Where was the match won?
The match was flawlessly balanced in the pursuit with 71 required off last seven overs. Mumbai had quite recently recuperated from a small scale wobble where they had lost Nitish Rana and Jos Buttler (26) with hardly a pause in between. With concerns mounting over Rohit Sharma's shape, this was his opportunity to direct the group home. Rohit played sensible innings of an unbeaten 29-ball 40 while Pollard crushed his approach to 39 off 23 to make a simple section to the win.
Lions had been put under weight all through the amusement yet did well to ingest it and battle their way through. Be that as it may, Mumbai Indians bossed the last seven overs to grab the win.
Rana bobs back with vital runs
Nitish Rana has been the find of the IPL 2017 up until now. Two half-hundreds of years in the competition has helped him turn into the most elevated pursue getter 16 recreations this season. After the disappointment against Royal Challengers Bangalore, Rana gave Mumbai the ideal stage to dispatch a strike at last.Rana strolled in the first over after Praveen Kumar rejected Parthiv Patel for a duck. He was dropped by Jason Roy, when on 9, off the rocking the bowling alley of Basil Thampi. The score was 11 for 1 at that stage. When Rana was expelled in the tenth over, the score had swelled to 85, with Rana adding to 53 off those.
The panache of McCullum, the class of Karthik
On a dry Wankhede surface, Lions had lost Dwayne Smith right on time subsequent to being made a request to bat. Both Brendon McCullum and Suresh Raina thought that it was difficult to move as Mumbai made a decent begin with the ball. That is the point at which McCullum's strength went to the fore. While Raina kept on chugging along, McCullum gathered the urgent limits to take the score to 46 for 1 toward the finish of the powerplay. It was then that the previous New Zealand skipper gave the inning the truly necessary catalyst even as he lost Raina from the flip side.He went up against Harbhajan Singh and Lasith Malinga while Ishan Kishan, who strolled in at No. 4, battled against some quality knocking down some pins. McCullum stroked a 44-ball 64 preceding he was knocked down some pins by Lasith Malinga in the fourteenth over.
The scorecard at that stage read 99 for 3 and there was a lot of work left to be done considering the pursuing abilities of Mumbai. Dinesh Karthik has been uncommon for the establishment up until now and continued with his great frame, crushing an unbeaten 26-ball 48. What emerged from Karthik was that he could take keeps running off the rocking the bowling alley of Jasprit Bumrah and Malinga, driving the group to an exceptionally focused aggregate.
Indeed, even the best go all the way
Malinga yielded 51 runs, the most he has given away in any IPL games, from his four overs for his one wicket while Bumrah spilled 45 keeps running from his four overs. That is 96 keeps running from eight overs from bowlers who are usual to rocking the bowling alley at the demise and have done it significantly well. This additionally highlights how critical Karthik's exertion was as he helped the group gather 41 keeps running in the last three overs.