Mumbai Indians have kept their playoff hopes alive by defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad. The Mumbai Indians had a target of 201 runs to win. Building on brilliant batting from Cameron Green and Rohit Sharma, the Mumbai Indians won the match by scoring 201 runs for 2 wickets in 18 overs. Cameron Green played a brilliant innings century. Cameron Green scored an unbeaten 100 on 47 balls. He hit 8 fours and 8 sixes in his innings. While Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma scored 56 runs off 37 balls. At the same time, Suryakumar Yadav returned unbeaten after scoring 25 runs off 16 balls.
Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma spoke after the win against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Rohit Sharma said that we had landed on the pitch strategically. We just wanted to win, we didn’t care about other things. He said that you can do what is in your control, but you can only pray for things that are not in your control… Before this match, I didn’t talk to any player on my team. I think if we don’t progress further in the tournament, I’ll take responsibility, but if we make it to the next round of the tournament, everyone will get equal credit.
Rohit Sharma joked that last year we helped RCB reach the playoffs, this time we hope RCB will do something for us… He said that the beginning of this season was very bad for us, but then we won 3 games in a row. Apart from this, we missed a lot of important opportunities, so we had to bear the brunt. Rohit Sharma talked about the match against Punjab Kings and Lucknow Super Giants. The Mumbai Indians captain said that we should have won the game from the position we were in in the game against Lucknow Super Giants.