IPL 2025 MI vs SRH | Jacks’ all-round show helps MI get the better of SRH

Will Jacks displayed his mastery. And the pacers effectively used a tacky pitch up front by taking pace off the ball consistently.

It culminated in Mumbai Indians registering a facile four-wicket win against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL.

Riding on Jacks’ all-round show, the home team trounced the visiting side with 11 balls to spare to start off a long weekend for Mumbaikars on a happy note at the Wankhede Stadium.

Jacks was obviously the star of the night. Having struggled to leave his footprint in MI’s blues thus far, the Englishman came good in both the departments to set up the victory.

Even before captain Hardik Pandya introduced Jacks into the attack right after the PowerPlay, Karn Sharma had headed back into the dressing room after injuring his hand while lunging forward to catch a drive off Abhishek Sharma’s blade.

Karn’s loss could well have tilted the tide in Sunrisers’ favour, especially with Jasprit Bumrah having bowled two overs in the PowerPlay.

Even though Abhishek and Travis Head were subdued — having played put together their slowest PowerPlay score (46) as a pair — they were not going to waste any time in going after Jacks.

But Jacks started off with a seven-run over. In his next, with Abhishek having succumbed to Hardik in the eighth, Jacks drew Ishan Kishan forward, spun the ball and Ryan Rickelton whipped the bails off in no time.

Jacks then struck the decisive blow that ensured MI didn’t have to chase down a big total by forcing Head to hole out to long-off.

Had it not been for Aniket Verma’s blitz at the death, Sunrisers would have struggled to cross the 160-run mark.

Impact Player Rohit Sharma produced a cameo and the MI middle-order ensured it didn’t lose the plot thereafter.

Jacks came good with the willow. Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik continued to accelerate with a combination of innovative strokeplay and power-hitting before Tilak Varma sealed the deal with a reverse-sweep off leg-spinner Zeeshan Ansari.

SCOREBOARD

SUNRISERS HYDERABAD

Abhishek Sharma c sub (Bawa) b Hardik 40 (28b, 7×4), Travis Head c Santner b Jacks 28 (29b, 3×4), Ishan Kishan st. Rickelton b Jacks 2 (3b), Nitish Kumar c Tilak b Boult 19 (21b, 1×4), Heinrich Klaasen b Bumrah 37 (28b, 3×4, 2×6), Aniket Verma (not out) 18 (8b, 2×6), Pat Cummins (not out) 8 (4b, 1×6); Extras (b-1, nb-1, w-8): 10; Total (for five wkts. in 20 overs): 162.

FALL OF WICKETS

1-59 (Abhishek, 7.3 overs), 2-68 (Kishan, 8.4), 3-82 (Head, 11.1), 4-113 (Nitish, 16.4), 5-136 (Klaasen, 18.1).

MUMBAI INDIANS BOWLING

Chahar 4-0-47-0, Boult 4-0-29-1, Bumrah 4-0-21-1, Jacks 3-0-14-2, Hardik 4-0-42-1, Santner 1-0-8-0.

MUMBAI INDIANS

Ryan Rickelton c Head b Harshal 31 (23b, 5×4), Rohit Sharma (Impact Player for Karn) c Head b Cummins 26 (16b, 3×6), Will Jacks c Zeeshan b Cummins 36 (26b, 3×4, 2×6), Suryakumar Yadav c Zeeshan b Cummins 26 (15b, 2×4, 2×6), Tilak Varma (not out) 21 (17b, 2×4), Hardik Pandya c Kishan b Malinga 21 (9b, 3×4, 1×6), Naman Dhir lbw b Malinga 0 (3b), Mitchell Santner (not out) 0 (1b); Extras (lb-1, nb-1, w-3): 5; Total (for six wkts. in 18.1 overs): 166.

FALL OF WICKETS

1-32 (Rohit, 3.5), 2-69 (Rickelton, 7.5), 3-121 (Suryakumar, 12.4), 4-128 (Jacks, 14.3), 5-162 (Hardik, 17.2), 6-162 (Naman, 17.5).

SUNRISERS BOWLING

Shami 3-0-28-0, Cummins 4-0-26-3, Malinga 4-0-36-2, Zeeshan 3.1-0-35-0, Harshal 3-0-31-1, Rahul Chahar (Impact Player for Shami) 1-0-9-0.

Toss: MI.

PoM: Jacks.

MI won by four wickets with 11 balls to spare.

MI 137/4 in 15 overs

Tilak (5) and Hardik (8) were at the crease