DUBAI (UAE): Mumbai consolidated their position after they beat Delhi by nine wickets in Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 on Saturday.
The win helped them move at the top with 18 points.
After Jasprit Bumrah and Trent Boult, who picked three wickets each, restricted DC to 110/9, Ishan Kishan slammed an unbeaten 72 as Mumbai sealed a huge win to confirm a top-two finish.
In the chase, Mumbai made a watchful start, scoring 10 runs in the first three overs. Kishan and de Kock though teamed up to hit three fours in the fourth over before Kishan added two more fours to his account as Mumbai moved to 38/0 after 6 overs.
Brief Scores: Mumbai 111/1 (Ishan Kishan 72*, Quinton de Kock 26; Anrich Nortje 1/25) beat Delhi 110/9 (Shreyas Iyer 25, Rishabh Pant 21; Jasprit Bumrah 3/17, Trent Boult 3/21) by nine wickets
The pair completed a fifty-run partnership in the ninth over before MI moved to 68/0 at the halfway stage of the chase.
But Delhi managed to break the opening stand after Nortje got de Kock out for 26 in the 11th over.
Kishan then brought up his third half-century of the season and 6th overall in the tournament.
Earlier, MI, who elected to bowl after Kieron Pollard won the toss, made two changes to their team as Jayant Yadav and Nathan Coulter-Nile replaced Hardik Pandya and James Pattinson. Meanwhile, for DC, Prithvi Shaw and Harshal Patel returned to the team while Pravin Dubey made his debut.
MI struck in the first over as Trent Boult dismissed Shikhar Dhawan for zero after Suryakumar Yadav took a good low catch. The left-arm pacer picked his second wicket in his second over as Quinton de Kock held on to a skyer as DC lost Prithvi Shaw.
MI kept things extremely tight and limited DC to 22/2 at the end of the powerplay. (Source: IPL20)
