Chennai Super Kings skipper MS Dhoni has been overtaken by Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma on Saturday to turn into the Indian player with the most number of sixes throughout the entire existence of the Indian Premier League. Rohit Sharma struck two sixes in his 32-run thump against SunRisers Hyderabad taking his sixes count to 217 outperforming MS Dhoni (216). Sharma is in third place in the general rundown behind Chris Gayle (351) and AB de Villers (237). Kieron Pollard equaled RCB captain Virat Kohli for the fifth spot in the general rundown with 201 sixes in the competition in the wake of crushing two sequential sixes to end the innings.
Rohit Sharma won the toss and looking at the pitch decided to bat first. The choice demonstrated helpful as openers (Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock) were looking flying so far. The pair added 55 runs for the initial wicket. Rohit Sharma was out for 32 runs by Vijay Shankar. Quinton de Kock scored 40 runs and was excused by Mujeeb Ur Rahman. Kieron Pollard’s very late firecrackers with the 105m six, which is the greatest this season, helped Mumbai Indians to 150 runs.
Consequently, Sunrisers Hyderabad was looking magnificent so far with the opening batsmen (Jonny Bairstow and David Warner) set up a 67-run association to launch the innings. Jonny Bairstow had an unfortunate wicket as he was hit wicket after scoring a rapid 43 runs.
Mumbai Indians are looking good this season as always, they are still 4th in the position with their losses against RCB.