IPL 2018, DD vs MI: 5 Reasons why Mumbai lost against Delhi

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The 55th match of the IPL saw Rohit Sharma’s MI and Shreyas Iyer’s DD take on each other. It was a must win the game for Mumbai and they were the favourites considering their experience in such situations. DD sprung a surprise by sending Maxwell to open the batting but the move did not quite work out as he walked back after an uncharacteristic knock. But Pant once again continued his dream season with another superb inning and some late hits from Vijay Shankar took DD to 174.

Chasing 175, Mumbai got off to a fiery start by accumulating 50 runs in first 5 overs. But once the wrist spinners came in their innings went down the hill as they lost wickets regularly. Ben Cutting played an absolute blinder and almost took Mumbai over the line but it wasn’t quite enough and Mumbai lost by 11 runs.

Here are the 5 reasons for Mumbai’s loss

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#1 Weakness against wrist spin

For the second match in a row, the batsmen’s weakness against wrist spin played a vital part in their team’s defeat. In this IPL almost everyone has failed to pick the wrong’un and the googly.

In this match, the trend continued as the batsman never got to the pitch of the ball while playing the leg-spinners and it proved to be costly. Also, batsmen, these days want to hit themselves out of the situation rather than rotating the strike but this method won’t work against experienced campaigners like Mishra.

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