Left-arm pacer Arjun Tendulkar held his nerves underneath stress and ensured that Mumbai Indians (MI) received their recreation in opposition to the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Tuesday (April 18).
Defending 20 runs within the closing over, Tendulkar gave away simply 5 runs and nailed nearly all of his yorkers to perfection. The likes of Abdul Samad and Bhuvneshwar Kumar simply could not get underneath the ball and the latter additionally turned Tendulkar’s first IPL wicket.
Followers on Twitter had been thrilled to see Arjun Tendulkar make an influence within the closing over and a few even congratulated his father, the nice Sachin Tendulkar, for the way in which his son carried out underneath stress. Listed here are among the reactions:
Arjun Tendulkar, Riley Meredith, and Cameron Inexperienced caught to the plan of yorkers
MI obtained off to an incredible begin within the powerplay as they managed to dismiss each Harry Brook and Rahul Tripathi early on. Whereas the likes of Aiden Markram threatened to take the sport away from the guests, they saved chipping away with wickets at common intervals.
The match appeared to show in Piyush Chawla’s final over as Heinrich Klaasen smashed him for 20 runs in 4 balls. Nevertheless, the wicketkeeper tried one shot too many and was dismissed on the final ball of the over.
Extra right-handers meant that Rohit Sharma merely could not introduce Hrithik Shokeen again into the assault and that meant that he needed to depend on all-rounder Cameron Inexperienced and Arjun Tendulkar on the dying alongside Riley Meredith.
Whereas there was inexperience within the MI bowling assault, the bowlers caught to the straightforward plan of bowling yorkers. Rohit Sharma set the sphere accordingly and every bowler did his job of guaranteeing SRH do not get nearly any freebies to cope with.
MI managed to bowl out SRH for 178 and this victory will increase their confidence because it got here within the absence of each Jasprit Bumrah and Jofra Archer.