Green’s ton keeps Mumbai Indian’s hopes alive

Rohit Sharma backed his side’s strengths and history and opted to chase, bringing in Kumar Kartikeya’s left-arm spin for Sunrisers Hyderabad’s middle order dominated by right-hand batters. Markram, in turn, gave opportunities to the likes of Mayank Agarwal and Vivrant Sharma, both of whom added 140 runs for the first wicket and set up SRH to 200, a near-par total that was perhaps never going to be enough on Wankhede’s true pitch. And so it proved against the inexperienced bowling attack of SRH as Cameron Green completed a 47-ball hundred with the winning single and kept Mumbai Indians in the hunt for playoffs.

Brief scores:

Sunrisers Hyderabad  200/3 (Mayank Agarwal 83; Akash  Madhwal 4-27) lost to Mumbai Indians 201/2 in 18 overs (Cameron Green 100*, Rohit Sharma 56) by 8 wickets