Twelve balls, 46 runs: Suryakumar and Musheer turn Mumbai's chase into a sprint12 गेंदों में 46 रन: सूर्यकुमार और मुशीर ने मुंबई की जीत को दी तूफानी रफ्तार

Mumbai were 91/2 after eight overs. In the next 12 balls they raced to 137/2, turning a target of 173 into a chase they finished with 41 balls to spare. Suryakumar Yadav finished unbeaten on 60 from 21 balls, and Mumbai beat Hyderabad by seven wickets in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Elite Match 16 at the Jadavpur University Second Campus Ground, Kolkata.

Mumbai finished on 174/3 in 13.1 overs. The chase required 8.65 an over, and they were well ahead of that from the start.

How Mumbai's bowlers kept Hyderabad to 172

Mumbai won the toss and chose to field. Hyderabad were 54/2 after six overs and 71/3 when Abhirath Reddy fell in the ninth over. Maxwell Swaminathan took the key early wickets of Tanmay Agarwal, Tanay Thyagarajan and Kodimela Himateja, and finished with 3 for 23 from four overs.

The middle overs hurt Hyderabad. Between overs seven and 14 they added 63 runs and lost four wickets, and they were 117/6 after 14 overs. Shivam Dube took two wickets, removing Bhavesh Seth and Chama Milind, and Sairaj Patil also took two, Pranav Varma and Ajay Dev Goud. Dube conceded 31 and Sairaj 27. Shardul Thakur and Atharva Ankolekar took one wicket each.

Hyderabad were bowled out for 172 in 20 overs. Abhirath Reddy top-scored with 35 from 24 balls, Kodimela Himateja made 25 from 16, and Chama Milind added 22 from 12. The highest partnership was only 32 runs from 19 balls for the seventh wicket. Ajay Dev Goud's cameo of 12 from 5 balls helped the late total. Extras contributed 8.

The two overs that decided the chase

Mumbai were already 79/1 after the powerplay, against Hyderabad's 54/2, with Angkrish Raghuvanshi's 27 from 13 balls starting things. Hardik Tamore was bowled for 22 at 90/2 in the eighth over, and Mumbai were still well placed at 91/2 after eight overs, needing 82 from 72 balls.

Then came the ninth and tenth overs. Ved Reddy's ninth went for 22, with 6, 2, 6, 0, 4 and 4. Pranav Varma's tenth cost 24, with 1, 6, 4, 6, 6 and 1. Mumbai took 46 runs from 12 balls without losing a wicket, moving from 91/2 to 137/2. The equation fell to 36 from the last 60 balls.

Suryakumar took 22 from six balls against Ved Reddy and 24 from six against Pranav Varma across his innings. His 60 came with six fours and five sixes. He and Musheer Khan added 65 from 23 balls for the third wicket. Musheer made 51 from 24 balls, with six fours and three sixes, before falling at 155/3 in the 12th over with 18 still needed.

Dube then finished it, hitting a six off the first ball of the 14th over and ending on 13 not out from 5 balls, in an unbroken fourth-wicket stand of 19 from 9 balls.

The match in short

Hyderabad's bowlers found little: Ajay Dev Goud took 2 for 41 and Pranav Varma 1 for 30, while Chama Milind went wicketless in 2.1 overs. Mumbai's win was built on tight bowling in the middle overs and one explosive burst, with Suryakumar's 21-ball 60 as its defining knock.