Write a report on the recent win of Mumbai city in the Indian
premiere League.
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Mumbai Indians 132 for 4 (Suryakumar 71*, Kishan 28, Tahir 2-33) beat Chennai Super Kings 131 for 4 (Rayudu 42*, Dhoni 37*, Rahul Chahar 2-14) by six wickets
Mumbai Indians have beaten Chennai Super Kings for the third time in three meetings this season. They've beaten Super Kings on their home ground, the MA Chidambaram Stadium, for the sixth straight time in all competitions.
Let's put that record in context. Between them, all the other IPL teams, put together, have come here 49 times and picked up ten wins.
The latest chapter in Mumbai's psychological stranglehold over Super Kings came via a comfortable six-wicket win on a pitch affording sharp turn throughout. Both teams went in with three spinners - a legspinner, and offspinner and a left-arm orthodox spinner each - and Mumbai's trio outperformed Super Kings' on the day. While the pitch wasn't straightforward to bat on, 131 seemed a below-par total considering Super Kings only lost four wickets, and an unbeaten 71 from Suryakumar Yadav steered Mumbai home with nine balls remaining.
Super Kings' Powerplay woes continue
Both captains said at the toss that they wanted to bat first, and the coin fell in MS Dhoni's favour. Super Kings came into the match with the worst Powerplay average (20.38) and scoring rate (6.30 per over) of any team this season, and they proceeded to slip up once again.
Rahul Chahar is pumped after dismissing M Vijay BCCI
Mumbai used all three of their spinners in the Powerplay, bowling them for four out of six overs, and they took out Super Kings' top three. Faf du Plessis picked out backward point with a cut, while Suresh Raina and Shane Watson fell trying to hit against the turn when the length wasn't in their favour; on this pitch, it was only really a percentage shot if the batsman got to the pitch of the ball or if it was a rank long-hop.
Watson fell off the last ball of the Powerplay, and Super Kings were 32 for 3.
Did Super Kings go too far into their shell?
By the end of the 12th over, the right-handed fourth-wicket pair of M Vijay - brought in for the injured Kedar Jadhav - and Ambati Rayudu had put on 33 in 36 balls. They took no real risks even against the seamers or the offspinner Jayant Yadav, who between them bowled four of those six overs and conceded exactly a run a ball.
Vijay was out first ball of the 13th over, stumped attempting to step out and hit Rahul Chahar inside-out. That brought Dhoni to the crease.
Dhoni and Rayudu ramped up the intent a little, hitting Jayant for a six each and then taking eight off the 15th over, bowled by Hardik Pandya. But they weren't prepared to go after the left-arm spinner Krunal Pandya or the legspinner Chahar, and they carefully played out the 16th and 17th overs, scoring a total of eight runs off them. By that point, Super Kings were 99 for 4.
The last three overs went for 32 - decent, but not the explosion Super Kings may have hoped for - with Dhoni launching successive sixes off Lasith Malinga in the 19th but Jasprit Bumrah proving harder to hit either side of it.