Mumbai Indians Seals Playoff Spot With 59-Run Victory Against Delhi Capitals

Samira Vishwas

Tezzbuzz|22-05-2025

A combined peformance in the batting and bowling department, Mumbai Indians went on to score a 59-Run victory in the IPL 2025 game against Delhi Capitals on May 21 at Wankhede Stadium.

With the victory Mumbai secured the finals playoff spot leaving Delhi Capitals knocked out of the tournament.

Batting first, Ryan Rickelton and Rohit Sharma opened the innings while Mukesh Kumar opened the bowling attack.

Mustafizur Rahim gave a crucial breakthrough, dismissing Rohit Sharma for 5 runs in the 3rd over. With the dismissal of Will Jacks for 21 runs, Mumbai Indians lost 2 wickets for 48 runs.

However, Ryan Rickelton and Suryakumar Yadav went on to score 54 runs in the powerplay. Meanwhile Kuldeep Yadav picked the wicket of Ryan Rickelton for 25 runs.

The Mumbai Indians middle order batters Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Varma aiming to rebuild the innings.

But Tilak Varma lost his wicket to Mukes Kumar for 27 runs. With his dismissal Mumbai Indians were tattering with 113 runs in the 15th over.

With Hardik Pandya went to dug out for 3 runs, Naman Dhir joined Suryakumar Yadav went on take the score to cross 150 run mark. Meanwhile SKY went on to cross 50 run mark.

In the penulitmate over, they went on to score 27 runs which changed the coarse of the innings. In the final over, the duo went on to score 21 runs to post a 180 total in the score board.

Suryakumar Yadav remained unbeaten with 73 runs while Naman Dhir made a cameo knock of 24* runs off 8 deliveries.

In the Pursuit of chasing 181 runs, KL Rahul and Faf du Plessis opened the innings while Trent Bould opened the Bowling attack.

Chahar brought the first breakthrough dismissing Faf du Plessis for 6 runs while, Boult bagged the wicket of KL Rahul for 11 runs. With the dismissal of Abhishek Porel for 6 runs, Delhi lost three wickets for 27 runs.

With Sameer Rizvi and Vipraj Nigam tried to anchor the innings, Santner brought his magical spell to bag the wicket of the duo for 39 and 20 respectively.

He also went on dismiss Ahsutosh Sharma for 18 runs which put Delhi at tough spot with losing seven wickets for 104 runs.

On the other hand, Bumrah bagged the wickets of Tristan Stubbs, Madhav Tiwari and Mustafizur Rahman to make his contribution.

In the 19th over, Delhi Capitals lost all 10 wickets scoring only 121 runs. Bumrah and Santner picked three wickets each while, Trent Boult, Deepak Chahar, Will Jacks and Karn Sharma picked a wicket each to secure a dominant victory for Mumbai Indians at Wankhede Stadium.

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