Boult, Rohit Crush Sunrisers, Mumbai Jump to Third Place

A fine all-round performance from Mumbai Indians saw the Hardik Pandya-led side cruise to seven-wicket win

- Rasesh Mandani

MUMBAI: Mumbai Indians discovered a mid-season surge after registering their fourth consecutive win on Wednesday against Sunrisers Hyderabad. By romping home in 15.4 overs on the back of Rohit Sharma's 70 (46b, 8x4, 3x6), their seven-wicket win saw the five-time winners climb to third place on the points table. The reverse was true for SRH, for whom this was their fourth straight defeat leaving them languishing at the ninth place on the points table.

MI bowlers took the flight from Mumbai to Hyderabad without forgetting to carry the pace-off bowling template that saw them down the powerful batters in Orange last week. That's all it took to force SRH into submission on a dry pitch at the Uppal stadium in the crucial Powerplay.

Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan fell to smartly executed slower balls. The floodgates opened when Travis Head came out swinging against Trent Boult and holed out to deep backward point. Nitish Reddy's woes continued as he found no timing and on drove Deepak Chahar straight into the hands of mid-on. None of their top four touched double figures as SRH were reduced to 24/4 after 6 overs.