The Mumbai Indians (MI) climbed to second position in the VIVO IPL 2019 standings after they defeated the Delhi Capitals (DC) by 40 runs at the Feroze Shah Kotla Ground on Thursday night. After their captain Rohit Sharma had won an important toss and elected to bat, the Mumbai posted 168-5 and then restricted DC to 128-9.
Realising that the playing surface was extremely dry and would give the batsmen no pace, the MI opening pair of Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock took toll of the hardness of the new ball and got their team off to a flying start; they added 57 runs in the powerplay. But spin was introduced in the sixth over — in the form of Amit Mishra — and the opening pair was separated; the Delhi leg-spinner breached the defences of Rohit Sharma (30 of 22 balls) with his first ball.
