Sports Top 10: The 33rd match of the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) was played between Punjab Kings and Mumbai Indians at Mullanpur Stadium, Chandigarh. In this match, Mumbai team saw excellent performance with both bat and ball, due to which they managed to win the match by 9 runs. Mumbai Indians, batting first in this match, scored 192 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs on the basis of Suryakumar Yadav’s half-century innings. While chasing the target, Punjab Kings team was limited to 183 runs in 19.1 overs. In this match, Mumbai captain Hardik Pandya also had to face a fine of Rs 12 lakh due to slow over rate.
Mumbai Indians won the third match this season
Under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya, Mumbai Indians team played its 7th match in IPL 2024 against Punjab Kings. In this match, Mumbai team got a chance to bat first and from their side, Suryakumar Yadav played an inning of 78 runs in 53 balls, Rohit Sharma played an unbeaten inning of 36 runs while Tilak Verma played an unbeaten inning of 34 runs, on the basis of which Mumbai won. The Indians team managed to reach the score of 192 runs in 20 overs. While chasing the target, Punjab Kings team lost 6 wickets till the score of 77, after which Ashutosh Sharma’s quick inning of 61 runs definitely made the match exciting but he could not succeed in making the team win. .
Rohit Sharma became the player to hit most sixes for Mumbai Indians in IPL
Rohit Sharma played an inning of 36 runs in 25 balls in the match against Punjab Kings. During this, Rohit hit 2 fours and 3 sixes. During this innings, Rohit Sharma made the record of hitting most sixes in IPL for Mumbai Indians. Rohit Sharma has hit 224 sixes for Mumbai Indians in IPL. Earlier this record was in the name of Kieron Pollard. Pollard had hit 223 sixes in the IPL for the Mumbai team.
Hardik Pandya fined Rs 12 lakh
Even though Mumbai Indians won the match against Punjab Kings by 9 runs, their captain Hardik Pandya had to face a heavy fine from BCCI. In this match, Mumbai Indians team was 2 overs behind the scheduled time in terms of over rate and due to this, Hardik has been fined Rs 12 lakh after the match for making this mistake for the first time this season.
Hardik reacted on Ashutosh Sharma’s innings
The Mumbai Indians team had made the match against Punjab Kings completely one-sided at one time with the loss of 6 wickets at the score of 77, but after this, Ashutosh Sharma, who came to bat, won the match with his inning of 61 runs. Had made it exciting, although in the end Mumbai team won this match by 9 runs. While praising Ashutosh Sharma after the match, Hardik Pandya said that the level with which he was playing and hitting every ball through the middle of the bat was impressive and his future was going to be very bright.
Rohit Sharma becomes the second player to play 250 matches in IPL
Rohit Sharma is one of the most successful players of IPL. He has won the IPL title 6 times. He has been playing in IPL since 2008. The match against Punjab Kings was the 250th match of Rohit Sharma’s IPL career. Apart from Rohit Sharma, MS Dhoni is the only player in IPL who has played 250 matches in IPL. Dhoni has played 256 matches in IPL so far.
Chennai Super Kings announced the name of replacement player in place of Dvon Conway.
Dwayne Conway, the opening batsman of New Zealand team and part of Chennai Super Kings team in IPL, is out of action this entire season due to injury. CSK has announced the name of the replacement player in his place. Chennai Super Kings have included England fast bowler Richard Gleeson in his place. CSK has to play its next match this season against Lucknow Super Giants.
Rohit told whether Kohli will open with him in T20 World Cup
Virat Kohli plays as an opener in IPL. In such a situation, many reports have claimed that the selectors can make Virat open with Rohit in the T20 World Cup. Now, in an interview given to a YouTube channel on this issue, Rohit Sharma said that we have not met regarding this yet, we have not taken any decision regarding this yet. No decision has been taken on whether Virat Kohli will open in the ICC T20 World Cup or not. In today’s time, unless you hear anything like this from me, Rahul Bhai or Ajit Bhai, everything is fake.
First T20 match between Pakistan and New Zealand canceled
The New Zealand team is currently on a tour of Pakistan, where it has come to play a 5-match T20 series against the host team. The first match of this series was to be played on April 18 at Rawalpindi ground, but due to rain, the entire match was canceled after only 2 balls were played. Now the second match of the series between the two teams will be played on the same ground on April 20.
Murali Sreeshankar out of Olympics 2024 due to injury
Long jump player Murali Sreeshankar has been ruled out of the Paris Olympics due to a knee injury during training. He will have to undergo surgery due to which he will not be able to play the entire 2024 season. Asian Games and Commonwealth Games silver medalist Sreeshankar had qualified for the Paris Olympics by winning the silver medal at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships with an effort of 8.37 metres.
There will be a match between Lucknow Super Giants and Chennai Super Kings in IPL today.
The 34th match of IPL 2024 will be played between Lucknow Super Giants and Chennai Super Kings at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. Lucknow team has played 6 matches so far this season, out of which they have won 3 and lost 3. If we talk about Chennai Super Kings, they have won 4 out of 6 matches.
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