The Sunrisers Hyderabad suffered a 14-run defeat to the Mumbai Indians in the IPL on Tuesday despite the best efforts of their South African contingent.
Australia’s Cameron Green, a big buy for Mumbai after being bought for $2.11-million in the auction, steered the team to 192-5 with an attacking 64 off 40 balls following his promotion to No 3 in Hyderabad.
Aiden Markram-led Hyderabad were bowled out for 178 in 19.5 overs despite a whirlwind 36 off 16 balls by Heinrich Klaasen and Mayank Agarwal’s 48.
Needing 20 in the final over, Mumbai handed the ball to Arjun Tendulkar, son of legendary Sachin Tendulkar, and the left-arm quick bowled a perfect over and got his maiden IPL wicket to seal the match.
A special moment for young Arjun Tendulkar, who gets his first wicket in #TATAIPL and it is his captain Rohit Sharma, who takes the catch of Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Arjun takes the final wicket and @mipaltan win by 14 runs. pic.twitter.com/1jAa2kBm0Z
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But it was the 1.98m-tall Green, who stood out with key partnerships including a stand of 56 off 28 balls with Tilak Varma, who hit a 17-ball 37.
Green struck three successive boundaries to reach his maiden IPL fifty and followed it up with a six and along with fellow Australian Tim David took the total past 190.
Proteas left-arm quick Marco Jansen took two wickets but missed a face-off with his twin brother Duan Jansen, who made his IPL debut for Hyderabad in the previous match but did not make the XI for this game.
Did You Watch – Two stupendous catches by the #SRH Skipper @AidzMarkram ends Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav's stay out there in the middle.#SRHvMI pic.twitter.com/a1sGNjV6r1
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In Hyderabad’s chase, Arjun started with the new ball for Mumbai to bowl two economical overs in his second IPL outing after his debut on Sunday.
But it was Jason Behrendorff’s left-arm pace that got two key wickets including Hyderabad’s England import and previous-match centurion Harry Brook for nine.
Wickets kept tumbling and Green worked with the ball as well when his pace bowling got Markram back in the pavilion for 22 off 17 balls.
Klaasen and Agarwal attempted to raise hopes in their stand of 55 but their departure triggered the final slide for Hyderabad.
#MumbaiIndians are on a rampage.@timdavid8 with two key catches as Klaasen and Mayank Agarwal depart in quick succession.
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Behrendorff and impact player Riley Meredith claimed two wickets each while David took four catches.
