All-round Mumbai register second successive home win

Mumbai Indians beat Sunrisers Hyderabad to register their second successive win at the Wankhede Stadium to move to the third spot in the points table on Wednesday (April 13). Led by Jasprit Bumrah's three wicket haul and quickfire knocks from the southpaw trio of Parthiv Patel, Nitish Rana and Krunal Pandya Mumbai Indians were able to overcome a surprisingly lacklustre Sunrisers Hyderabad team in their home ground.

Where did Sunrisers Hyderabad lose?

Shikhar Dhawan's scratchy innings at the top order didn't allow Sunrisers Hyderabad to accelerate well. Once David Warner departed in the 11th over after scoring a breezy 49, Mumbai Indians kept striking at regular intervals. Dhawan (48 off 43) consuming a lot of deliveries left the other batsmen with little time to get a look in before going for their shots and SRH eventually lost eight wickets in the space of 57 balls.

To add to their woes was some brilliant bowling by Jasprit Bumrah in the death overs as he finished with figures of 3 for 24 from his quota, bowling two in the Powerplay and two in the death, to restrict the visitors to a sub-par 158 for 8 on a batting paradise.

The toss factor:

With a flat track on offer and dew expected to play a part in the second innings, Mumbai Indians elected to field after winning the toss. In six matches since last year, the team batting first hasn't won a single match in Mumbai. The big news at the toss, however, was the return of left-arm pacer Mustafiqur Rahman. With Australia all-rounder Moises Henriques falling ill, it was a direct swap for the foreigners' position. In order to make up for the absence of Henriques's batting skills, Sunrisers Hyderabad included Tamil Nadu all-rounder Vijay Shankar ahead of Bipul Shrama. Mumbai Indians, on the other hand, came in with an unchanged squad.

Powerplay difference:

With two left-handers opening the innings for the tourists - Shikhar Dhawan and David Warner, off-spinner Harbhajan Singh opened the attack. Bumrah and Malinga, who bowled two overs each in the powerplay, pitched it full and didn't allow the batsmen to break free. With a bit of swing to aid them, the Sunrisers openers managed to put on only 34 runs in the first six overs. Scoring at less than run-a-ball in powerplay would have surely suffocated the likes of Warner and Dhawan who like to attack. But, more importantly, no wicket fell, something which allowed them take advantage later in the innings.

On the other hand, the Powerplay overs proved to be far better for the hosts. Led by Parthiv Patel's assault at the top of the order, they mustered 61 runs. In the process, they lost two wickets - Jos Buttler failing to read Ashish Nehra's slower one and getting bowled and Rohit Sharma getting trapped legbefore to Rashid Khan's googly. At 42 for 2 in 5 overs, Sunrisers Hyderabad would have been happy, but Mustafizur Rahman marked his return to cricket by