SRH v MI: Not too bummed, says Aiden Markram as Mumbai snap Hyderabad’s worthwhile momentum

By India Today Sports Desk: SunRisers Hyderabad captain Aiden Markram carried out down the have an effect on of their defeat to Mumbai Indians in an IPL 2023 match at dwelling on Tuesday, April 18. It was the third defeat for the earlier champions in 5 matches inside the new season and they also had been denied a hat-trick of wins by Mumbai Indians, who extended their worthwhile run after a sluggish start.

SunRisers gained the toss and opted to bowl nonetheless a quickfire 28 from Rohit Sharma and a well-paced fifty from Cameron Green and a 17-ball 37-run blitz from Tilak Varma helped Mumbai Indians put up an above-par entire of 192 on a sluggish pitch in Hyderabad. Bhuvneshwar Kumar picked up a wicket for merely 31 runs in 4 overs whereas Marco Jansen chipped in with 2 wickets on a night the place all the alternative SRH bowlers had been expensive. Death overs specialist T Natarajan gave away 50 runs in his 4-over quota as Green and Tilak switched gears effortlessly.

Chasing 193, SRH had been diminished to 25 for 2 after Jason Behrendorff acquired the huge wicket of ultimate match’s centurion JHarry Brook for 9. Rahul Tripathi moreover fell to the left-arm pacer nonetheless Mayank Agarwal (48) and captain Markram (22) stitched a 46-run stand, which was ended by Cameron Green.

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Barring Heinrich Klaasen’s 16-ball 36, there was no predominant contribution from SRH’s middle-order as MI defended the objective with ease finally.

“There was a desperation to make things right from the previous season. Not too bummed, there are areas we can improve on and we will look to do that to give us a good chance to win the next game,” he added.

SRH gained momentum after a poor start as they gained their closing two matches and had the good thing about worthwhile the toss on Tuesday. However, Markram and his males faltered at dwelling.

The SRH captain defended his title on the toss and credited the workers for taking the game deep.

“All in all we were not at our best tonight. Credit to the boys for taking it deep. We could have done with conceding fewer runs towards the end. It (pitch) stayed pretty much the same throughout the night, on the slower side, not bad at all. Whenever we took pace off the ball did not come on to the bat.

“We made a reputation to bowl first sooner than the toss and if the dew acquired right here in then we had been inside the recreation,” Markram talked about.

SRH, who slipped to the ninth spot, will subsequent face Chennai Super Kings on April 21 in Chennai.