A Suryakumar Yadav knock of two parts, restrained at first before breaking free

The capacity to produce tournament-defining moments has been a hallmark of Mumbai Indians’ IPL supremacy.

- GNS News Agency, May 27

Assured of the knockouts, they would reflect on the last two overs of their innings on a sluggish track, wherein Suryakumar Yadav and Naman Dhir scythed 47 runs off 12 balls to reverse the game's tide irreversibly to their side. Entailed a 59-run cruise, after Jasprit Bumrah and Mitchell Santner tightened the noose on Delhi Capitals’ necks, ending their playoff ambitions.Naman Dhir walks with brisk, purposeful strides, as though the dugout was a prison he had escaped. A largely under-utilised batting all-rounder, he has offered only fits and flashes of his exhilarating stroke-making. But late in the Mumbai Indians’ innings, with the home-side praying for an injection of pace, he strode in with brisk, purposeful strides and rattled out 24 off only eight balls, in the company of Suryakumar Yadav, himself hitting violent riffs at the end, to power Mumbai Indians’ total to 180/5.Until the 19th over of Mukesh Kumar that Naman alone ransacked 20 runs (Suryakumar added seven), batting was a laborious exercise. The ball gripping, turning and holding off the surface, the wrist-spin pair of Kuldeep Yadav and Vipraj Nigam consigning them to a spin-swamp. MI had stuttered to 133 for 7 in 18 overs. Then, just like that, Naman fired his ammunition, transforming the surface to a belter.