Hardik Pandya returned to form with his best performance of IPL 2024. Rohit Sharma did this. cricket news

Hardik Pandya showed great form ahead of the T20 World Cup, while experienced Piyush Chawla also took three wickets as Mumbai Indians restricted Sunrisers Hyderabad to 173/8 in an IPL clash here on Monday. Pandya found rhythm and pace and returned 4-0-31-3, while Chawla (4-0-33-3) produced an impressive performance to trouble the SRH batsmen. This was Pandya’s fourth best bowling figures in the IPL. Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma was happy to see the progress of his numbers. 1 all-rounder.

To add to Pandya’s happiness, MI won the match by 7 wickets thanks to an unbeaten century from Suryakumar Yadav.

Hardik Pandya took 7 wickets in the last 3 matches #MIvsSRH pic.twitter.com/XnJMAwURIZ

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Hardik Pandya with headband
4 wickets in 7 matches

Hardik Pandya without headband
7 wickets in 3 matches pic.twitter.com/RADajmxTnf

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However, to their credit, SRH skipper Pat Cummins scored 35 off 17 balls (2x4s, 2x6s) at the end of the innings to take them past 150.

Unlike the last time these teams met earlier in this IPL, when SRH scored 277/3, their usually free-flowing batsmen struggled for pace and a lack of initiative meant they never got going. Could not trouble Mumbai bowlers.

The batsmen struggled on the two-paced surface and MI were quick to take advantage of this.

The visitors got 56 runs without loss in the powerplay, but lack of initiative and regular fall of wickets stopped the flow of runs.

Chawla, who came to bowl in the second half of the innings, made the biggest impact by taking the crucial wickets of Travis Head (48) and Heinrich Klaasen (2) and put Mumbai Indians in complete control.

Head, who rode his luck throughout his tenure in the middle, could not take full advantage of it.

With two inside edges for boundaries early on, SRH’s key batsmen looked to struggle for timing and rhythm.

In the fourth over, at the score of 24, Head made room to dismiss MI debutant Ankush Kamboj and lost his off-stump in the process, but then he got his first lifeline as the bowler was found to have overstepped.

Head got another lease of life when Nuwan Thushara gave a regulation chance to deep third man in the eighth over when the opener was on 44 runs, but by then SRH’s collapse had started.

Abhishek Sharma (11 off 16 balls) was caught behind the wicket by Bumrah and Mayank Agarwal (5) became the first victim of Kamboj.

Nitish Kumar Reddy (20) was dismissed by Pandya, who later also took the wicket of Shahbaz Ahmed (10) in what was a complete flop show with the bat for SRH.