IPL 2021: Defending champions Mumbai Indians fail to make play-offs

MI opener Ishan Kishan en route his 84 against SRH; Suryakumar Yadav (right) slams one during his 40-ball 82. Pics/BCCI, IPL

Defending champions Mumbai Indians beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 42 runs in a high-scoring game here on Friday but their spirited effort was not enough to take them to the IPL play-offs.

After amassing 235 for nine, MI needed to limit SRH to 65 or less to qualify for the play-offs ahead of KKR, but expectedly that did not happen. SRH ended with 193 for eight with stand in captain Manish Pandey making an unbeaten 69 off 41 balls.

It is for the first time in three seasons that five-time champions MI have not entered the Last Four after lifting the trophy in the past two editions.

MI needed a miracle and the script unfolded in their favour, at least in the first innings, when they opted to bat and posted a mammoth score.

Ishan Kishan (84 off 32) and Suryakumar Yadav (82 off 40) struck whirlwind fifties as MI meant business from the onset.

But it was not to be for MI as they failed to restrict SRH to their desired target, even though they won the match comfortably.

Even though MI and KKR ended their round-robin engagements on 14 points from as many games, the Kolkata outfit leapfrogged Rohit Sharma's side on net run rate.

Chasing 236, Jason Roy (34 off 21) and Abhishek Sharma (33 off 16) got SRH off to a flier, stitching 64 runs in 5.2 overs.

But SRH lost their plot soon after the dismissal of the openers with Jimmy Neesham striking twice - first accounting for Sharma and then Abdul Samad. Pandey (69 off 41; 7x4s, 2x6s) and Priyan Garg (29) shared 56 runs for the fifth wicket before Jasprit Bumrah dislodged the stand.

Pandey played a captain's knock and kept SRH in the hunt, albeit mathematically, reaching his 50 off 30 balls. It was going to be an uphill task for SRH to get 70 off 24 balls and it turned out to be so with Pandey remaining unbeaten.

Brief scores
MI 235-9 (I Kishan 84, S Yadav 82; J Holder 4-52) beat SRH 193-8 (M Pandey 69', J Roy 34; J Neesham 2-28) by 42 runs

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