IPL 2023: Mumbai opened the account of victory, beat Delhi by 6 wickets, Rohit Sharma played the captaincy innings

In the 16th match of IPL 2023, Mumbai Indians have opened their account of victory. Mumbai Indians have defeated Delhi Capitals by 6 wickets in a one-sided match. Batting first after losing the toss, the Delhi Capitals team was able to score 172 runs. Chasing the target of 173 runs, Mumbai Indians got off to a great start. There was a 71-run partnership between Ishaan Kishan and Rohit Sharma. Captain Rohit Sharma played a brilliant inning. He scored 65 runs in 45 balls which included 6 fours and 6 sixes. Ishaan Kishan got out on the score of 31 runs. Apart from this, Tilak Verma also batted brilliantly. After the dismissal of Rohit Sharma, the Delhi bowlers made a tremendous comeback and the match went till the last ball. Akshar Patel and Lalit Yadav definitely troubled the Mumbai batsmen. This is Mumbai’s first win in the third match, while Delhi have faced defeat in all their four matches so far.

 

Despite contrasting half-centuries from Akshar Patel and captain David Warner, Delhi Capitals were bundled out for 172 against Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League. Apart from playing an innings of 54 runs in 25 balls with five sixes and four fours, Akshar shared a 67-run partnership for the sixth wicket with David Warner (51 runs in 47 balls, six fours), but despite this the team returned to the pavilion in 19.4 overs. Went. Apart from these two, no Delhi batsman could even touch the figure of 30 runs. For Mumbai, experienced leg-spinner Piyush Chawla bowled brilliantly, taking three wickets for 22 runs, while Jason Behrendorff took three wickets for 23 runs, playing well with him. Riley Meredith (2/34) also took two wickets. Mumbai captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bowl first. Prithvi Shaw (15) fails again. He opened the account with a four off Jason Behrendorff and then welcomed Hrithik Shokin (one for 43) with a four but in an attempt to sweep the off-spinner, he was caught by Cameron Green at backward square leg. Captain David Warner, who is in good form, hit Green while Manish Pandey hit two fours each on Riley Meredith and Hrithik. Delhi scored 51 runs for one wicket in the power play.

 

Pandey got lucky with a few boundaries while Warner once again defied his reputation of slow batting. Pandey (26 off 18 balls) was then caught by Behrendorff at the long-off boundary in an attempt to play a big shot off Piyush Chawla. Yash Dhull also scored just two runs in four balls in the next over, caught by Meredith off Nihal Wadhera, while Chawla trapped Rovman Powell (04) leg-before, reducing Delhi’s score from 76 for one to 86 for four. Did. Warner was also lucky in the next over when Chawla dropped a catch at mid-off off Green on a personal score of 37 runs. Chawla, however, made up for the dropped catch by bowling Lalit Yadav (02). Warner completed the team’s century in the 13th over with a four on Chawla. Akshar Patel hit Hrithik over extra cover for the first six of the innings in the 15th over and then took the next ball across the boundary. Warner completed his third half-century in four matches in 43 balls with one run off Green. Akshar also hit two fours in this over. Akshar hit Behrendorff for two consecutive sixes in the next over. However, he got lucky on the second six when Suryakumar Yadav dropped his catch at long-on and the ball went for six runs.