Mumbai Indians batter Suryakumar Yadav performed a significant knock of unbeaten 73 runs in opposition to Delhi Capitals. Courtesy of his brilliance, Mumbai posted 180 runs within the first innings. If MI win the match, they’ll qualify for playoffs.

Mumbai:

Flamboyant Mumbai Indians batter Suryakumar Yadav continued his stellar kind within the ongoing IPL 2025 with one other spectacular efficiency. Playing in opposition to the Delhi Capitals on the Wankhede Stadium, the 34-year-old smashed an unbeaten 73, guiding his staff to a complete of 180.

With this knock, Suryakumar has now equalled South African cricketer Temba Bavuma’s report for essentially the most consecutive 25+ scores in T20 cricket – each standing at 13. He is adopted by Kyle Mayers, Chris Lynn, Kumar Sangakkara, Jacques Rudolph, and Brad Hodge, who’ve every recorded 11 such consecutive scores.

Notably, Delhi had a terrific begin to the match and at one level, Mumbai appeared to be scoring lower than 150 runs within the first innings. Suryakumar and Tilak Varma have been struggling closely to get going and issues acquired extraordinarily tough for the Mumbai gamers within the center. However, in the direction of the demise overs, Suryakumar and Naman Dhir modified the complexion of the sport, serving to their staff set a defendable whole on the board.

In the ultimate two overs, DC conceded 48 runs. Mukesh Kumar conceded 27 runs within the penultimate over whereas Dushmantha Chameera leaked 21. After the sport, the Mumbai-born famous that the wicket acted sluggish for some time and as a staff, they believed 165 could be a great whole on the board, however he was completely satisfied to surpass that. He additionally famous the significance of endurance, as by taking the sport deep, Suryakumar might ship within the last overs of the innings.

“ This is one innings which I hoped for a really very long time. A tough scenario I’m going into bat and I attempt to bat until the top and get a rating which is perhaps a bit of above par. (Was batting tough?) It was a sluggish wicket with the climate round however we needed to dig deep, we talked about that in our follow periods. We knew that the wicket’s going to be like this, so we deliberate accordingly and that is the identical approach we batted. (On taking part in the ready recreation until the final 2 overs) Waiting provides you a whole lot of truths in life, it felt I used to be good inside. I have never checked the dew until now, however we thought it is a 160-165 wicket, we have 15 runs further, let’s have a look at, good recreation on the palms,” Suryakumar mentioned within the mid-match presentation.