Mumbai Indians finished the league season from the top of the points list. The four-time IPL champions have shown their dominance in the entire IPL. On the other hand, Delhi Capitals played well at the beginning of the IPL, but at the end of the last four places to beat the dhumkat dhumkat. Today, Rohit Sharma's Mumbai reached the final for the sixth time by defeating Delhi by 57 runs in the qualifier one in Dubai. Despite losing today, Delhi is getting another chance to reach the final. Next Sunday, they will play a qualifier against the winner of the Eliminator.
Trent Bolt and Yashpreet Bumra have taken 46 wickets in this year's IPL. Both are in the top five of the list of best wicket-takers. Bolt has handled the new ball for Mumbai Indians throughout the IPL. Death Over was in charge of Boomer. Mumbai captain Rohit Sharma gave a new ball to both of them in the match against Delhi in the IPL final today.
As a result, Delhi did not have three wickets for zero runs! Prithviraj Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane and Dhawan — none of the top three order batsmen could open the scoring. These three batsmen could not stand in front of the incredible bowling of Bolt-Boomera. Shreyas Iyer came to the crease and added 12 runs. Boomers came in the second over and dismissed him too. Delhi lost 4 wickets for 20 runs to chase Mumbai's 201 runs.
There was no possibility of Delhi winning by fighting from a deep abyss. Marcus Stones and Akshar Patel have tried to run to defend the standard. Stones' 65 and Akshar's 42-run innings helped Delhi to 143 for seven. Mumbai won by a huge margin of 56 runs. Delhi will get one last chance to reach the final against Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore in the first eliminator match.
Earlier, the Mumbai batsmen won the toss and elected to field. Rohit Sharma got out quickly. Also whoever came to the crease, tried to do without the ball boundary. Opener Quinton de Kock led the way. De Cock's violence started from the first over. Before Ravichandran Ashwin was dismissed for 40 off 25 balls with sixes, he seemed to be Delhi's biggest risk.
Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kisan also batted well. Suryakumar held one end to Rohit's farewell. Suryakumar, the incredible series throughout the tournament, still plays the basis of Mumbai today. He was dismissed after playing an eye-catching innings of 51 off 36 balls. After Rohit and De Kock, Ashwin dismissed another Mumbai leader, Pollard, to signal Delhi's return to the match.
But Ishan Kisan and Hardik Pandya together blew away that hope. Kisan made 55 off 30 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes. However, it would have been difficult for Mumbai to score 160 runs if Pandya had not raised a storm in the desert. Hardik hit an unbeaten 36 off just 14 balls at the crease. There were no fours in his innings, there were five sixes. Pandya's deadly batting took Mumbai to 200 runs.