NEW DELHI: Five-time champions registered their first victory after losing three matches in IPL 2024 with a 29-run win against Delhi Capitals at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.
Romario Shepherd smashed a 10-ball 39, Tim David scored a 21-ball 45, Ishan Kishan hit a 23-ball 42 and captain Hardik Pandya contributed with a 33-ball 39.
But it was former captain Rohit Sharma who top scored for the team with a 27-ball 49 as MI scored 234/5.
Rohit hit 3 sixes and 6 fours in his knock and sure enough his contribution was acknowledged in the MI dressing room after the match.
A video shared by MI on X shows their head coach Mark Boucher announcing an award for "senior statesman" Rohit for his knock as his teammates clap and cheer.
After receiving the award, Rohit said, "I thought it was a wonderful batting performance. It's something that we all have been striving for from game one. Goes to show that, individual performances don't matter if the whole batting group can stand up and put their hand up and take a look at the team's goal, we can achieve that kind of a total. So, I think you know there is something that we have been talking about for a long-long time and it is something that the batting coach Mark (Boucher) and the captain wants. So it is wonderful to see that and like you said that may continue."
MI's total was their third highest in IPL history and their top-most at the Wankhede. It was also the highest team total in T20s where no player scored a fifty.
1/10:Romario Shepherd blasts 32 in final over as Mumbai Indians take first IPL win
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2/10:Shepherd carnage
<p>Romario Shepherd smashed 32 runs off the 20th over for Mumbai Indians to set up their first victory of this IPL season as they beat Delhi Capitals by 29 runs on Sunday.<br /></p>AFP
3/10:Shepherd storm strikes Wankhede
<p>The West Indies big-hitter crashed a 10-ball 39 in an unbeaten stand of 53 off 13 deliveries with Tim David, who struck 45, to steer Mumbai to 234 for 5 at their home Wankhede Stadium.<br /></p>AFP
4/10:DC at bottom of the table
<p>Delhi finished on 205 for 8 despite Tristan Stubbs' unbeaten 25-ball 71. They slumped to the bottom of the 10-team table.<br /></p>TOI Sports
5/10:A win after hat-trick of defeats
<p>Five-time IPL winners Mumbai bounced back from their opening three losses in a relief for skipper Hardik Pandya, who has been booed by the fans on all venues after he replaced Rohit Sharma as captain ahead of this edition.<br /></p>PTI
6/10:Nortje taken to cleaners
<p>David smashed a six and four at the end of the 19th before Shepherd walloped Anrich Nortje for four sixes and two fours in the last over as Mumbai took 42 runs from the final eight balls.<br /></p>IANS
7/10:Perfect start
<p>Rohit (49) and Ishan Kishan (42) lay the foundations for the total in an 80-run opening stand before Axar Patel sent the two back in the pavilion with his left-arm spin.<br /></p>PTI
8/10:Suryakumar disappoints on return
<p>Returning batsman Suryakumar Yadav, who missed the first three losses to an injury lay-off, survived a toe-crushing yorker by Nortje on his first ball and then miscued the next delivery to mid-on for a two-ball duck.<br /></p>ANI
9/10:Hardik, David rescue act
<p>Mumbai lost another wicket before Pandya and David put on 60 to steady the innings and take the attack to the opposition ahead of Shepherd's explosive knock.<br /></p>AFP
