Mumbai Indians (MI) veteran player Piyush Chawla looked his best in the 55th match of the Indian Premier League 2024 (IPL 2024) against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Monday 6 of May.
Piyush Chawla picked up three more important wickets in the innings as he dismissed Travis Head, Heinrich Klaasen and Abdul Samad, the three batsmen who have been winning matches for Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the current edition of the Indian Premier (IPL).
The best of the three wickets picked by Piyush Chawla was that of Heinrich Klaasen as he rattled the South African batsman’s stumps. Notably, Piyush Chawla is enjoying great success against Heinrich Klaasen in the IPL as in 4 innings he dismissed the batsman twice and gave up just 29 runs.
On the first ball of the 13th over, Piyush Chawla bowled a 91.9 km/h delivery over the stumps and Klaasen gave a fine effort. The batsman only managed to get an inside edge and saw his stumps shake. After dismissing the batsman, Piyush Chawla looked quite emotional and was seen saying an abusive word: Behe****d.
It doesn’t hold much because there is a lot of dew – Piyush Chawla
Speaking during the mid-innings break, Piyush Chawla said that a lot of dew had come in the first innings. Chawla added that he came up with the idea of how long to bowl after playing a few matches. Piyush Chawl elaborated:
“It’s not very grippy because a lot of dew has already entered. For the seamers, there is a lot of help. This season, the batsmen try it if they see the ball a little raised, even if they are new to the crease. – In the first matches I didn’t like it. I realized, but later it occurred to me that the length of the bowling will not be that easy, we will still have to bat well. No, for the spinners there is hardly anything on this wicket.
In the end, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) ended their innings with a score of 173/8. The two performers in the batting department for SRH were Travis Head (48) and Pat Cummins (35).
Notably, this is the second time these two teams have faced each other in the current edition of the competition. The first clash between the teams was an all-scoring match where SRH emerged victorious by 31 runs on March 27.
Since that match, Sunrisers Hyderabad have put up great performances, but Mumbai Indians have gone from bad to worse and are on the verge of being eliminated from the playoff race.
Sunrisers Hyderabad (playing XI): Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Mayank Agarwal, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (w), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Marco Jansen, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan.
Mumbai Indians (playing XI): Ishan Kishan (w), Rohit Sharma, Naman Dhir, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya (c), Tim David, Anshul Kamboj, Piyush Chawla, Jasprit Bumrah, Nuwan Untilhara.