MI vs SRH Live Score: SRH 130/0 in 13 Overs – Vivrant, Mayank fifties drive Sunrisers

Mayank Agarwal hits his first half-century of the season and he will be pleased with his effort with the bat after blowing hot and cold this season. A six over the covers followed by a boundary off Behrendroff helped Mayank reach the landmark. Both batsmen are going great guns with Vivrant depositing Behrendroff for a huge maximum over the deep mid-wicket.

Rohit leads by example by putting a full-fledged dive and stopping a certain boundary but Vivrant deposited Chawla to the long-off region. Mayank is now approaching towards his half-century.

This is getting tougher for Mumbai as the breakthrough hasn’t yet come with Vivrant taking on Kartikeya for a boundary over the short fine leg. The surface has always supported batsmen but in a must-win tie, Mumbai needed early wickets. The 100-run partnership is up between Mayank and Vivrant.

What a knock Vivrant is playing as he pockets two boundaries – the first a brilliant shot through the mid-wicket and the second off an inside edge. The SRH opener gets to his maiden IPL half-century in 36 balls with a single to the point region.

Kartikeya continues and gives Mumbai a bit of control by giving just five runs and going by the current run-rate, SRH is poised to post a score around 220.

There is no stopping Vivrant as the southpaw smokes Chawla over the deep mid-wicket for an 82-metre maximum and that’s a brilliant shot. This is a fine start from Sunrisers as both teams take a time-out break.

Kumar Kartikeya into the attack and Mayank pockets a boundary as Mumbai struggles to break the opening stand. There is turn and bounce as the spinner induced an outside edge but it was a tough chance for Behrendroff at short third man. Runs continue to flow freely for Sunrisers.

Akash Madhwal into the attack and Mumbai has missed a run-out chance and Mayank was nowhere in the scene. There was an opportunity to make a breakthrough but Mumbai failed to capitalise on it. Mayank then ended the over with a glorious shot through the covers for a brilliant boundary.

Chris Jordan into the attack and Vivrant welcomes the bowler with back-to-back boundaries smashing a length delivery through the backward point and then danced down the track to smash over the covers. This is good positive batting from the Sunrisers opener.

Behrendroff struggling a bit with his line as he bowls a couple of consecutive wides and Mayank gets going with a boundary to the long-off region. The opener then timed the ball brilliantly through the covers for another boundary. 12 runs from Behrendroff’s second over.

Cameron Green into the attack and Mayank was almost back in the hut but managed to get his bat inside the crease just in time and survived a direct hit.

Vivrant Sharma starts in an attacking fashion as the opener skipped down the track and slapped Behrendroff over the covers for a brilliant boundary. The bowler, however, does well to come back strongly and finish the over well.

Right then Rohit Sharma is cool and collected as the Mumbai skipper delivers a pep talk to lift his side ahead of a must-win encounter. For Hyderabad, it’s Vivrant Sharma along with Mayank Agarwal as Sunrisers have put a record seventh new opening pair in this edition. With the ball, it will be Jason Behrendroff who will start proceedings.

Mayank Markande, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Akeal Hosein, Abdul Samad

Ramandeep Singh, Vishnu Vinod. Tristan Stubbs, Tilak Varma, Sandeep Warrier

Mayank Agarwal, Vivrant Sharma, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Harry Brook, Nitish Reddy, Glenn Phillips, Sanvir Singh, Mayank Dagar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik

Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan(w), Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Chris Jordan, Piyush Chawla, Jason Behrendorff, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal

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