IPL 2023: Akash Madhwal first bowler to take 5 wickets in playoffs

IPL 2023: Akash Madhwal first bowler to take 5 wickets in playoffs

5-time champion Mumbai Indians defeated Lucknow Supergiants by 81 runs in the eliminator match of Indian Premier League-2023. With this victory, Rohit Sharma's team has entered the Qualifier-2 of the current season of the league. In Qualifier-2, Mumbai will face defending champions Gujarat Titans on May 26 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.

Batting first after winning the toss at the Chepauk Stadium in Chennai, Mumbai scored 182 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Lucknow was all out for 101 runs in 16.3 overs.

Madhwal took 5 wickets for 5 runs

Akash Madhwal of Mumbai took 5 wickets for just 5 runs. This is the best bowling figure of the IPL playoffs, before that this record was in the name of CSK's Doug Ballinger. Ballinger took 4 for 13 against Delhi in 2010. Madhwal also bowled the fifth best spell of IPL. Before him, Anil Kumble took 5 wickets for 3 runs against Rajasthan in 2009, while Adam Zampa, Sohail Tanvir and Alzarri Joseph took 6-6 wickets in the same match. Joseph took 12 wickets, Tanveer 14 and Zampa took 19 wickets.

• Surya-Green partnership won the toss and elected to bat first, Mumbai lost 2 wickets for 38 runs. From here Cameron Green and Suryakumar Yadav shared a 66-run partnership off 38 balls. Green scored 41 and Surya scored 33 to keep Mumbai's scoring rate close to 10 runs per over.

• Impact player Nehal Wadhera's innings Nehal Wadhera came to the crease as an impact player in the 17th over from Mumbai. He took Mumbai's score to 182 in just 12 balls with the help of 2 fours and 2 sixes in an innings of 23 runs.

• LSG lost 8 wickets in scoring 32 runs Chasing a target of 183 runs on Chepauk's slow pitch, LSG's score was 69 for 2 at one time. Krunal Pandya and Marcus Stoinis were the set batsmen, but the team lost the remaining 8 wickets to score the next 32 runs. Akash Madhwal took a total of 5 wickets, while 3 batters were runout.

Lucknow lost after losing 8 wickets for the last 32 runs

Chasing a target of 183 runs, Lucknow got off to a steady start but kept losing wickets in the middle overs and fell 81 runs short of the score. Electing to bat after winning the toss, Cameron Green scored 41 off 23 balls for Mumbai, while Suryakumar Yadav scored 33 runs. In the last, Nehal Wadhera played an explosive inning of 23 runs off 12 balls. He scored 2 fours and 2 sixes.

Naveen-ul-Haq took 4 wickets for 38 runs. Yash Thakur got two successes.

In the counter-innings, Marcus Stoinis scored 40 and Kyle Meyers scored 18 runs from Lucknow. The remaining batsmen of the team could not score more than 15 runs. In bowling, Akash Madhwal took 5 wickets by giving 5 runs. Chris Jordan and Piyush Chawla got one wicket each

LSG lost 8 wickets in scoring 32 runs

After a steady start in the powerplay, Piyush Chawla got Krunal Pandya caught out in the 9th over. In the very next over, Akash Madhwal removed Ayush Badoni and Nicholas Pooran. After Chawla and Madhwal, Marcus Stoinis and Krishnappa Gautam were run out in the next two overs. The team's score went from 2 for 69 to 7 for 92. On the score of 100 runs, Madhwal made Ravi Bishnoi walk. Deepak Hooda was run out in the same over. The team also lost the last wicket on the score of 101.