Hardik Pandya himself had decided to bowl in place of Jasprit Bumrah, but….
The fifth match of IPL 2024 is going on today between Gujarat Titans (GT) and Mumbai Indians (MI) at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. In this match, Gujarat Titans is being captained by Shubman Gill while Mumbai Indians are playing under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya.
In this match, Mumbai Indians won the toss and decided to bowl first and restricted the Gujarat team to 167 runs by taking 6 wickets in 20 overs. Mumbai Indians now need 168 runs in 20 overs to win the match, which means the team will have to bat at a run rate of 8.4.
Jasprit Bumrah did not bowl the first over for Mumbai Indians.
Talking about the bowling of Mumbai Indians, Hardik Pandya himself decided to bowl in place of Jasprit Bumrah. However, in the very first over, Gujarat bowlers took him to task and hit 2 fours. Hardik conceded 11 runs in the first over and it seemed that Gujarat was going to dominate the match. After that, Luke Wood came in the second over who gave 7 runs.
Everyone was waiting to know when Jasprit Bumrah, one of the best bowlers in the world, would come to bowl. But Hardik himself came to bowl with the ball. Wriddhiman Saha was just waiting for this thing. He removed Hardik’s arrogance by hitting 2 fours in the first 2 balls. Hardik gave 9 runs in this over and he gave away 20 runs in 2 overs. Here Saha was gradually dominating the bowlers. After which Hardik handed the ball to Jasprit Bumrah, who is called the ace of Mumbai Indians’ command.
Jasprit Bumrah showed Hardik who is the real boss of bowling?
Jasprit Bumrah came to bowl the fourth over for Mumbai Indians and Saha was facing him. He did not allow Saha to score runs in the first 3 balls. However, Saha tried to dominate him by hitting a four on the fourth ball, but on the last ball of the over, Bumrah uprooted Saha with a brilliant yorker. Bumrah gave 4 runs in his first over and gave the first break through to Mumbai Indians.
JASPRIT BUMRAH WITH A LETHAL YORKER…!!!pic.twitter.com/yhDn5ZnEwZ
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) March 24, 2024
After this, Bumrah was not seen bowling and he was called directly in the 13th over. In his second over, Bumrah gave only 2 runs and did not give the bowlers a chance to score runs. After that, he was given the ball again in the 17th over and in this over, Bumrah broke the back of Gujarat.
Bumrah’s third over was like this – W 1 W 0 0 1
Jasprit Bumrah put Gujarat on the backfoot by dismissing David Miller and Sai Sudarshan in his third over. Bumrah bowled his last and 19th over for the team in which he gave only 7 runs. Bumrah took 3 wickets in his 4 over spell and gave only 14 runs at an economy of 3.50.