• Green hundred takes Mumbai past Hyderabad

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    Australia’s Cameron Green hit his first T20 century to lead the Mumbai Indians to a crushing eight-wicket win over the Sunrisers Hyderabad.

    Green made an unbeaten 100 off 47 balls and put on a key stand of 128 with captain Rohit Sharma (56) as Mumbai achieved their victory target of 201 with two overs to spare at the Wankhede Stadium, their home ground.

    Mumbai, five-time winners of the IPL, now await the result of the second match of the day between the Royal Challengers Bangalore and holders Gujarat Titans to see if they can clinch the last remaining playoff spot.

    The result eliminated the Rajasthan Royals from the playoff race while Bangalore, led by Faf du Plessis, remain in contention.

    Bangalore need a win to make the next round, but a loss would allow Mumbai to go through.

    Table-toppers Gujarat and the second-placed Chennai Super Kings will clash in the first qualifier next week. The Lucknow Super Giants, who became the third team to book their playoff berth, await their opponent in the eliminator.

    The winner of Qualifier 1 will head straight to the final in Ahmedabad on 28 May and the loser will play the winner of the eliminator.

    Green, a big buy for Mumbai for $2.11-million in the auction, stood out on Sunday with eight fours and eight sixes.

    After Rohit’s departure, Green kept up the charge and put on an unbeaten partnership with Suryakumar Yadav, who hit 25, to register their eighth win in 14 league matches.

    Medium-pace bowler Akash Madhwal set up victory with figures of 4-37 to check Hyderabad to 200-5, a total that looked to go bigger but for some disciplined bowling.

    Openers Mayank Agarwal (83) and Vivrant Sharma (69) put on 140 runs to lay the foundations for the total, which proved insufficient.

    The departure of Sharma and then Agarwal made Hyderabad slide with the rest of the batting falling apart.

    Heinrich Klaasen scored 18 off 13 balls before being bowled by Glenn Phillips and captain Aiden Markram 13* off seven.

    Hyderabad took the wooden spoon in the 10-team table.

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