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Mumbai have now lost their eighth consecutive game of the Indian T20 league 2022. Whenever things seem to be at their worst for the five-time champions, they play another game this season and go on to lose that one as well. Lucknow, however, were clinical, to say the least as they won the 37th game of this edition. They beat the Mumbai-based franchise by 36 runs.
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Once again, it was KL Rahul who led from the front and looked unstoppable. He got to his second hundred of the 2022 edition. As a matter of fact, it wouldn't be an overstatement to say that he single-handedly ensured that the Lucknow-based franchise got to a respectable total. Contrary to the traditional conditions at the Wankhede, the pitch wasn't really batting-friendly. The ball wasn't coming onto the bat.
Thus, Lucknow's opener Quinton de Kock was quick to perish. Manish Pandey was struggling in the middle as he only scored 22 runs, and consumed 22 balls for the same. The Rahul-led side scored just 32 runs in the first six overs.
Barring their skipper, none of the Lucknow batters looked comfortable. Nevertheless, Rahul was at his absolute best as he scored an unbeaten 103 from 62 balls. His knock consisted of 12 fours and four sixes. This enabled Lucknow to get to 168-6 in the first innings. In the absence of Avesh Khan, it was always going to be difficult to defend this total.
Besides, Mumbai didn't lose a single wicket in the first six overs. However, it was their captain Rohit Sharma who was hitting all the shots as Ishan Kishan was finding it hard out there in the middle. He was dismissed after scoring a 20-ball eight. Post which, Mumbai kept losing wickets at regular intervals.
Sharma failed to convert his starts as he too was dismissed after scoring 39 from 31 balls. Tilak Varma then entertained the fans with some huge sixes, but even that couldn't seal the deal for the Mumbai-based franchise. At the end, they fell short of their target by 36 runs. Several people took to Twitter to speak about the game.
Here are some of the Tweets from today's game:
KL is getting better & better with captaincy
— Pratik (@Prat1k_) April 24, 2022
This is now turning out to be the biggest nightmare for the Mumbai Indians.. For such a dominating and a successful franchise, this season has been absolutely shattering... Can feel for their fans... Trust me this franchise will bounce back big time in years to come.. #MIvLSG
— Aviral Rai (@cric_fan23) April 24, 2022
Back to back 100s by KL RAHUL against #MumbaiIndians #MIvsLSG
— Sushant Mehta (@SushantNMehta) April 24, 2022
Fcking King KL.
— arfan (@Im__Arfan) April 24, 2022
Went from 29*(30) to 101*(60). What a player.
No doubt Rohit Sharma has underperformed in IPL in last few seasons, but opening with Ishan kishan is one of the main reasons. You don't watch cricket if you don't accept it.
— ANSHUMAN🚩 (@AvengerReturns) April 24, 2022
Time for someone to tell Rohit the Hitman " Jake captaincy kar, Dream 11 pe team hum banate hain " 🤔
— Suresh Menon (@sureshnmenon) April 24, 2022
Mumbai are so bad Lucknow gave them a charity over and their best batsman still managed to get out
— Dave (@CricketDave27) April 24, 2022
What a downfall for MI
— LSG/PBKS/KKR (@AhluwaliaAmrit) April 24, 2022
Definitely don't like them winning the title but IPL is not like IPL, if MI is not performing well. And this time it's like unreal performance from Mumbai. How? Is this even? Huhh come on man show some fight 🤌
— Aditi 🐰 (@Sev_Khamani) April 24, 2022
Ishan Kishan be like
— Param Jain (@pune109) April 24, 2022
Failures failures failures..
I don’t like it.. i avoid
But failures like me
I can’t avoid 🤬🤬🤬
Terrible run chase. Not one played sensibly. And pollard bhai Sirf ek hi innings Chalega kya and wo toh ayi tak nahi hai
— Shrutika // Unreliable Car Season (@Shrustappen33) April 24, 2022
They have kept on playing Kishan and Pollard with almost zero returns in exchange, Tim David surely deserves a better team than this so called #OneFamily
— Gagan Chawla (@toecrushrzzz) April 24, 2022
Mumbai Indians becomes the first team to lose the first 8 matches in IPL history.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) April 24, 2022
Tilak Verma has been the best batsman for MI this season. If not for the two run outs (which were his own fault), he would have even better stats. He has been let down by other batsmen.
— P (@ItzzzPraveen) April 24, 2022