Abu Dhabi: Six-time winners Mumbai Indians have reached the final for the sixth time after defeating Delhi Capitals by 59 runs. The experienced Mumbai Indians, who showed strong batting and bowling on Thursday, signaled Delhi to win the match from the first over of both innings. After 200 runs, Delhi lost 3 wickets before opening the account and could not return. He surrendered in 1933. Despite the defeat, the Delhi Capitals will have a second chance to reach the final. They will meet Hyderabad or Bangalore in Qualifiers 4-2 on Sunday. For Tuesday’s final match, however, Rohit Sharma’s team has persevered five days ago. In reply, Mumbai’s two fast bowlers, Etrent Bolt and Yashpreet Bumra, broke the backbone of Delhi. Bolt started the innings with a double-wicket haul in the first over, scoring Prithvi S (0) and Shikhar Dhawan (0). Not far behind, Yashpreet Bumra also sent two Mumbai batsmen, Ajinkya Rahane (0) and Shreyas Ayyar (12), to the pavilion. It was a hard lesson to get out of Delhi’s miserable situation by fighting on 20/7. Some time later it reached 41/5. Marcus Stoinis and Akshar Patel shared 41 runs to show their last hope. Boomera, however, put out two Australian Stoinis and Daniel in the first over of their second spell, extinguishing the last lamp of Delhi. For the seventh time in his IPL career, he has once again reached the top in the Purple Cup, with the honor of taking 2 wickets in one over. As an Indian, Bhuvneshwar Kumar (24) was the top scorer with 24 wickets in a single season. Miraculously, he also got a lucrative bowling figure (6-0-18-4). Earlier, captain Rohit Sharma failed in the second innings. Vice President Kiran Pollard suffered the same fate. Both accounts could not be opened. However, in the first qualifier against the Delhi Capitals, Mumbai held on to a 200-run challenge. Suryakumar Yadav played a half-century in the middle after Quinton D’Cock took advantage of the cut in the power play. By the time of the death over, however, Ishan Kishan and Hardik Pandey had batted explosively to put up a big score. Rohit Sharma was bowled out by Ashwin in his first over. South African left-arm batsman D’Cock scored 60 off 25 balls to become Ashwin’s second victim. Ashwin was bowled out 4-0-24-3 with Kiran Pollard third. Suryakumar Yadav was the victim of Anrikh Narkhiya after completing a half-century off 38 balls. Later, Jharkhand’s young stars Ishan Kishan (55 *, 30 balls) and Hardik Pandya (36 *, 18 balls) scored the same number of runs from Delhi. Mumbai added 55 runs in the last three overs for their explosive batting. They were struck by two South African bowlers, Enrique Narkhia (1/50) and Kagiso Rabada (0/42).
