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Nicholas Pooran returned to form with a blazing 21-ball 63, and set the tone for LSG's massive 228 for 5. However, with their bowlers repeatedly erring in lengths on a surface that had little mercy for pacers, Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickelton turned it into a one-sided contest with a 143-run opening stand off only 65 balls to ensure MI crossed the line with eight balls to spare and six wickets in hand - their first win at the Wankhede this season. It was the highest total chased down by MI, and the sixth-highest ever by any team in the IPL.
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@B2$ Lucknow Super Giants 228/5 in 20 overs [Nicholas Pooran 63 (21), Mitchell Marsh 44 (25); Corbin Bosch 2-20, Raghu Sharma 1-36) lost to Mumbai Indians 229/4 in 18.4 overs [Ryan Rickelton 83 (32), Rohit Sharma 84 (44); Manimaran Siddharth 2-47) by 6 wickets
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While in some ways, it would be easy to pin the credit on the opening pair of Ryan Rickelton and Rohit Sharma for their blazing 143-run stand, which set up MI's win, the contribution of the bowlers in two specific phases - middle (overs 12-15) and death (overs 17-20), would be hard to overlook. In those seven overs combined (two each bowled by Jasprit Bumrah, Raghu Sharma and Deepak Chahar, and one by Ghazanfar), they conceded only 42 runs - which proved to be a big difference-maker in a contest where nearly 460 runs were scored.
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Both teams came into the match with several changes to the side, most notably for Mumbai Indians it was the return of former captain Rohit Sharma, who recovered from his injury. However, they were without the services of their skipper Hardik Pandya, who was ruled out due to a back spasm.
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The much talked-about appearance of Josh Inglis finally happened in IPL 2026 when he was picked for his first game of the season. Opening the batting with Mitchell Marsh, he made an immediate impact, crunching three boundaries in four balls, but miscued a carrom ball off AM Ghazanfar to get dismissed early.
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The out-of-form Nicholas Pooran left behind his rustiness, and joined the act soon, ensuring that the early fall of Inglis didn't derail the early momentum. Will Jacks' offspin was not effective enough, especially when he slowed down the pace, allowing the southpaw to crunch three sixes. He carried forward the momentum even against Ghazanfar in the next over as the spinner was taken apart for 19 runs.
Marsh, at the other end, ensured that the pace didn't drop. He had already smoked Jasprit Bumrah's slower delivery for a six down the ground, before muscling two more boundaries. Bumrah's two overs in the Powerplay ended up leaking 31 runs as LSG picked up 90 from the first six overs - the most they have scored in the IPL.
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LSG seemed in no mood to slow down even after the field restrictions had been lifted, smoking their 10th six of the innings midway through the eighth over. However, Corbin Bosch provided the break. Pooran was rushed into a pull and got an edge to the 'keeper and Marsh nailed a pull straight to the fielder at deep midwicket. Both the set batters were sent back in the same over, but their breezy 94-run alliance set the stage for a massive total.
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Not immediately. In back-to-back overs after the dismissal of the duo, LSG picked 14 runs each. However, once Akshat Raghuwanshi too was sent back, for a brief period, the momentum was sucked out of their innings, by Ghazanfar, Bumrah and Raghu Sharma. The trio conceded only 20 runs in four overs.
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Definitely. Bumrah had Himmat Singh nicking to the 'keeper, only to realise he had overstepped. It's been a concern that has plagued his bowling for a good part of this season. It was one of the three times he overstepped in the innings, taking his tally for the season up to seven - more than twice that of the next highest.
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For a while, it seemed that it would. Himmat, who was batting on 2 off 4 then, had added 21 more off the next 12 deliveries, clubbing Ghazanfar and Raghu for sixes in the following overs. However, Deepak Chahar and Bumrah resorted to yorkers in the last three overs as Himmat and Aiden Markram struggled to find a strong response to those deliveries, picking up only 23 runs off the last 20 balls of the innings, with only one of those deliveries heading for the fence.
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Rohit took time to get going, but there weren't too many signs of rustiness. After a few confident punches, his first boundary came off an edge. The first authoritative shot came in the third over when he picked up Mohammed Shami's delivery for a six over deep midwicket. While Rickelton had already raced away to 30 off 12 balls, Rohit's attack started in the last over of the Powerplay, when he took Avesh Khan apart for two boundaries and as many sixes off successive deliveries.
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Not at all. If anything, they shifted to a higher gear.
Even as Mumbai Indians were significantly slower than LSG in the Powerplay, the openers ensured that for all the while they were in the middle, they kept pace with the required rate, and took advantage of the flat surface. Rohit, especially, took advantage of the repeated yorkers reaching as low full-tosses to him. He clubbed seven sixes in his innings, the most he ever has in IPL.
In a space of three deliveries, both Rickelton and Rohit brought up their respective half-centuries, with the latter reaching the mark by launching Manimaran Siddharth over long on for a six. The duo plundered 143 runs before Rickelton hit one straight to Inglis at extra cover off the penultimate ball of the 11th over.
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Not at all. A flurry of full tosses continued to be dished out, and Rohit had found vintage rhythm, as he plundered 34 more (in the company of Tilak Varma) in the next three overs before top-edging a sweep to short fine leg, and ending his innings 16 short of a century. His knock of 84 was the highest posted by an MI batter against LSG.
By then, the requirement had dropped to 52 runs in six overs, with eight wickets in hand. With victory in sight, and the ball coming on easily to the bat, Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak attempted to measure the attack. While both of them departed in their bid to hit big and the scoring rate was curbed, victory was inevitable. Will Jacks and Naman Dhir, teasing some late hope for LSG, took the side over the line.
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Despite the big win, MI continue to languish at 9th on the points table, while LSG, with only two wins in nine games, are still looking for a way out of the last spot.
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Both teams are set to come up against the same opposition next. While LSG will head home to face RCB on Thursday [May 7], Mumbai Indians will enjoy a long break before facing RCB in their new 'home' ground in Raipur on Sunday [May 10].
