hit three sixes, but Hyderabad could not win, there was one such match in this IPL. Abhishek did not hit a six again in that match. Today, neither Head nor Abhishek have hit a six, Hyderabad also did not win. They lost to Mumbai by 4 wickets. This is the fifth defeat for the star-studded team in seven matches. Mumbai won the match with 11 balls to spare.After losing the toss at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, Hyderabad could only manage 162 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. Opener Abhishek scored the team's highest 40 runs off 28 balls. Although he did not hit any sixes, his innings included seven fours. Head scored 28 runs off 29 balls with three fours. Batting at number five, Heinrich Klaasen scored 37 runs off 28 balls with three fours and two sixes. Aniket Verma scored an unbeaten 18 runs off 8 balls with two sixes.

Despite being overwhelmed by Mumbai's slower and yorker deliveries, Hyderabad managed to score 162 runs in the end, thanks to the 18th and 20th overs of the innings. They scored 21 runs in two overs. The five sixes that Hyderabad hit in the innings were also in this period. Four of these five sixes were by Klaasen and Aniket, and one by Pat Cummins. Deepak Chahar and Hardik Pandya each bowled two overs.

Chasing the run chase, Mumbai got off to a great start with Rohit Sharma's innings of 26 runs off 16 balls with three sixes. Another opener Ryan Rickelton scored 31 runs off 23 balls with five fours. Then, Will Jacks (36 off 26 balls), Suryakumar Yadav (26 off 15 balls), Tilak Verma (21* off 17 balls) and Pandya (21 off 9 balls) scored runs to take Mumbai out of the field with an easy win. This is Mumbai's third win in seven matches.

'Super Delhi' in the Super Over, Stubbs ends the match with a six

 

Delhi Capitals needed 12 runs in the Super Over to win. Rajasthan Royals' Sandeep Sharma with the ball, Lokesh Rahul on strike. 2 came off the first ball, 4 on the next ball. Half the runs in the first two balls of the over meant that the pressure had eased a lot. Tristan Stubbs took a strike in the fourth ball after Rahul took a single in the third ball.

The South African batsman took no time at all. He pulled Sandeep's slower delivery outside the off-stump and blew it into the mid-wicket gallery. Delhi Capitals won the Super Over with a show of strength.

It is now common for Delhi to win when a match goes to the Super Over. Before today, 14 IPL matches have gone to the Super Over. Delhi Capitals had won all three of their matches. That trend continued in their fourth Super Over today (Delhi Daredevils played and lost once).

Today, in the match at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi Capitals took the game to the Super Over courtesy of Mitchell Starc. Batting first, Delhi scored 188 runs for 5 wickets.

Rajasthan needed 9 runs in the last over to chase. Starc conceded 6 runs off the first four balls while bowling. However, he tied the match by trapping Shimron Hetmyer and Dhruv Jurel for 1 run on the fifth ball and Dhruv Jurel for 1 run on the sixth ball.

Then the game went to the Super Over, where Starc gave away 11 runs with the ball. Rajasthan remained at 5 balls with two consecutive run outs. After that, Rahul and Stubbs batted well off the ball of Sandeep in the chase.

Delhi Capitals have climbed to the top of the points table with the victory in the Super Over against Rajasthan. The team has 10 points from six matches. Second-placed Gujarat Titans have 8 points from 6 matches. Rajasthan Royals are at number seven with 4 points from 7 matches.