Sunrisers Hyderabad welcomed a wounded Mumbai Indians at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium on Thursday. The men led by Rohit Sharma were raring a hit after having tasted a narrow defeat against Chennai in their opening game. The unfortunate side again suffered the same fate against Mumbai.

The hosting team have had a brilliant start in the tournament with their match against Rajasthan Royals where they outshone the opponents in every department. They edged past the opponents in this game as well, but in a more difficult situation.

Winning the toss, SRH decided to bowl first. Mumbai’s batting was outshone by the clinical bowling attack SRH possesses. They stopped at a sub-par total of 147 runs for 8 wickets.

While Evin Lewis, Suryakumar Yadav, and Krunal Pandya made 20-odd runs each, the rest of the batsmen failed to stand firm in front of SRH’s bowling.

Billy Stanlake, Sandeep Sharma, and Siddharth Kaul bagged 2 wickets each for SRH. Shakib Al Hasan and Rashid Khan also scalped a wicket apiece.

SRH had a brilliant start in batting as well. Their openers shared a 62-run partnership until Mayank Markande trapped Wriddhiman Saha lbw on 22 runs.

The new batsman in—Kane Williamson also couldn’t last long on the pitch as he edged Mustafizur Rahman and got caught behind. Then Markande struck once again to dismiss Shikhar Dhawan who played a crucial innings of 45 from 28 deliveries.

The untested middle-order from the first game struggled to continue the momentum initiated by Dhawan. At one point, SRH's score became 137/9 from 136/5, thanks to two brilliant over from Mustafiz and Bumrah each of whom scalped two wickets in their respective overs. Only four runs were scored off those 12 deliveries with Fizz allowing just a single in the penultimate over.

However, Billy Stanlake conceded 11 runs as Deepak Hooda steered the team to a 1-wicket victory with a brilliant knock of 32 off 25.

Mumbai Indians will take on Delhi Daredevils in their next game on Saturday and Sunrisers Hyderabad will face Kolkata Knight Riders on the same day.

Score:

MI - 147/8 (20.0 Overs)

SRH - 148/9 (20 Overs)